1 36 EcHmonERMA of the Indian Mttsefm, part vn. 



Antedon palmata (part) 1888. Bell, P. Z. S., 1888, pp. 384, 387.— 1894. 



Thurston, Madras Government Museum Bulletin, No. 1, p. 28; No. 2, 



p. 114.— 1909. Bell, Trans. Linn. See. (Zool.), (2), vol. 13, part 1, p. 20. 

 Actinotnetra maculata (part) 1902. Bell, in Gardiner, Fauna and Geography 



of the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes, vol. 1, part 3, p. 225. 

 S tephanometra imlica 1909. A. H. Clark, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 22, 



p. 10. 



Habitat. — Madagascar : Seychelles : Rodriguez : north reef, Farquhar Atoll : 

 Mublas, Maldives; Male, Maldives; Hulule, Male, Maldives; Muhlos, Maldives; 

 Ceylon ; Tuticorin, Madras. 



Depth. — Littoral, and down to 34 ( ? 40) fathoms. 



STEPHANOMETRA MONACANTHA. 



Antedon protectus 1874. Lxjtken, Cat. Mus. GodeflPr., vol. 5, p. 190 {nomen 



nudum) (part).— 1879. LUtken, in Carpenter, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Zool.) (2), 



vol. 2, p. 19. 

 A7itedori palmata (part) 1888. Bell, P. Z. S., 1888, pp. 384, 387.— 1894. Thurs- 

 ton, Madras Government Museum Bulletin, No. 1 , p. 28 ; No. 2, p. 11. 

 Antedon militaris Hartlaub, MS. 

 Antedon spicata Brit. Mus., MS. 

 Antedon monacantha 1890. Hartlaub, Nachr. Ges. Gottingen, Mai 1890, p. 



179__189l. Nova Acta Acad. German., vol. 58, No. 1, p. 59, pi. iii, figs. 



33, 38. 

 Antedon flavomaculata 1894. Bell, P. Z. S., 1894, p. 400. 

 Himerometra acuta 1890. A. H. Clark, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 51, No. 8, 



p. 242. 

 atephanometra monacantha 1909. A. H. Clark, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 



vol. 22, p. 10.— Vidensk. Medd. fra den naturhist. Forening i Kobenhavn, 



1909, p. 168. 



Localities.— 0^ north-eastern Ceylon (8° 51' 30" N. lat., 81° 11' 52" E. 

 long); 28 /a<Ao?ws.— Three small specimens ; one has thirteen arms 70 mm. long, 

 and P. 10 mm. long with fifteen or sixteen segments; another is similar, with 

 sixteen arms ; the tliird has twenty arms 50 mm. long, P, having fourteen or 

 fifteen segments. 



Andaman Islands. — One specimen with nineteen arms 70 ram. long : P,, has 

 eleven or twelve segments. 



Port Blair, Andamans.~One specimen with thirty arms 90 mm. long ; P., is 

 12 mm. long with twelve or thirteen segments. 



Other Records.— Torres Straits ; New Caledonia ; Fiji ; Tonga Islands ; 

 Mortlock Island, Carohnes; Philippine Islands; Macclesfield Bank; Singapore; 

 Tuticorin, Madras Presidency; Nicobar Islands; Hulule, Male, Maldives; Male, 

 Maldives. 



