6 THE ECHINODERMS OF TORRES STRAIT. 
There are 11 crinoids, 13 asteroids, 6 ophiurans, 8 echinoids, and 4 holothurians 
in this list, a total of 42 species and varieties, of which 16 were supposedly new to 
science. As revised in the light of present knowledge, there are but 41 species and 
varieties and only 12 really new. ; 
The next collector of echinoderms to visit the Torres Strait region was Dr. 
R. W. Coppinger, of H. M. 8. Alert, who spent the months of June to September 
1881 at Thursday Island. He was a remarkably intelligent and skilful naturalist, 
and though not especially interested in echinoderms, he brought to the British 
Museum a large and valuable collection of those animals, which was studied and 
reported on by F. Jeffrey Bell. 
The following species were contained in the Alert collection from the Torres 
Strait region: 
OPHIUROIDEA: 
Pectinura infernalis =Ophiarachnella infernalis. 
Ophiopinax stellatus = Ophiochasma stellatum. 
Ophiopeza conjungens = Pectinura yoldii. 
Ophionereis dubia =Ophionereis semoni. 
Ophiothrix martensi. 
irregularis = , Zygometra elegans. melanogramma. 
Heterometra crenulata. punctolimbata. 
milberti=Amphimetra discoidea, Oligo- rotata. 
metra carpenteri. ; striolata. 
Actinometra intermedia =Comatula solaris. Ophiomaza cacaotica. 
jukesi =Comatula rotalaria. 
multifida =Comaster noveguinerr, Co- 
manthus schlegelii. 
parvicirra =Comanthus parvicirra. 
paucicirra ?=Comatula rotalaria. 
robusta =Comatula solaris. 
solaris=Comatula solaris, pectinata, 
purpurea, and Heterometra 
crenulata. 
variabilis =Comaster multifida. 
CrinoweEa:! 
Antedon bidens =Oligometrides adeone. 
decipiens = Heterometra crenulata. 
elegans =Zygometra elegans. 
gyges =Lamprometra gyges. 
Comatula pectinata. 
EcuINoIwEA: 
Phyllacanthus annulifera = Prionocidaris bispinosa. 
Salmacis alexandri =Salmancis virgulata alexandri. 
Temnopleurus bothryoides=Temnotrema bothry- 
oides. 
toreumaticus. 
Echinus angulosus = Lytechinus verruculatus. 
darnleyensis = Nudechinus darnleyensis. 
Fibularia volva. 
Laganum decagonale = Peronella orbicularis. 
depressum. 
Echinoneus cyclostomus. 
Lovenia elongata. 
Breynia australasizx. 
ASTEROIDEA: 
Echinaster purpureus = Echinaster luzonicus. 
Linckia megaloplax =Tamaria fusea. 
nodosa = Hacelia helicosticha. 
Metrodira subulata. HoLOTHURIOIDEA: 
Stellaster incei. 
Pentagonaster coppingert =Goniodiscaster coppin- 
geri. 
validus =Goniodiseaster pleyadella. 
Dorigona longimana =Iconaster longimanus. 
Asterina cepheus = Asterina burtonii. 
Asterina (Nepanthia) brevis. 
Astropecten coppingeri =Astropecten zebra. 
Retaster insignis. 
Cucumaria sempert. 
Colochirus tuberculosus = Pentacta tuberculosa. 
Actinocucumis difficilis. 
Thyone sacellus. 
Thyonidium schmeltzii =Phyllophorus schmeltzii. 
Phyllophorus proteus. 
Holothuria lineata = Holothuria pardalis. 
modesta ? 
peregrina = Holothuria pardalis. 
There are 14 crinoids, 12 asteroids, 10 ophiurans, 12 echinoids, and 9 holo- 
thurians in this list, a total of 57 species, of which 15 are described as new to science. 
As revised in the light of present knowledge, there were 56 species in this collection, 
but only 7 were new to science at the time. It is a striking fact that only 13 of the 
1 The corrected identifications of the Alert comatulids are due to Mr. A. H. Clark’s revision of the crinoids of 
the British Museum (1913). 
* This species is also recorded, in the Challenger list, as new to science, but it was described from the Alert 
collection. That is, it was first taken by the Challenger, but was first described in the Alert report. 
