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specimen is very dull purplish with yellow cirri; others are 
yellowish more or less clouded with purplish ; in the 19-armed 
individual the dull purplish predominates. Twenty-three 
specimens. 
The specimen from off Noosa Head, Queensland, is notice- 
ably more slender than the others and the cirri are somewhat 
more compressed but these differences are very slight and no 
more than one might expect in view of the wide separation of 
Noosa Head from the Tasmanian waters where this species 
seems to be so common. It is no doubt nearly related to 
C. trichoptera, but the scarcity of division series and the 
absence of the peculiar axillaries characteristic of that species, 
would seem to preclude regarding the two as identical. Many 
of the specimens, even small ones, have the genital pinnules 
immensely swollen with the reproductive cells ; in some cases 
only the pinnules near the tip of the arm are unaltered. The 
specimens which have dates on the labels were taken in March 
and April, 1914, and thus it is evident that the species breeds. 
in late summer and early fall. It is possible, of course, that 
it has a prolonged breeding period. 
Locs.—Kast of Babel Island, Bass Strait, 60-70 fathoms and 
50-80 fathoms. 
North-east of Babel Island, Bass Strait, 100-170 fathoms. 
Twenty miles east of Babel Island, Bass Strait, 65 fathoms. 
East of Maria Island, Tasmania, 78 fathoms. 
East of Flinders Island, Bass Strait, 70-100 fathoms. 
Eastern Slope, Bass Strait, 70-120 fathoms. 
Off Noosa Head, southern Queensland, 16 fathoms. 
Family ZYGOMETRIDi. 
Genus ZYGOMETRA, A. H. Clark. 
ZYGOMETRA ELEGANS (Bell). 
Antedon elegans, Bell, Rep. Zool. Coll. H.M.S. ‘ Alert,’ 
1884, p. 162. 
Zygometra elegans, A. H. Clark, Smiths. Misc. Coll., 1., 
1907, p. 348. 
The occurrence of this comatulid as far south as Sandon 
Bluffs, New South Wales, is an interesting extension of its. 
range, since it is not recorded from a lower latitude than that of 
Port Curtis, Queensland. The three specimens are all of 
