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In my memoir on the crinoids of Australia published on August 17, 1911, I gave 

 the synonymy of Colobometra perspinosa, including under that name Bell's Antedon 

 insignis (1882) and A. loveni (1884). I recorded and gave notes on a specimm from 

 Lord Howe Island and recorded a small arm fragment from Port Jackson, New South 

 Wales, the inlet on the southern shore of which hes the city of Sydney. Port Jackson 

 is within the range of the southeast Australian fauna and is well south of the southern 

 limit of the tropical fauna, so that this last locality record is very doubtful. In my 

 memoir on the crinoids of the Hamburg Southwest Australian Expedition published in 

 1911, I gave a summary of the range of this species in Austraha. 



In ids memoir on the comatulids of the Blake expedition published in AprU 1912, 

 Hartlaub said that he considered my segregation of a number of species of "Antedon" 

 under the generic name Cyllomeira entirely justified. He listed the species that would 

 fall under Cyllometra, as originally defined, including in the list Antedon perspinosa 

 from Tobie [=Jobi] Island, and A. insignis Bell, 1882, from Port Denison. 



In my memoir on the crinoids of the Indian Ocean published in 1912 I gave the 

 synonymy and range of Colobometra perspinosa. In the synonymy I included Bell's 

 Antedon insignis (1882) and A. loveni (1884), and my own Cyllometra belli (1907). 

 The locahties for the species I gave as Jobie, Amboina, Port Denison, and Port 

 Jackson. 



During a visit to the British Museum in 1910 I examined the type specimen of 

 Bell's Antedon insignis — the Antedon loveni of the Alert report — and in a paper on the 

 crinoids of that museum published in 1913 recorded the fact. In 1915 I discussed in 

 detail the range of this species on the Australian coasts. In my memoir on the 

 comatulids of the Siboga expedition published in 1918 I gave a synonymy of Colobo- 

 metra perspinosa and recorded specimens from stations 40, 149, and 240. 



Dr. Hubert Lyman Clark in 1921 discussed the range of this species on the coasts 

 of Australia. 



In 1940 Prof. Torsten Gisl6n gave notes on three specimens that had been col- 

 lected in Fiji in 1917 by Dr. Sbcten Bock. He noted that this find extended the range 

 of the genus considerably toward the east, no species previously having been recorded 

 from east of the Solomon Islands (C. diadema) and Lord Howe Island (C. perspinosa) . 



COLOBOMETRA PERSPINOSA var. VEPRETUM A. H. Clark 



Plati 14, Figure 70; Plate 15, Figure 71 

 [See also vol. 1, pt. 2, fig. 727 (disk), p. 346.] 



Antedon perspinosa (part) Hartlaub, Nova Acta Acad. German., vol. 58, No. 1, 1891, p. 85 (speci- 

 men from Amboina described), pi. 5, fig. 54. 



Colobometra vepretum A. H. Clark, Vid. Medd. Naturh. Foren. K0benhavn, 1909, p. 132 (forma- 

 tion of side and covering plates from the brachials by suture), p. 174 (description; Singapore), 

 p. 177 (comparison with C. perspinosa, C. suavis, and C. discolor), p. 193 (collected at Singapore 

 by Svend Gad); Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 23, 1910, p. 7 (comparison with C. diadema); 

 Notes Leyden Mus., vol. 33, 1911, p. 188 (compared with C. perspinosa); Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., vol. 43, 1912, p. 401 (Singapore); Crinoids of the Indian Ocean, 1912, p. 165 (synonymy; 

 Amboina; Singapore).— Hartmeyer, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, vol. 8, No. 2, 1916, p. 236 

 (Singapore, No. 6379).— A. H. Clark, Unstalked crinoids of the Siboga-Exped., 1918, p. 123 

 (in key; range); Temminckia, vol. 1, 1936, p. 308 (probably the same specific type as perspi- 

 nosa).— Gisi^tn, Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., ser. 3, vol. 18, No. 10, 1940, p. 14. 



