198 



AET. 2. — H. MATSUMOTO 



long; arms about fourteen times as loug as the disk diameter ... . 

 ecnooniotata . 



Ainphûira koreœ Duncan. 



AmpMura Jcorece : Duncan, Journ. Lirm. Soc. Loudon, XIV, 1879, ]). 

 166. PI. X, figs. 18 & 19. 



AmiMura corece : Lyman, Kep. Challeuger, Y, 1882, p. 146. 



AmpJiipholis corece : Veeeill, Transact. Connecticut Acad., X, 1899, 

 p. 321. 



Amphiura diomedece : Lütkfn & Moetensen, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 

 XXn, 1899, p. 151, PI. Xni, figs. 1-7; Kœhlee, Exp. Siboga, XLY, Pt. 

 1, 1904, p. 86; Claek, Buli, U.S. Nat. Mus., LXXV, 1911, p. 140. 



A 



Numerous specimens ; Ofcaba, Sagami Sea ; 500 fathoms. 

 Off Manazuru Zald, Sagami ; 120-749 fathoms (Claek). Off 

 Port Arari; 400-726 fathoms (Claek). Sumga Gulf; 140-503 

 fathoms. Off Om.ai Zaki ; 475-662 fathomxs (Claek). Off eastern 

 Japan ; 39 fathoms (Claek). Sea of Japan ; 79 fathoms (Claek). 

 Kagoshima Gulf ; 58 fathoms (Claek). 



Pacific side of Central America. Malaysian waters (Kœhlee). 



That the specimens at hand 

 are referable to A. diomedece appears 

 to me certain. But an examination 

 of Duncan's description and figures 

 of A. Jwrece, which is considered by 

 several authors to belong to what 

 is now called Amphipholis, has con- 

 vinced me that Duncan's species in 

 question is merely an Amphiura s. 



Fia. S3. AmpJnura koreœ. x7. a. ^ . i t i • i i • i _ 'x.\ 



From belo.-. ?>. Ventral view of an Str., aud IS probably idcutlCal With 



oral angle, c. Ditto. ^ dlOmedeW. DUNCAN did UOt 



