268 KCHINODERMA OF THE InDIAN MusEUM, PART Vll. 



nearly tlie same size instead of large and small altei'nating, and in having the low 

 broad rounded ridges reduced to a single laterally elongate median tubercle, 

 which may be more or less divided in the centre ; the produced angles also are a 

 trifle more produced and less strongly rounded. The interncdals number eight 

 or nine. The entire stem is 21.5 mm. long with nineteen internodes. The cirri 

 are 45 mm. long. 



The arms appear to resemble those of typical M. halheri, but are rather 

 stouter: the IBr series are all 4 ( 1 -(- 2) ; the arm-^ are about eighty in number 



Fig. 59. — Meiacriniis halheri, var. 

 The stem. 



(eight on the only perfect IIBr series) and are approximately 140 mm. long from 

 the radials, or 50 mm. long from the radials to the axillaries of the outer IVBr 

 series. 



The colour in sph'its is white. 



Locality — Gas par Strait ; 3() falhoinis. — One fragmentaiy specimen. 



METACR 1 i\ US CINGU L ATUS . 



Metacriihiis ciiif/iilahis 1SS4. P. H. Carpenter, " ('hallenger " Reports, vol. 11, 

 Zoology, p. 347, pi. xl • pi. xli. tigs. 1-4. 

 Habitat. — Ki Islands; Timor. 

 Depth. — 204-520 meters. 



