286 ECHINODERMA OF THE INDIAN MuSEUM, PART VII. 



ANTEDON sp. 



Antedun sp. 1S92. Savile-Kent, The Great Barrier Reef of Australia; its 



Products and Potentialities, p. 43, pi. xi, figs. 7, 7A. 



'■ Two other members of the same echinodermatous, or sea urchin and 

 starfish class, observed on the Palm Island reefs, are depicted in the same 

 coloured plate. These are the two Feather-starfish, Antedon sp., represented by 

 figs. 7 and 7A, clinging to the corallum of the Gorgonia in the right hand upper 

 corner. In general form they resemble the English Feather-star, Comatula 

 rosacea; but they possess about forty, in place of the ten, pinnate arms of the 

 European type. The variety of hues exhibited by the Barrier Reef species are 

 legion, running through every gradation of tint from pale yellow to rose-pink, 

 deep crimson and black, and including every conceivable intermixture of those 

 colours. One especially handsome racial variety of this feather-star, obtained at 

 Thursday Island, had its fern-like arms resplendent with shades of old-gold and 

 bronze-green." 



ANTEDON FIELDI. 



Ariferlon fiehli 1894. Bell, P.Z.S., 1894, p. 401. 



Bell's description is as follows: ''Allied to A. moorei (see p. 287) but dis- 

 tinguished from it by the broad spine on the cirrus joints. Cirri about 20, with 

 18 joints, almost completely covering the centrodorsal. No syzygy on radials or 

 distichals : the first on the third brachial. 



'" Colour bright purple with lighter cirri. 



" Macclesfield Bank, 22-30 fathoms. 



" I offer a brief diagnosis of this species, as the peculiarity of the broad 

 spines on the cirrus joints ought to be known." 



I have examined the type specimen of this species in the British Museum, 

 but have not been able to determine what it really is; it appears to be immature. 



There is a second specimen in the British iluseuni, also from the Macclesfield 

 Bank, taken in 13 fathom.s. 



ANTEDON spp. 

 Antedou 1894. Bell, P.Z.S., 1894, p. 390. 



Profes.sor Bell lists two 'Antedon sp. n. inq." from the Macclesfield Bank, 

 taken at unknown depths. 



ANTEDON sp. 

 (Antedon sp.) IS94. Bell. P.Z.8., 1894. p. 401. 



Professor Bell says : ■ • There is yet another hidistichate species which is 

 altogether too much broken for description (from the Macclesfield Bank, in 13 

 fathoms) which has about 30 cirri and 20 smooth cirrus joints." 



