70k bulletin 82, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Comanthina schlegelii. — (a) Bright yellow. 



[(6) Division series, centrodorsal and cirri light yellow, with dots of blackish 

 brown at the margins of the ossicles and between them ; most of the arms blackish 

 brown, dorsally with numerous oblong markings of light yellow along the median 

 line, some entirely light j'ellow almost to the tips; pinnules mostly blackish brown 

 dorsally, ventralh' the same basally with the tip light yellow; disk blackish brown 

 with irregular markings of light yellow. 



(c) Ventral surface of arms and pinnules various shades of dark oi-ange 

 red; the dorsal surface of the arms white, the pinnules with a row of white spots 

 dorsally and with the tips on both surfaces light straw yellow ; elongated oral 

 pinnules white dorsally and deep orange red ventrally; centrodorsal slightly 

 grayish. 



{(l) Dorsal side of arms in the proximal two-thirds white, the ventral and 

 lateral portions and the disk dark orange red; some of the pinnules dark orange 

 red, others white or very slightly pink; pinnules on basal half of arms with tips 

 of light yellow ; centrodorsal white. 



(e) Arms dorsally white at the base with a thin wash of very dark orange 

 red on the remainder of the dorsal and lateral surfaces, ventrally very light 

 yellow; pinnules dorsally light yellow, ventrally deep orange red with light 

 yellow tips; elongated oral pinnules light yellow, with spots of deep orange red; 

 centrodorsal yellow with a broad white median pentagon and spots of dark red- 

 dish orange at the angles; disk thin dark reddish orange with irregular markings 

 of very light transparent greenish yellow. 



if) Centrodorsal, cirri, and division series dull orange, the last with the 

 joints almost white; arms moderatel}' dark reddish orange; pinnules the same 

 ventrally, dorsally brighter, tipped with bright orange yellow; some of the arms 

 have areas, including also the adjacent pinnules, which are either solid white or 

 mottled white and reddish orange ; disk bright orange yellow. 



{g) Division series bright yellow; some of the arms dorsally dull orange, 

 others blackish brown; some of the arras in the distal two-thirds white, with the 

 sides of others white and the remainder light straw yellow; pinnules in general 

 corresponding to the color of the arms, but the pinnules arising from the white 

 sides of the arms are dull orange; disk and proximal third of arms ventrally light 

 straw yellow; centrodorsal and cirri white. 



{h) Centrodorsal blackish brown and white; division series blackish brown, 

 chestnut, and white, the interbrachial plating white; arms of various colors, white 

 or very light chestnut dorsally and blackish brown laterally to light yellowish 

 green dorsally and laterally with an irregular stipple of very dark orange brown' 

 ventrally some of the ai'ms are light yellowish green, others light olive, and still 

 others blackish brown; arms that are brown dorsally or laterally are darker 

 brown ventrally; on very light j^ellow or light greenish yellow arms the pinnules 

 are mostly deep orange red ventrally, the basal third stippled with light olive, 

 and slightly yellowish green dorsally; on the dark orange red portions of the 

 arms the pinnules are of the same color as the latter on both surfaces and tipped 

 with white except for a few that are all white or white mottled with dark orange 



