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lets, which guard the pore, and also extend part Avay down the sides 

 of the plates, which appear to be slightly movable. The single papula 

 is large. The other abactinal plates arc iirranged in very definite 

 series parallel to the interradial line, and in the four-rayed cotype 

 they also form longitudinal series parallel to the radial line. This 

 is true also of the type but the longitudinal series are less evident. 

 The dorsolateral plates bear a tuft of 8 to 12 radiating, slightly 

 spaced, A'ery delicate terete spinelets, either blunt with several fine 

 points, or slightly tapered and sharp. These groups are spaced about 

 one-half their own diameter and the spinelets are considerably 

 smaller than those of the pore-plates. The marginal plates are very 

 small with a marginal fringe of small spinelets. 



Actinal intermediate plates in very definite series leading from 

 the furrow to margin and also in series parallel to furrow. Each 

 plate has a comb of -1 or 5 very delicate, sharp, spinelets becoming 

 reduced to 3 distally and toward the margin. The median spinelet 

 is the longest, and slightly overlaps the base of the next comb toward 

 margin. 



Furrow spinelets 5, webbed, very slender and delicate, pointed, 

 the adoral set back from the margin slightly and about two-thirds 

 or three-fourths the length of the others, which are subequal, and 

 about twice as long as the base line of the comb. Back of the adoral 

 spinelet near the transverse margin are proximally 2 shorter, slender, 

 subambulacral spinelets, becoming 1 distally, and disappearing near 

 end of ray. * 



Type.—Csit. No. 32645, U.S.IS'.M. 



Type-locality. — Station 5146, Sulu Archipelago, off Sulade Island, 

 southwest of Jolo, 24 fathoms, coral sand, shells: 2 specimens, 1 

 imperfect. 



Distribution. — Known only from the type-locality. 



Remarks. — This species belongs to the section of the genus in 

 which there are few papular pores, in a single series on either side 

 of the median radial line. Its distinguishing peculiarity is the spe- 

 cialization of these pores, which are guarded by elevated plates form- 

 ing tubercular spinulate protuberances. The papulae themselves 

 are large. 



Anseropoda macropora is most nearly related, I think, to ^1. peta- 

 loides (Goto), Misaki, Japan. It also bears a considerable resem- 

 blance to A. tenuis (Goto), Misaki, Japan. (See Goto, 1914, pp. 

 656-662, pi. 19, figs. 282-285.) 



ANSEROPODA, species 



There is a fragment comprising the greater part of 1 ray, from sta- 

 tion 5433, off Corandagos Island, eastern Palawan, green mud, coral 

 sand. The species is new and resembles A. diaphana (Sladen) but 

 is of a stouter habit apparently. It is not possible to be sure that 



