80 ECIIINODERM.A OF THE INDIAN MuSEUM, PART V'll. 



ComafNid (Aiilnomptml) hamata 1S()9. Herklots, Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde, 



vol. 9. p. 1<», |)1. i\-. 

 Actinometra albonotata 1S82. Bell, P. Z. S., 1882, p. 535. 

 Actinometra rohusta (" Liitken, MS.") 1882. P. H. Carpenter, Journ. Linn. 



Soc. (Zool.), vol. 16, p. 517. 

 Actinometra intermedia 1884. Bell, Rep. Zool. Coll. H.M.S. " Alert," p. 16(5, 



pi. xvi, figs A,B. 

 Actinometra strata 1884. Bell, Rep. Zool. Coll. H.M.S. " Alert," p. 167. 



Habitat. — Northern Australia, and northward to Singapore, the Philippine 

 Islands, Cape Bantano, Java : the Moluccas, Billiton, the China Sea, and Hong 

 Kong. 



Depth. — Littoral, and down to 12 fathoms. 



Remarks. — The specimens of Comatula Solaris from Singapore and Hong 

 Kong which I examined at the Hamburg Museum resemble the slender form of 

 Cojnatula pectinata found in the same localities, except for the much greater size 

 and the larger number of cirrus segments (21). They have not the broadly ex- 

 jianded arms and stout cirri of the Australian form (the rohusta of Liitken and 

 Carpenter) nor are the arms so flat dorsally. Both the specimens are light brown 

 with a narrow median dorsal line and borders to the arms of white. The Hong 

 Kong specimen has three cirri and the Singapore specimen two, and two stumps. 

 In both the centrodorsal is undergoing reduction. 



Von Martens has recorded this species from Zanzibar, but his record appears 

 to have been based upon a specimen of Tropiometra carinata. 



COMATULA PECTINATA. 



Asterias pectinata 1758. Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, p. 663 (type specimen, but 



not references cited). 

 Cnmatula cumivgii 1849. J. MttLLER, Abhandl. d. k. preuss. Akad. d. Wiss., 



1847, p. 255. 

 Actinometra afpnis (Liitken, MS.) 1882. P. H. Carpenter, Journ. Linn. Soc. 



(Zool), vol. 16, p. 517. 

 ''Actinometra pnrpiirea 1884. Bell. Rep. Zool. Coll. H.M.S. "Alert," p. 170. 

 Actinometra hrachiolata \S,^\. Hartlaub, Nova Acta Acad. Cerman., vol. 58, 



No. 1, p. 107. 

 Actinometra parvicirra (Part) 1804. Bell, P. Z. S., 1894, p. 394. 

 Actinometra echinoptera Brit. Mus., MS. 

 Comatnia rosularis Brit. Mus., MkS. 



Lo<.\LiTiES. — " India.'''' — One small specimen. 



Malay Archipelago. — One fine specimen with ten arms 150 mm. long and 

 cirri XI, 13-14, 10 mm. long. The arms are slightly swollen in the proximal 

 portion. 



