STARFISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE SEAS. 



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Type. — In the British Museum. 



Type-locality.— Challenger station 204, off Tablas Island, Philip- 

 pines, 100-115 fathoms, green mud. 



Z>/s^W&M^iow.— Philippine Islands, 102 to 279 fathoms, on green 

 mud, globigerina, sand, and hard bottom ; temperature range 53.3° to 

 61.3° F. 



Specimens examined. — Eighty-eight. 



Specimens of Anthenoides cristatus examined. 



station. I 



Locality. 



Depth. 



Bottom 

 temper- 

 ature. 



5117 

 5121 



5212 



5367 

 5369 

 5375 

 53S2 

 5394 

 5395 

 5454 

 5505 



5516 



5520 



5536 



Balayan Bay, Luzon • 



East coast of Mindoro, 9 miles southeast Malabrigo light 



East of Masbate Island 



North of Mindoro (Verde Island Passage) 



Northwest of MarLnduque Island 



do 



Ragay Gulf, Luzon 



Between Samar and Masbate 



do 



Albay Gulf, Luzon 



Oil northern Mindanao, 7.7 miles northwest Macabalan 



Pt. Light. 

 Off northern Mindanao, 9.7 miles northeast Pt. Tagolo 



Light. 

 OS northern Mindanao, 4.5 miles southwest Pt. Tagolo 



Light. 

 Between Negros and Siquijor 



Fath- 

 oms. 

 118 

 108 



108 



180 

 lOG 

 107 

 128 

 153 

 140 

 146 

 220 



175 



102 



279 



59.9 



54.3 

 61.3 

 53.5 



Remarks. — Anthenoides sarissa Alcock from the Andaman Sea, 130 

 to 150 fathoms, is very close to immature cristatus. The subambula- 

 cral spine is more prominent than in small cristatus^ however, and 

 the secondary abactinal plates are described as inlaid everywhere be- 

 tween the large plates, showing perhaps that they are more numerous 

 than in cristatus. The figure (Alcock, 1894, pi. 2, fig. 4a) , however, 

 does not indicate on the ray more than an adradial series. 



A small specimen has a fairly large solitary coral of the genus 

 Fldbellum partly engulfed. 



ANTHENOIDES GRANULOSUS Fisher. 



Plate 88, figs. 2, 3 ; plate 94, figs. 4, 4a-b. 



Anthenoides granulosus Fisher, 1913a, p. 647. 



Diagnosis. — Similar in general appearance to A. epixanthu* 

 (Fisher) but differing in having much more numerous and coarser 

 abactinal and marginal granules; numerous small abactinal and 

 actinal intermediate, bivalved pedicellariae ; more numerous^ adam- 

 bulacral pedicellariae, which are relatively larger; slender, and 

 slightly more numerous furrow spines, and more numerous oral 

 spines. R=79 mm., r=39 mm., R=2 r; breadth of ray at inter- 



