PART I. 
THE COMATULIDS OF TORRES STRAIT. 
The following list makes no pretensions to being complete, for it 
includes only the species collected by me in September and October 
1913. All but three specimens were collected at Maér. The three 
exceptions, each representing a species, were taken on the sandy reef- 
flat on the southern side of Friday Island, September 13, 1913. The 
nomenclature and systematic arrangement here used (except in two or 
three insignificant details) are those of A. H. Clark’s ‘‘ Recent Crinoids 
of Australia” (Mem. Aust. Mus., tv, pt. 15, 1911) and later papers 
by the same author. 
1. Capillaster multiradiata (L.). 
A single specimen of this species was collected at Maér, just outside the reef, 
in about 5 or 6 fathoms of water. It was one of the very few specimens 
secured by means of a ‘‘tangle.”” The color in life was as follows: oral surface, 
black; dorsal surface, brown, the joints between the arm-segments much 
darker; whole dorsal surface, including the cirri, heavily silvered or frosted 
with white. The preserved specimen, dry, is light gray, the joints noticeably 
darker. There are 19 arms and the cirri are xx1, 20—24. 
2. Comatella nigra (P. H. C.). 
Two specimens of this species, well known from the East Indian region but 
not previously recorded from Australia, were taken on the outer portion of 
the southwestern reef-flat at Maér. 
3. Comatella stelligera (P. H. C.). 
: This species is very common at Maér, especially on the southwestern reef- 
at. 
4. Comatella maculata (P. H. C.). 
Common on both the southeastern and southwestern reef-flats at Maér, on 
the under surface of rock-fragments. 
5. Comatula pectinata (L.). 
Decidedly uncommon at Maér, but several specimens were taken with the 
following species. A single specimen was also taken on the sandy flat south 
of Friday Island. 
6. Comatula purpurea (J. Miiller). 
Exceedingly common everywhere on the reefs about Maér. Very variable 
in color and size. 
7. Comanthus alternans (P. H. C.). 
A single specimen was collected by the diver, in 18 fathoms, outside the 
western reef-flat at Maér. 
8. Comanthus schlegelii (P. H. C.). 
Two specimens were taken by the diver, in 18 fathoms, outside the western 
reef-flat at Maér, and one specimen was found on the Great Barrier Reef itself 
on October 15. 
9. Comanthus annulatum (Bell). 
Exceedingly common at Maér; also taken on the flat south of Friday Island. 
Extraordinarily variable in coloration, ranging from lemon-yellow and brown 
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