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Investigator station 387; off Cape Negrais, Burma, southwest of the mouths of 

 the Irrawaddy River (lat. 15° 25' 00" N., long. 93° 45' 00" E.); 73-89 meters; 

 sand and coral; November 16, 1909 [A. H. Clark, 1912] (1, U.S.N.M., 34639). 



Investigator; two miles off Great West Torres Island, Mergui archipelago [A. H. 

 Clark, 1912] (3, U.S.N. M., 34938; I. M.). 



Danish expedition to the Kei Islands; Dr. Th. Mortensen; station 83; off western 

 Java (lat. 6° 42' S., long. 105° 17' E.); 45 meters; sandy mud; July 30, 1922 (1). 



Danish expedition to the Kei Islands; Dr. Th. Mortensen; Sunda Strait, be- 

 tween Java and Sumatra (lat. 6° 38' S., long. 105° 21' E.); 35 meters; sandy mud; 

 July 30, 1922 (2). 



Siboga station 33; Bay of Pidjot, Lombok; down to 22 meters; mud, coral, and 

 coral sand; March 24-26, 1899 [A. H. Clark, 1918] (1, Amsterdam Mus.). 



Geographical range. — From the Gulf of Martaban and the Andaman Islands 

 southward and southeastward to Lombok in the Lesser Sunda Islands. 



Bathymetrical range. — From 22 to 109 meters; the average of 4 records is 79 



meters. 



Genus COMACTINIA A. H. Clark 



Comatula (part) J. Muller, Monatsber. d. k. preuss. Akad. d. Wiss., April, 1840, p. 93, and following 

 authors. 



Alecio (part) J. Muller, Monatsber. d. k. preuss. Akad. d. Wiss., 1841, p. 183, and following 

 authors. 



Comatula (Alecio) J. MOllbr, Abhandl. d. k. preuss. Akad. d. Wiss., 1847 (1849), p. 250. 



Anledon (part) Verrill, Proc. Boston Soe. Nat. Hist., 1866, p. 339, and following authors. 



Aclinometra (part) P. H. Carpenter, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 9, No. 4, 1881, p. 155, and 

 following authors. 



Adinomedra von Graff, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 11, No. 7, 1883, p. 132. 



Comaster (part) A. H. Clark, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 33, 1908, p. 686. 



Phanogenia (part) A. H. Clark, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 35, 1908, p. 124. 



Comactinia A. H. Clark, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 36, 1909, p. 498 (type Alecto echinoptera J. 

 MtiUer, 1841) ; Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 22, 1909, p. 175 (referred to the Comactiniinae) ; 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 40, 1911, p. 10 (represents in the West Indies the East Indian 

 Comatula); p. 652 (no infrabasals in the young); Mem. Australian Mus., vol. 4, 1911, p. 739 

 (represents the East Indian Comatula in the Caribbean Sea); p. 741 (closely related to Com- 

 atula); Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 43, 1912, p. 389 (discussion of affinities and relationships; 

 closely allied to Comatula and Cominia which it represents in the West Indies) ; Crinoids of the 

 Indian Ocean, 1912, p. 13 (corresponds to the East Indian Comatula); Internat. Revue der 

 gesamt. Hydrobiol. u. Hydrogr., 1914, pp. 4 et seq. (represents in the Atlantic Comatula of 

 of the Indo-Pacific; range and its significance); Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Meeresfauna West- 

 afrikas, Echinod. II, Crinoidea, 1914, p. 309 (Caribbean; corresponds to the East Indian 

 Cominia and Comatula; connects the Caribbean Sea directly with the southwestern Indian 

 Ocean); Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 5, No. 1, 1915, p. 8 (mostly closely related to the 

 Australian Comatuldla; does not occur on the ea.stern shores of the Atlantic); Die Crinoiden 

 der Antarktis, 1915, p. 181 (range; represented in the Indo-Pacific by Comatula); American 

 Naturalist, vol. 49, 1915, p. 525 (bathymetrical range); p. 539 (asymmetry); Unstalked Crinoids 

 of the Siboga Exped., 1918, p. 24 (in key; range); Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 9, 1919, 

 No. 5, p. 136 (disk compared with that of Holopus); Univ. Iowa, Studies in Nat. Hist., vol. 9, 

 No. 5, 1921, p. 12 (confined to the West Indies); p. 15 (in key); p. 21 (plant-like interrelation- 

 ships of the included forms). 



Comactinia {Aclinometra) Goldring, Review of the Crinoidea Fle.xibilia, 1921, p. 3. 



