84 ECHTNOnKRMA OF THE TnPIAN MuSETTM, PART VII. 



resembles the one from Fiji in the Copenhagen collection described by myself , 

 it has from four to six post-radial axillaries ; four of the IIBr series are 2 and six 

 are 4 (3+4). 



COMASTER GRACILIS. 



Artinonif-trfi sfellala (part) LltTKEN, MS. 



Actlnonietra gracilis 1890. Hartlaxjb, Nachr. Ges. Gottingen, ^Nlai 1890. p. 187. — 



1891. Nova Acta Acad. German., vol. 58, No. 1 . p. Ill, pi. v, fig. 5.5. 

 Actinomeira iridistichata Bell, MS. 

 Aciinometra sp. 1894. Bell, P. Z. S., 1894, p. 402. 

 Actinomeira typic.a 1899. Bell, Willey's Zoological Results, part ii, p. 134- 



1902. In Gardiner. Fauna and Geography of the Maldive and Laccadive 



Archipelagoes, vol. 1, part 3, p. 225. 

 Anledon indica 1902. Bell, in Gardiner, Fauna and Geography of tiie Maldive 



and Laccadive Archipelagoes, vol. 1, part 3. p. 224. 

 ComaMcr gracilis 1908. A. H. Clark, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 33, p. 086. 



Locality. — Port Blair ^ Aridaman Islands. — One small specimen, resembling 

 others at liand from Singapore and the Philippine Islands. 



Other Records. — Pulo Edam. China Sea; Singapore; Phihppine Islands; 

 Cebu ; Macclesfield Bank ; Fiji; Blanche Bay, New Britain; Hulule. Maldives. 



Depth. — Littoral, and down to 30 fathom's. 



COMASTER FRUTICOSUS. 



Coviasicr fruticosus 1910. A. H. Clark, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 39, p. 532. 

 Habitat. — Philippine Islands. 

 Depth. — 58 fathoms. 



COMASTER MULTIFIDA. 



Coniattila multiradiata 181(i. Lajl\rck, Hist. nat. des animaux sans vertebres, 



vol 2, p. 533. 

 Ahcto vudtifida 1841. J. Miiller, Archiv fiir Naturgesch., 1841, i, p. 147 (based 



upon one of Lamarcic's specimens). 

 Actinomeira variabilis 1884. Bell, Rep. Zool. Coll. H.M.S. ''Alert." p. 1(59, pi. 



xvii, figs. B, Ba. 

 Con/aster carpenteri 1908, A. H. Clark, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 33, p. 08(1. 



Habitat. — Northern Australia ; Thursday Island. 



Depth. — Littoral, and down to 38 fathoms. 



Remarks. — An examination of the type of this species, preserved in the 

 Paris Museum, and of the types of Aciinometra variabilis in the British Museum, 

 shows that they are in reality representatives of the same species. 



Professor Doderlein in his paper upon a collection of comatulids from Am- 

 boina and Thursday Island has confused tliis species with Comanthina belli ; in 



