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schlegclii. It thus becomes necessary to place Äctinometra belli in the 

 genus Comaster, where it finds its proper systeiuatic position near C. 

 typica. 



Cotnanthus sa^noana (A. H. Clark). 



1909. Comanthus (Coinanthus) sam.oana, A. H. Clark, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXXVII, 



p. 30 (Samoa). 

 1911. Comanthus samuona, A. H. Clark, Bull, du Mus. d'Hist. nat. Paris, No. 4, 1911, 



p. 248 (Nouvelle-Caledonie; lies Soulou). — 1912. A. H. Clark, gmithson. Collect., 



LX, No. 10, p. 9 (Tonga; Fiji; Samoa; Abrolhos Is.). — 1912. A. H. Clark, Proc. 



U. S. Nat. Mus., XLIII, p. 391 (Samoa). 



Locality: W. Australia, Houtmans Abrolhos (Mus. Perth). 



One specimen with eighteen arms about 50 mm long; the IIBr series 

 are all 4(3 + 4); the cirri are about XXV, 17, 12 mm long; the longest 

 cirrus segments (the fourth or fifth) are twice as long as broad or slightly 

 longer; the distal cirrus segments are twice as broad as long; the disk is 

 thickly covered with small but prominent calcareous nodules of approxi- 

 raately equal size. 



Flirther Distribution : Samoa; Tonga; Fiji; New Caledonia; 

 Sulu (Jolo); Ruk, Caroline Islands. 



Comanthus anmilata (Bell). 



1911. Comanthus (Vania) annnlata, A. H. Clark, in: Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens, 

 III, p. 457. 



1912. Comanthus annulata, A. H. Clark, in: Smithson. Collect., LX, No. 10, p. 9. 



Locality: Stat. 23, Sharks Bay. South Passage, 9 mm; 16.VI.05. 



Nine specimens ; one large individual has sixty-one arms 120 mm long, 

 and cirri VI, 8,5 mm long, confined to the anterior semi-circumference of 

 the centrodorsal ; all the division series are 4(3 + 4); the color is dark 

 brown, the division series and arm bases with uniformly distributed small 

 equal sized light green spots ; a second specimen has thirty-seven arms 

 120 mm long and cirri IV. 9 mm long; all the division series are 4(3+4); 

 the color is the same as in the precediug; a third has thirty-four arms 

 105 mm long, and cirri IV, 8 mm long: it is colored like the precediug; 

 a fourth has forty-one arms 75 mm long; the cirri are VIII, 14.9 mm 

 long; there are three IIBr 2 series; the coloration is as described; a fifth 

 has twenty-six arms of which the anterior are 85 mm and the posterior 

 40 mm long; the cirri are II, 6 mm long: six of the IIBr series are 2 

 and four are 4(3 + 4); the color is piain dark brown; the remaining four 

 specimens are small. 



