NO. 1673. RECENT CRIN0ID8 FROM THE PHILIPPINES— CLARK. 397 



Station 5248; Rakiputaii Strait, between the northern end of Samal 

 IsLand and the west coast of Davao Bay; 18 fathoms. 

 Station 5249; same locality; 23 fathoms. 

 Station 5250; same locality; 28 fathoms. 

 Station 5251; same locality; 20 fathoms. 

 Station 5252 ; same locality ; 28 fathoms. 

 Station 5253; same locality; 28 fathoms. 

 Station 5254; same locality; 21 fathoms. 

 There are also specimens with no definite locality given. 

 One of the specimens from station 5249 is four rayed. 



COMANTHUS DUPLEX (P. H. Carpenter). 



A single specimen was secured at station 5252 ; Kakiputan Strait, 

 between the northern end of Samal Island and the western coast of 

 Davao Bay; 28 fathoms. 



COMANTHUS ROTALARIA (Lamarck). 



This species was found at station 5218, east of the northern end 

 of Burias Island (south of Luzon) ; 20 fathoms. 



Station 5248; Kakiputan Strait, between the northern end of 

 Samal Island and the western coast of Davao Bay; 18 fathoms. 



Station 5253 ; same locality ; 28 fathoms ; and 



Station 5254; same locality; 21 fathoms. 



COMANTHUS ALTERNANS (P. H. Carpenter). 



One specimen was dredged at station 5252; Rakiputan Strait, 

 between the northern end of Samal Island and the western shore of 

 Davao Bay ; 28 fathoms ; and another at station 5254 ; same locality ; 

 21 fathoms. 



Family HIMEROMETRIDJE. 



Genus PONTIOMETRA A. H. Clark. 

 PONTIOMETRA INSPERATUS, new species. 



Centro-dorsal hemispherical, the dorsal pole small, slightly convex; 

 cirrus sockets arranged roughly in three alternating rows, more or 

 less crowded. 



Cirri XX, 41-52, 30 mm. long, stout, but tapering in the distal half, 

 and comparatively slender at the tip; first joint three times as broad 

 as long, second and third twice as broad as long, the folloAving 

 gradually increasing in length to about the seventh, which is about 

 one-third broader than long; next three or four similar, the joints 

 then gradually decreasing in length, those in the distal third of the 

 cirrus being uniformly twice as broad as long; sixth to eighth and 

 following joints with the distal dorsal edge everted in the shape of an 

 open V-shaped ridge, composed of an apical round tubercle, and tAvo 

 lateral more or less elongate tubercles; distally this ridge gradually 

 becomes less and less V-shaped, composed of four or five tubercles, 



