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THE LINNEAN SOCIETY. 



I. On the Genus Actinometra, Midi., loith a 2Iorjj]iolog'ical Account of a neio Species 

 (A.) polymorplia //-OJM the Philipijine Islands. — Parti. By P. Herbert Carpenter, 

 M.A., Assistant 3Iaster at Eton College. {Communicated bt/W. B. Carpenter, 

 as., M.J)., LL.D., F.B.S., F.L.S.) 



(Plates I.-VIII.) 



Eead June 21st, 1877. 



J- HE principal part of the investigations, of whicli the results are set forth in the fol- 

 lowing pages, were carried on during the year 1876, in the Zool.-Zootomical Institute of 

 the University of Wlirzburg, under the superintendence of its director, Prof. C. Semper. 

 I would here express my most sincere thanks to Prof. Semper, not only for the 

 generous manner in which he placed at my disposal all his specimens of Act. poly moipha, 

 which he had himself collected in the Philippine Islands, but also for the ready and 

 valuable advice which he constantly afforded me during the progress of my work, and 

 for the free use which he permitted me to make of his extensive library. I am also 

 greatly indebted to Dr. Saudberger, Professor of Geology in the University of "VVuvzburg, 

 to the authorities of the University Library, and to Professor Dr. Halm, of the Royal 

 Library at Munich, for the means of reference to many books which would otherwise 

 have remained inaccessible to me ; and I desire to record my best thanks to all these 

 gentlemen for the ready kindness with which they met my frequent and numerous 

 wants. 



I. Historic AL. 

 (§ 1) In the remarkable work of Linckius i upon the " Sea Stars," the modem family 

 Comatulidse (J. MiiUer) is described under the name of Crinitse, or Comatse Stella}, as a 

 group distinct not only from the Asteridae, but also from the Ophiuridse and from 

 Astrophyton {Euryale, Lamarck), with which they have been united by many later 

 systematists. 



' JoiLiNNis Henkici LnjcKii Lipsicnsis ' De Stellis ilarinis lilcr suiguluris,' Lipsix, 1733, p. 53. 

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