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oblong and strongly overlapping brachials; but the cirrus joints 

 agree with those given for C midtivadiata by Carpenter. 



A critical study of a very large series shows that Comatula -fimbri- 

 ata., Actinometva horneensis, and Actinometra copfingeri should all 

 be referred to the Linnsean Astenas multiradiata. 



Other specimens Avere obtained at stations 5161, between Simaluc 

 Island and Tawi Tawi ; IG fathoms ; and 5165, south of San Gasanga 

 Island (Tataan group) ; 9 fathoms. 



Genus PHANOGENIA Loven. 



PHANOGENIA MULTIBRACHIATA (P. H. Carpenter). 



This sjjecies was secured a station 5248, Rakiputan Strait, between 

 the northern end of Samal Island and the west coast of Davao Bay; 

 18 fathoms; station 5249, same locality; 23 fathoms; and station 

 5254, same locality; 21 fathoms. 



PHANOGENIA CARPENTERI (A. H. Clark). 



One specimen was dredged at station 5153, east of Port Dos 

 Amigos, Tawi Tawi ; 49 fathoms. 



This is the species which was described by Prof. Johannes Miiller 

 under the name of Aleeto midti-fida, which name, however, he ex- 

 plicitly states to be a substitute for nudt'wadiatd Lamarck, not multi- 

 radiata Goldfuss. The elements of the III Br series are united by 

 synarthry, and this led Doctor Carpenter to place the species in his 

 " ParA^icirra group," corresponding, in part, to the genus C omanthiis ; 

 but all except the II Br series, which are 4 (3-|-4), are 2, a condi- 

 tion quite unknown in Coiyianthm^^ the proximal pinnules are slender 

 instead of stout, and terminal combs occur at intervals along the mid- 

 dle and distal pinnules ; these combs also are abrupt, with a few long, 

 curved teeth. In spite of the synarthrial instead of syzygial 

 union of the III Br and IV Br series, the affinities of this form are 

 distinctly with the members of the genus Phanogenia as restricted, 

 and to that genus it must be assigned. 



The specimen at hand has about forty arms. 



PHANOGENIA MINIMA, new species. 



Centro-dorsal stellate, without cirri ; radials entirely visible, trape- 

 zoidal, proximally twdce, distally three times (or rather more), as 

 broad as long; I Br^ entirely free laterally, four times as broad as 

 long, decreasing slightly in diameter anteriorly; I Br. (axillary) 

 broadly pentagonal, twice as broad as long; II Br 4 (3+4), rarely 

 2; IIIBr 2 (1+2) ; IV Br 2 (1+2), but rarely present. 



About forty arms TO mm. long; brachials and pinnules as in P. 

 gracilis.) but proportionately more slender and delicate. 



