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Comactinia meridiondlis. — (a) Light yellow. 



{h) Dark yellow. 



(c) Arms light yellow, the pinnules deep carmine, usually tipped with yellow. 



{d) Dark rose pink, the pinnules pale yellow banded with burnt sienna, the 

 cirri pale yellow. 



(e) Rich carmine. 



(/) Rich carmine with yellow spots, the pinnules orange yellow. 



((7) Deep carmine, the pinnules orange with red and yellow spots and tipped 

 with yellow. 



(A) Bright purple, the pinnules brighter purple. 



(z) Deep mauve, the pinnules very pale straw yellow banded with grayish 

 purple. 



Subfamily CoMASTERiNiE. 



Comaster fruticosus. — Brownish yellow. 



Comaster taviana. — Chrome yellow ventrally, the dorsal skeleton yellowish 

 white. 



Comaster parvus. — Deep black, the tips of the pinnules yellow. 



Comaster serrata. — Dull greenish yellow. 



Comaster viinima. — Chrome yellow, with numerous longitudinal narrow lines 

 on the radials and division series, and transverse lines on the arms, of dark brown. 



[^Corrmster belli. — Deep purplish blue, the pinnules purple, the cirri lemon 

 yellow.] 



[^Comaster novwguineai. — (a) Arms olive; pinnules blue, darker on the oral 

 surface; disk dark blue; centrodorsal olive; cirri blue, darker toward the ends, 

 with silver tips. 



(&) Very dark dirty brown ventrally; dorsally very dark chocolate with 

 burnt orange at the margins of the brachials and also small dots on the brachials 

 and the pinnulars; centrodorsal dark chocolate with a white dot in the center and 

 a few dots of burnt orange around it. 



((?) Arms dorsally black brown except toward the base; pinnules the same, 

 with long yellow tips; centrodorsal with a black brown margin and brown over 

 silver center; cirri thin brown over silver, with silver tips. 



{d) WlioUy dark chocolate.] 



Com,anthena hriareus. — {a) Yellow and black in cross bands. 



{Tj) Dorsally dark green, with the articulations and some small spots greenish 

 yellow ; sides of the arms including the pinnules, and distally much of their dorsal 

 surface, yellowish white; centrodorsal partly white; cirri yellow: tips of the pin- 

 nules rusty red ; oral surface very dark, but finely mottled with yellow green. 



[(c) Dark burnt orange, the centrodorsal and disk lighter than the rest of 

 the body. 



{d) Dark wine red with just a suggestion of very dark brown; division series 

 dark and dirty brown, as if abraded. 



(e) Dark wine red. 



