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Station 2S2. 8°25'.2S., i27°iS'.4E. 27 to 54 meters. Sand, coral and Lithothamnion. Wriglitclla 

 tongaensis. 



Station 299. 10° 52'. 4 S., i23°i'.iE. 34 meters. Mud, coral and Lithothamnion. Mclitodes flabcllum, 

 i\I. sqiiaiiiata. 



Station 305. Mid channel in Solor Strait, Off Kampong Menanga. 113 meters. Stony. Melitodes 

 flabelluin. 



Station 310. 8°3o'S., 119° 7. 5 E. ji meters. Sand with few pieces of dead coral. Melitodes flabelluin, 

 Acabaria pJiilippinensis, Parisis fruticosa. 



Station 315. Anchorage East of Sailus Besar, Paternoster Islands. Up to 36 meters. Coral and 

 Lithothamnion. Melitodes esperi. 



The above list shows that Mehtodidce were collected at 26 stations, or at about 13°/^ of the 

 stations at which successful hauls were made during the Siboga Expedition. The most abundant 

 genus of IVIelitodida; in the region covered by the expedition is the type genus Melitodes, which 

 was collected at 17 stations out of the 26. Melitodes esperi seems to be the most abundant species 

 of Melitodidse in the collection, having been collected at 9 stations; and M. ßadelluin is the next. 



Table showing the bath y metric and geographic distribution 

 of the Sclera xonia of the Siboga Expedition. 



