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ofascar, the Se\-chelles and Rodrisfuez to Ce\lon 
and s(jutliern India; Lesser Sun da Islands and 
n o r t h A u s t r a 1 i a) indica ^) 
c' P,. and sometimes one or more of the following pinnules resembling 
Po, though usually shorter 
d' P., and P., the only pinnules which are enlarged, stiftened and 
spine-like (Red Sea)[']; Ceylon to Singapore and 
New Guinea, and the Philippine, Caroline, Pelew, 
Admiralty, Solomon and L o }• a 1 1 y Islands) . . spicata -) 
d" P, to Pj or P. enlarged, stiffened and spine-like (Philip- 
pines to Java, the Moluccas and the Solomon 
Islands) oxyacantha 
1 . Stephanometra echinus (A. H. Clark). 
A. H. Clark. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections (Quarterly Issue), vol. 52, 1908, part 2, 
p. 218 [Hiinerometra echinus). 
Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 2,6, 1909, p. 639 (Stephanometra coronata). 
The Crinoids of the Indian Ocean, 1912, p. 132 [Stephanometra echinus); p. 133, fig. 13, 
p. 1 34 (Stephanometra coronata). 
Smithsonian ^Miscellaneous Collections, vol. 60, 1912, N" 10, p. 19. 
Stat. 40. Anchorage off Pulu Kawassang, Paternoster Islands. 12 Metres, i E.x. 
Stat. 99. 6°7'.5N., 120° 26' E. 16—23 Metres, i Ex. 
The specimen from Stat. 40 has 28 arms about 85 mm. long; the cirri are XVI, 22 — 24, 
19 mm. long; the eighth or ninth is a transition segment; Pj is 11 mm. long with 12 segments; 
Pj is 12 mm. long with 11 segments; P„ is 9 mm. long with 9 segments; P^ is 7 mm, long 
with 9 segments; P. is 5 mm. long with 9 segments, slightly stiffened. The first four pinnules 
are all stiff and spine-like, and are enlarged in proportion to their length. The colour is dull 
whitish, with narrow bands of yellow brown on the arms and cirri. 
From Stat. 99 there is a small specimen with 29 arms; it is a uniform dull light j'ellow 
in colour. 
2. Stcphano»ictra oxyacantha (Hartlaub). 
H.\RTL.\UB. Nova Acta Ksl. Leop.-Carol. deutschen Akad. der Naturforsch., vol. 58, 1891, 
N" I, p. 55, pi. 3, figs. 35, 37 [Antedon oxyacantha). 
A. H. Clark. Records of the Australian Museum, vol. 9, 1912, N" i, p. 82. 
Reichensperger. Abhandl. der Senck. naturforsch. Ges., vol. 35, 1913, Heft i, p. 102 
(Stephanometra oxyacantha). 
Enkhuizen Island, near Batavia, Java. 4 E.x. 
Stat. 99. e^'/.j N., 120° 26' E. 16—23 Metres, i Ex. 
1) H. L. Clark's record of S. nioiiacani/ia from Maer Island, Torres Strait (Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 
KO 212, 1915, p. 103) probably refers to this species. 
2) Synonyms: .-inleJon tttbcrciclata and A marginata P. H. Carpenter, and Stiphanometra stypacantha H. L. Clark. 
