12 ‘* ENDEAVOUR” SCIENTIFIC RESULTS. 
Twenty and a half miles S., 19° E. of Cape Everard, Victoria, 
90 fathoms. 
One good specimen from an unknown locality, but the 
appearance leaves little room for doubt that it is from the 
station south-east of Cape Everard, Victoria. 
Family COMASTERID:. 
Genus ComatuLa, Lamarck. 
COMATULA CRATERA,! sp. nov. 
(Plate II., fig. 1.) 
Disk of holotype, 13 mm. across ; arms 175 mm. or more in 
length, 4 mm. in transverse diameter at base, 5 mm. at 20 
mm. distance from base, and 3} mm. at 50 mm. from base. 
Centrodorsal pentagonal, 4 mm. in diameter; its sides are 
straight or more or less concave ; it is flush with the radials, 
all of which are fully exposed. Cirri none in the holotype and 
eight other specimens; in three specimens, a single small 
cirrus is present in each ; one specimen has two and one has 
three such cirri, each with 16-19 joints. The second radial is 
more than twice as high as the first and half again as wide ; 
the third (axillary) is triangular, nearly twice as wide as high. 
Brachials (beyond the tenth) broadly triangular, the pinnule- 
bearing end three times as wide as the other; the distal 
margin is slightly concave and projects as a faint articular 
tubercle where the brachial is widest ; the lowest brachials are 
nearly equally wide on the two sides and have the articular 
tubercle more marked on their proximal margins, but these 
tubercles are never conspicuous. Along the. median line of 
the arm is a slight keel ; it is better marked on some brachials 
than on others and the degree of development differs in differ- 
ent specimens. Syzygies between br. 1 and 2, and 3 and 4 
and then at intervals of 5-7 joints to about br. 30, after which 
the usual interval is 5, though 4 or 6 occur frequently. Pin- 
nules rather stout but becoming long and slender distally ; 
P, about 20-25 mm. long, with some 45 segments, of which not 
more than 12-15 make up the small terminal comb; suc- 
ceeding pinnules successively shorter to Pg which is about 
16 mm. long and has some 25 segments; terminal combs 
confined to first three pairs of pinnules; basal segments on 
Ae Kpatepa=strong, stout, in reference to the unusually thick arms. 
