NO. 1937. VRlNOIDti OF THE BERLIN MUSEUM— CLARK . 397 



longer proximal segments are half again as long as their proximal 

 diameter, and have a shghtly concave ventral profile so that then* 

 ends are prominent; the 10 outer segments are about as long as 

 broad, and the distal, especially the last three or four, are rather 

 strongly carinate dorsally; the opposing spine is prominent, subter- 

 minal; the terminal claw is stout, rather short, and strongly curved. 



The 28 arms are about 100 mm. long; all but one of the rays bear 

 external IIIBr series; the exception to this regular order has the 

 TTBr and the IIIBr series missing on one side. 



Pj is slender and flagellate, 7 mm. long with about 17 segments; 

 P3 is stiff and spine-hke, 12 mm. long with 11 segments; P^ is 10.5 

 to 11 mm. long with 10 segments, very slightly more slender than 

 P.; P4 is 7.5 to 8 mm. long with 9 or 10 segments, much smaller than 

 1\ though more or less like it distally; Pg is 4.5 to 5 mm. long with 

 10 segments, slendCr and weak; the following pinnules are short and 

 soft with short segments. 



STEPHANOMETRA TENUIPINNA (Hartlaub). 



Antedon tenuipinna Hartlaub, Nachr. Ges. Gottingen, Mai, 1890, p. 178. 



1. New Britain; Dr. O. Finsch; Cat. No. 5374. — One specimen, 

 the t3rpe of the species. (See Die Comatulidenfauna des Indischen 

 Archipels, p. 54, pi. 3, figs. 28, 30, and 34.) 



Family PONTIOMETRID.E. 



PONTIOMETRA ANDERSON! (P. H. Carpenter). 

 fFor the synonymy , see Vid. Medd. Naturh. For. K0benhavn, 1909, p. 165.] 



1. Singapore; Prof. E. von Martens; Cat. Nos. 5351 and 5372. — 

 Two cirri and a detached visceral mass. 



Family IVIARIAMETRID^. 



SELENEMETRA FINSCHU (Hartlaub). 



Antedon finschiiHARTLAVB , Nachr. Ges. Gottingen, Mai, 1890, p. 176. 



1: New Britain; Dr. O. Finsch; Cat. No. 2602.— Two specimens, 

 the types of the species. (See Die Comatulidenfauna des Indischen 

 Archipels, p. 47, pi. 3, fig. 32.) 



DICHROMETRA PROTECTUS (LUtken). 

 [For the synonymy, see The Crinoids of the Indian Ocean.] 



1. Tonga Islands; Museum Godeffroy; Cat. No. 3047. — Tliree 40- 

 armed specimens. 



2. New Guinea; Cat. No. 2981. — Seventeen medium-sized and 

 small specimens. The largest has 51 arms about 80 mm. long; most 

 of the specimens have about 40 arms. 



3. Java; Herr Jagor; Cat. No. 1845. — One small specimen. 



