96 Echinoherma of the Indian Museum, part vii. 



Type Species. — Alecto parvicirra J. Miiller, 1841. 



Remarks.— The specific group Vania covers e.xactly the same ground as was 

 intended by the specific group Validia established by myself in 1909. The type 

 of Validia is Comatula rotalaria Lamarck, chosen on the basis of the description 

 of ActinomeJra rotalaria given by Carpenter in the "Challenger" Report. Exam- 

 ination of the types of Comatula rotalaria at Paris, however, has shown that it 

 is in reality the same species as the Actinometra jukesii and Act. paucici.rro. des- 

 cribed many years later ; therefore the name Validia lapses into the synonymy of 

 Comatula, though it will become available if it should ever become advisable to 

 separate the twenty-armed from the ten-armed species assigned to tiiat genus. 



COMANTHUS ANNULATA. 



Actinometra gracilis (part) LtJTKEN, MS. 



Actinometra intricata (part) 1874. LVtken, Cat. Mus. Godeffr., vol. 5, ]). 190. 



Actinometra annulata 1882. Bell, P. Z. S., 1882, p. SS.'j, pi. xxxv. 



Actinometra meyeri 1882. P. H. Carpenter, Journ. Linn. Soc. (Zool.), vol. 16, 

 p. 525. 



Actinometra valida 1888. P. H. Carpenter, " C'hallenger " Reports, vol. 26, 

 Zoology, p. 314, pi. lix, fig. 3. 



Actinometra littoral i.t 1888. P. H. Carpenter, " Challenger" Reports, vol. 26, 

 Zoology, p. 346, pi. Ixvii, figs. 1, 2. 



Actinometra parvicirra (part) 1887. Bell, Sci. Trans. Roy. Dublin Soc, (2), vol. 

 3, p. 645.— 1888. Bell, P. Z. S., 1888, p. 384.-1891. Hartlaub, Nova 

 Acta Acad. German., vol. 58, No. 1, p. 98.— 1894. Bell, P. Z. S.. 1894, 

 p. 396. — 1904. Chadwick, in Herdman, Report Ceylon Pearl Oyster 

 Fisheries, part 2, Supplementary Report xi, p. 158. — 1894. Thurston, 

 Madras Government Museum Bulletin, No. 1, p. 28. 



Comanthus intricata 1908. A. H Clark, Proc. Biol. vSoc. Washington, vol. 21, 

 p. 220. 



Locality. — Sontlipm portion of Malacca Straitn. — One specimen with fifty- 

 one arms 140 mm. long, agreeing perfectly with the type of Comanthus intricata 

 in the Copenhagen Museum, with which it was directly compared. Eleven IVBr 

 series are present; four of the IIBr series are 2, as are three or four of the 

 outer division series. One cirrus 10 mm. long, slender, with 14 segments, and 

 three very rudimentary cirri, remain. 



Other Records.— Atjeh, Burma: Tuticorin, Madras: Banda ; Cebu : 

 Philippine Islands ; Macclesfield Bank : Sulu ; Ternate : Tonga : Fiji : Solomon 

 Islands: Ceylon: St. Mathias Island: Friedriehwilhelmshaven, New Guinea: 

 Cape York : Prince of Wales Channel : Thursday Island : Torres Straits ; Bowen, 

 Queensland : northwestern Australia : Holothuria Bank. 



Depth. — Littoral, and down to 30 fathoms. 



Remarks. — An examination of the type of Professor Bell's Artinomeira 



