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but he gave manuscript names to many of the new species that he found in the 

 coUcction of the Paris Museum, and these names were later adopted by Johannes 

 Muller. Gay said that IIup6 had assisted him in the preparation of his work on the 

 zoology of Chile, and Dr. R. A. Phihppi ' indicated that IIup^ was chiefly responsible 

 for this portion of the work. Gay's description of Comatula picta, therefore, was 

 presumably drawn up by Hup6. But if this is true it seems strange that he should 

 have referred to picla as merely a manuscript name in Dujardin and Hup6, 1862. 

 Gay described Comatula picta as follows: 



C. radiis incrassatis, pinnatis, decern, dorso obsoletS carinatis et tuberculatis; cirrhis dorsalibus 

 24; brachiis in piunulis rubro et fusco articulatis. 



C. picta Val., Coll. du Mus. 



Especie de radios espesos, articulados, en niimero de diez, cargados dc pfnulas bastante delga- 

 das; estos radios llevan en el medio de su faz dorsal una carena poco marcada, sobre la cual existe 

 una serie de tuberculillos salientes y puntuados. Los brazos 6 las cirras dorsales son delgados, 

 articulados, desiguales y en niimero de veinte y cuatro. Toda la extension del brazo y de las cirras 

 dorsales esti como articulada por manchas anulares, anternativamente encarnadinas y pardas. 



Esta linda especie de Comdtula es hasta cierto punto vecina del C. carinata Lamk. Sus brazos 

 6 radios son espesos y carnudos como en esta especie, pero difiere de ella por su coloracion sumamente 

 elegante, que consiste en manchas anulares de un bruno encarnadino el cual cubre toda la estension 

 de los radios y de las pinulas. Se halla en Chile. 



Under Comatula carinata Dujardin and Hup^ in 1862 published a translation 

 of the redescription given by Miiller in 1843. They included Leach's Alecto carinata 

 in the synonymy, and referred to Griffith's plate 8. The diameter of the animal 

 they gave as 216 mm. The habitat was given as lie de France. In a list of manu- 

 script names found with specimens in the Paris Aluscum they included Comatula 

 bicolor and C. picta. 



In a hst of Caribbean crinoids pubhshed in 1867 Prof. Addison Emery Verrill 

 included Antedon braziliensis Liitkcn from Rio de Janeiro. In a paper on the corals 

 and echinoderms collected at the Abrolhos reefs, Province of Bahia, Brazil, by Prof. 

 C. F. Hartt in 1867, pubhshed in Februaiy 1868, Professor Verrill said, under the 

 heading Antedon dubenii, that one specimen, apparently identical with this species, 

 was obtained at the Abrolhos. Its color is deep purple with large spots of yellowish 

 white on the sides of the rays. It is very different from a specimen of A. braziliensis 

 Lutken, from Rio de Janeiro sent to the Museum of Yale College by Dr. Liitken with 

 which he compared it. 



Prof. Edouard von Martens in 1869 mentioned Comatula carinata from the Mas- 

 carene Islands (=Mauritius), and recorded Comatula Solaris from Zanzibar. This 

 last was in reality the present species. 



In the article published on January 4, 1877, Dr. P. H. Carpenter said that de 

 Fr^minviUe's Antedon gorgonia is probably the same as Lamarck's Comatula carinata. 

 It is, however, a synonym of Antedon bifida. 



In a paper on the corals and crinoids collected by the United States Coast Survey 

 steamer Blake, pubhshed on December 14, 1878, Count L.'F. de Pourtal^s wrote 

 (under the heading Antedon mcridionalis) that a species common on the coast of Brazil 

 answers to the description of Comatula carinata. He said that this species is quoted 

 as from Mauritius, and the Museum of Comparative Zoology has specimens from Zan- 



I Verb, deutschen WIss. Ver. Santiago (Chile), vo). 2, No. 4, 1892, p. 24«. 



