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(m) Ground color velvety brownish black; arms marked with pure white; 

 under side of pinnules white. 



{71) Ground color black, covered with spots of yellowish green; a black line 

 down the center of each arm. 



(o) Central portion black, the outer portions of the arms shading into dull 

 yellowish green. 



(p) Central portion on both surfaces, arms, and pinnules deep black, the arms 

 in the terminal half with markings of very light straw yellow and certain of the 

 pinnules deep blood red on the aboral side toward the base; cirri with a dark 

 brown wash over silver. 



(g) Entirely black.] 



Comatella stelligera. — (a) Violet brown, becoming more reddish toward the arm 

 tips, with a broad band, over an inch wide, of green, becoming greenish yellow in 

 the center, in the middle of the arm; brachial perisome in the outer part of the 

 arm bright red. 



[(&) Bright yellow, with a deep green center. 



(c) Green, the pinnules with yellow tips. 



{d) Yellow green and blackish. 



(e) Greenish gray, browner orally. 



(/) Kich red purple. 



{g) Deep purple red. 



(A) Ked purple, the pinnules with yellow tips. 



(z) Very deep red purple, the pinnules with yellow tips. 



{)) Deep purple, the pinnules witli yellowish green tips. 



{k) Deep purple, the pinnules rusty red in marked contrast. 



(Z) Red purple, green and yellow. 



(m) Purple and green, with the tips of the pinnules rusty. 



(n) Uniformly black.] 



Comatella decora. — Bright yellow, the ventral perisome slightly brownish. 

 A very small specimen clear yellow, the cirri white. 



Capillaster rnarice. — Brownish yellow, the pinnules grayish. 



Capillafiter muUiradiata. — {a) White, with a broad band of dark maroon about 

 an inch wide just beyond the middle of the arm, and maroon marblings on the 

 disk. 



(6) Dorsal surface brown, the articulations much darker, heavily silvered 

 or frosted with white, which extends also over the cirri ; oral surface black. 



[(c) Dark wine red, with brown. 



{d) Arms maroon, with a slight reddish tinge; rest of body almost black 

 brown. 



(c) Brownish wine color. 



(/) Arms dorsally very dark reddish chocolate, becoming darker basally; 

 ventral surface and dorsal surface of pinnules black chocolate; centrodorsal the 

 same; cirri the same with silver tips, some with whitish dots in the median line 

 and others witli a drab tinge. 



