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contact; the disk is 30 mm. in diameter; the color is a uniform deep 

 yellow brown. 



3. Fuchoiv, Province of Fokien, China. — One specimen. 



COMANTHINA SCHLEGELII (P. H. Carpenter) 



Actinometra parvicirra 1891. Hartlaub, Nova Acta Acad. German., vol. 

 58, No. 1, p. 96 (1). 



1. Mortlock Island, Carolines; Capt. Pohl. — One specimen with 

 fifty-two arms about 85 mm. long-, and cirri VIII, 13-14, small but 

 typical ; four of the rays have the division series as characteristic for 

 the species; the fifth has one of the external IIIBr series 4(3 + 4) 

 instead of 2. 



2. Cebu; Capt. Ringe. — One typical specimen with a single cirrus 

 remaining. 



3. Ekalin, St. Matthias Island; reef ; Dr. G. Dunckcr. — One small 

 specimen without cirri. 



COMANTHUS BENNETTI (J. Miiller) 



Actinometra bennetti 1882. P. IT. Carpenter, Journ. Linn. Soc. (Zool.), 

 vol. 16, p. 526 (1, 2). — 1888. "Challenger" Report, Comatulse, p. 382 

 (1). — 1891. Hartlaub, Nova Acta Acad. German., vol. 58, No. 1, p. 

 95 (3). 



1. Singapore. — One magnificent specimen resembling the one from 

 the Pelew Islands in the Copenhagen Museum. 



2. No Locality. — A similar, but broken, specimen. 



3. Port Denison, Queensland {Actinometra brachymcra Liitken, 

 MS.). — One specimen. 



4. laluit, Marshall Islands; Hernsheim; September 5, 1888. — One 

 broken specimen ; the centrodorsal is large, hemispherical, 6 mm. in 

 diameter at the base; the cirri are XX, 17-20, 20 mm. long, stout; 

 the proximal segments are about as long as broad, the distal one- 

 third to one-half again as broad as long, perfectly smooth dorsally; 

 there are about sixty arms about 130 mm. long; all the division series 

 are 4(3 + 4) ; the division series are strongly rounded dorsally and 

 well separated. This appears to be a dwarf specimen. 



5. Ekalin, St. Matthias Island; reef ; Dr. G. Dnncker. — Two speci- 

 mens ; one is medium sized with about seventy arms ; the dorsal sur- 

 face of the division series and brachials is finely granular and very 

 rough ; the disk is 35 mm. in diameter ; the other is smaller, with forty- 

 eight arms about 115 mm. long; one of the IIBr series is 2, and bears 

 externally a single IIIBr 2 series. 



