i92 ACTINOMKTRA SOLARIS. 



them have beeu described above; two are at Paris, and 

 the remaining one in the University Museum at Berlin , 

 having been brought from Batjan by Prof. E. von Martens. 

 Ant. spicafa is closely allied to the Fijian Anf. protecta 

 Liitken M.8. which has nearly 50 cirrhi, smoother arm- 

 joints , and a relatively smaller pinnule on the fifth brach- 

 ial ; but the stiff and pointed lower pinnules are striking 

 features of both species. 



II. Actinometra. Muller, 1841; emend. P. H. Car- 

 penter. 1877 '). 



11. Actinotnetfu sohiris , Lam. sp. 



181G. Comatula Solaris, Lamarck. Syst. d'Anim. sans 

 Vert. IL p. 534. 



1834. Comatula Solaris, de Blainville. Manuel d'Actinolo- 

 gie. p. 249. 



1841. Actinometra imperialis , Muller. Monatsber. d. Ber- 

 lin. Akad. 1841. p. 181. 

 Wiegman's Archiv. 1841. I. p. 141. 



1843. Alexto Solaris , Muller. Wiegman's Archiv. I. p. 135. 



1849. Comatula {Actinometra) Solaris, Muller. Abhandl. 

 d. Berlin. Akad. 1849. p. 248. 



1862. Comatula Solaris, Dujardin. Hist. nat. des Zoophy- 

 tes. Echinodermes. p. 200. 



1862. Actinometra. imperialis , ibid. p. 209. 



1869 Comatula [Actinometra?) hamata , Kuhl and v. 

 Hasselt, Herklots J. A. Echinodermes peintes 

 d'après nature par les soins de Kuhl , van Has- 

 selt, et Sal. Muller. Amsterdam. Bijdragen tot 

 de Dierkunde. IX p. 10. PI. IX. 



1879. Actinometra Solaris, P. H. Carpenter. Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. , Sec. Ser. Zool. Vol. II. p. 27. 



The single specimen of this species in the Museum ap- 



I) Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. Vol XIII. p. 441. 



Sec also. Trans. Linn. Soc, Sec. Ser. Zool. Vol. II p.p. 18 — 20. 



Notes from the Leytlen IVIuseum , Vol. III. 



