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lariae, nor are the granules enlarged about the papular pores. The 

 distal inferomarginal plates are without tubercles, while the primary 

 radial plates each have a tubercle. The granulation of the actinal 

 surface is finer than in typical forficulatus; for instance, the large 

 unpaired actinal plate just back of the mouth plates has about 30 

 granules in forflculatiis and 55 or a few more in the Indian specimen, 

 in which, moreover, the outlines of the actinal plates are very indis- 

 tinct, while in the Philippine specimens they are very distinct. This 

 specimen seems to belong to a distinct variety if the Philippine ex- 

 amples are to be regarded as typical. 



Type. — In the British Museum. 



Type-locality. — Migupou (probably a Philippine locality). 



Distribution. — Philippine Islands to Gulf of Martaban, Burma, 

 and south along the east coast of India to Ceylon. 



Specimens examined. — One from each of the following localities: 

 Station 5159, off Tinakta Island, Tawi Tawi Group, 18 fathoms, fine 

 sand and shells. Station 5482, Surigao Strait, east of Leyte, 67 

 fathoms, sand, shells, gravel. 



Subfamily Anthenoidinae, new name. 



Leptogonasterinae Perbier {Leptogonaster is a synonym of Anthcnoides). 

 Genus STELLASTER Gray. 

 Stellaster Gray, 1840, p. 278. Type, Stcllaster childreni Gray. 



STELLASTER INCEI Gray. 



Plate 79, figs. IS ; plate 80, fig. 1. 



SteUaster incei Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1847, p. 76; 1866, p. 7, pi. 5, 

 fig. 1.— Sladen, 1889, p. 322.— DoDERLEiN, 1896, p. 307.— Koehleu, 

 1910a, p. 80.— Brown, 1910, p. 31.— Simpson and Brown, 1910, p. 50. 



StelMster belcheri Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1847, p. 76; 1866, p. 7, 

 pi. 7, fig. 1.— Sladen, 1879, p. 430 (Korean Straits). 



Stellaster gracilis Mobius, Neue Seesterne des Hamburger and Kieler 

 Museums, p. 12, pi. 4, figs. 3 and 4 (Abhandl. a. d. Gebiete Naturw. 

 lirsg. V. d. naturwiss. Verein, Hamburg, vol. 4, Abth. 2, 1860). 



Azotes on Philippine specimens. — Sladen considers Stellaster incei 

 and helcheri growth stages of the same species. The specimens col- 

 lected by the Albatross are mostly small, and as in the case of Dodcr- 

 lein's specimens from Thursday Island are referable to " belcheri'''* 



Among the 26 examples from station 5358, 2 have less than 4 

 tubercles, 13 have 5 tubercles, not always symmetrically arranged, 

 10 have 10 tubercles, and 1 has scars of 17, all on the radii. The 

 largest of these specimens has R=:40 mm., the smallest R=13 mm. 

 The granules are fine, bead like and spaced, and the membrane very 

 thin. The furrow comb consists of 7 or 8 rather slender spines, the 



