300 



ART. 2. — H. MATSUMOTO 



Indo-Pacific. 



The disk is very 

 convex and nearly lie- 

 mispherical. In one of 

 the specimens, the disk 

 is 14 mm. in diameter 

 and 6 mm. in height. 

 The arms are of unequal 

 length, and are two and 

 a half times to five 

 times as long as the 

 disk diameter. The 

 colour is mottled on 

 the disk, and armulated 

 on the arms, with greenish and yellowish gray. 



Fig. 81. Ophlolepis cinctn. x6. a. From above, h. 

 From below. 



OX)hiole±}is amiiilosa Müller & Troschel.'^ 



Oplimra anmdosa : Blatnyille Maun. Act., 1834, p. 244, PI. XXIV, 

 figs. l-4'>. (Non Lamarck, 1816.) 



OpJiioIepis annulosa : Müller & Troschel, Arch. Naturg., VI, 1840, p. 

 328-'; Müller & Troschel, Sys. Ast., 1842, p. 89, PL VIII, fig. 4 ; Lütken, 

 Addit. ad Hist. Oph., H, 1859, p. 101, PI. II, figs. 5a & 5b ; Lyman, 111. 

 Cat. Mus. Comp. Zool., I, 1865, p. 58 ; yon Martens, Arch. Natnrg., XXXVI, 

 1870, p. 246-); Lyman, Rep. Challenger, V, 1882, p. 19; Bell, Proc. Zool. 

 8oc. Loudon, 1887, p. 140; Bell, ibid., 1888, p. 388; Döderlein, Zool. 

 Jahrb. Sys., m, 1888, p. 831; Loriol, Mém. Soc. Pliys. d'Hist. Nat. 

 Genève XXXII, 1895, p. 10; Bell, Proc. Zool. Sor^. London, 1894, p. 

 395 ; Döderlein, Semon - Zool. Forschuugs]-, V, 1896, p. 283 ; Ludwig, Abh. 



1) Clark has recently proposed !i new name Ophlolepis siiperba for this species (Spolia 

 Zeylanica, X, 1915, p, 80). Though Biainyille's Ophiura annulosa is preöccupied by La-maeck's, 

 MuLLEB & Tkoschel's Oplùolepis annulosa is entirely free of homonyms. 



2) These papers were not seen by me. 



