STAEFISHES OP THE PHILIPPINE SEAS. 361 



Japan. The specimens herewith recorded from the Philippine 

 Islands constitute a new record. 



Specimens examined. — Six : 



Station 5136, off Jolo Light, Jolo, 22 fathoms, sand, shells ; 4 speci- 

 mens. 



Tictaiian Island, east of Zamboanga, Mindanao; 1 specimen. 



Reef opposite Cebu, Cebu; 1 si^ecimen. 



CULCITA NOVAE-GUINEAE, Young. 



Two specimens of " Goniodiscus sebae^'' the young of Culcita 

 novae-guineae, are present in the collection from the following locali- 

 ties: 



Tataan, Simaluc Islands, Tawi Tawi Group, Sulu Archipelago; 



1 specimen. 



Sablayan Bay, Mindoro, 1 specimen. 



CULCITA NOVAE-GUINEAE PLANA Hartlaub. 



Culcita plana Haktlaub, 1892, pp. 74 and 84. 



Notes on Phili'ppine specimens. — In respect to the size of the papu- 

 lar areas and the breadth of the interpapular spaces some of these 

 specimens approach very closely the variety arenosa Perrier. The 

 ventral surface is almost exactly like that figured by Doderlein for 

 plana (1896, pi. 19, fig. la). A peculiarity of these specimens is 

 the fact that the spaces between the papular areas are almost wholly 

 without spines, but are covered with a very fine uniform granulation, 

 among which are minute 2-ja^ed pedicellariae, a little larger to 

 twice as large as the granules. In the roundish papular areas, 

 which frequently touch, are unequally spaced rather few short coni- 

 cal spinelets, surrounded by granules slightly larger (or at least 

 longer) than those of the interpapular areas. On the margin, which 

 is high, there are usually a very few widely spaced short conical 

 spinelets on the interpapular spaces, but these are lacking on the 

 dorsal surface, except in a very large specimen from Cataingan Bay, 

 Masbate. Here the spinelets are small and very widely spaced, and 

 absent from a part of the disk. 



Distrihution. — Doderlein gives Sumatra to Samoa as the distri- 

 bution of this form; Hartlaub gives Samoa, Viti, New Guinea, 

 Philippines, Amboina, and Mauritius. 



Specimens examined. — Four : 



Station 5145, off Jolo Light, Jolo, 23 fathoms, coral sand, shells; 



2 specimens. 



Station 5160, off Tinakta Island, Tawi Tawi Group, Sulu Archi- 

 pelago, 12 fathoms, sand; 1 specimen. 



Cataingan Bay, Masbate, 1 specimen (E=130 mm.). 



