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The example from Stat. 299 has 20 arms 65 mm. long; all the IIBr series are present, 
and all are 4 (3 + 4); the cirri are XVII, slightly more slender than usual. 
3. Cotnanthus {yania) annidata (Bell). 
LOtken. Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 5, 1874, p. 190 [Actinoinetra intricata^ part). 
Bell. Proc. Z06I. Soc. London, 1882, p. 535, pi. 35 {Actinometra annulata). 
P. H. C.VRPENTER. Journ. Linn. Soc. (Zoo!.), vol. 16, 1882, p. 525 (Actinometra vieytri). 
Bell. Sci. Trans. Roy. Dublin Soc. (2), vol. 3, 1887, p. 645 [Actinometra parvicirra, part). 
Proc Zool. Soc. London, 1888, p. 384 [Actinometra parvicirra, part). 
P. H. Carpenter. "Challenger" Reports. Comatulae, 1888, p. 314, pi. 59, fig. 3 [Actinometra 
valida); p. 338 [Actinometra parvicirra, part); p. 346, pi. 67, figs, i, 2 [Actinometra littoralis). 
Ham ANN. Jenaische Zeitschr., vol. 23, 1889, p. 234 [Actinometra valida). 
Hartl.vub. Nova Acta der Leop.-Carol. deutschen Akad. der Naturforsch., vol. 58, 1891, 
■ N" I, p. 98 [Actinometra parvicirra, part). 
Bell. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1894, p. 396 [Actinometra parvicirra, part). 
Thurston. Madras Government Museum Bulletin, N" i, 1894, p. 28 [Actinometra parvicirra, part), 
Pfeffer. Senck. Ges. Abhandl., vol. 25, 1900, p. 85 [Actinometra litoralis). 
Chadwick. in Herdman, Report Ceylon Pearl Oyster Fisheries, part 2, 1904, Suppl. Rep. XL 
p. 158 [Actinometra parvicirra, part). 
A. H. Clark. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 21, 1908, p. 220 [Comantlius intricata). 
Vidensk. Medd. fra den naturhist. Forening i Kpbenhavn, 1909, p. 143 [Comantlius 
[Comant/ius] valida). 
• Die Fauna Siidwest-Australiens, vol. 3, 191 1, Lief. 13, p. 457. 
Memoirs of the Australian Museum, vol. 4, 191 1, part 15, p. 757. 
Proc. U. S. National Museum, vol. 39, 191 1, p. 536. 
Records of the Australian Museum, vol. 9, 1912, p. N" i, p. 82. 
Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, vol. 60, 1912, N" ID, p. 9. 
Proc. U. S. National Museum, vol. 43, 191 2, p. 392. 
Crinoids of the Lidian Ocean, 191 2, p. 96. 
Die Fauna Siidwest-Australiens, vol. 4, 191 3, Lief. 6, p. 309. 
Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, vol. 61, 1913, N" 15, p. 17. 
Records of the Western Australian Museum, vol. i, 1914, part 3, p. 120 [Comantlius 
[ Vania] annulata). 
H. L. Clark. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication N" 212, 191 5, p. loi {Co- 
mantlius annulatum); p. 102 [Comantlius annulatmn xanthum). 
Stat. 43. Anchorage oft' Pulu Sarassa, Postilion Islands. Down to 36 Metres, i Ex. 
Stat. 50. Bay of Badjo, western coast of F lores. Down to 40 Metres, i Ex. 
Stat. 89. Pulu Kaniungan ketjil. 11 Metres. 17 Ex. 
Stat. 149. Fau anchorage and lagoon, western coast of Gebe Island. 31 Metres, i Ex. 
Stat. 209. Anchorage off the south point of Kabaena Island. Reef i Ex. 
Stat. 213. Saleyer. i Ex. 
Stat. 273. Anchorage off Pulu Jedan, eastern coast of the Aru Islands (Pearl Banks). 13 
Metres, i Ex. 
Stat. 322. One and one half miles south of Tandjong Lajar, south coast of Bawean Island. 
32 Metres. 2 Ex. 
The example from Stat. 43 has 40 arms which are about 100 mm. long; all the division 
series are 4 (3 + 4); the centrodorsal is pentagonal, sunken nearly to the level of the dorsal 
surface of the radial pentagon, with a few obsolete cirrus sockets on the margin. 
The specimen from Stat. 50 has 39 arms 120 mm. long; all the division series are 
