no. 1808. RECENT AFRICAN CRINOIDS— CLARK. 35 



to Riy Bank (iat. 33° 58' S.; long. 25° 51' 30" E.); Tugela River 

 mouth bearing NW. by W., 3$ miles distant; Rocky Bank, False 

 Bay; Dumford Point bearing NE by E., 9 miles distant. 



Depth.— Littoral, and down to 30 fathoms. 



Bottom. — Reefs; rocks; rocks and coral; sand and shell; dark sand, 

 black specks, and rocks. 



TROPIOMETRA PICTA (Gay). 



"iAlecto carinata Leach, Zool. Misc., vol. 2, 1815, p. 63. 



Comatula picta Gay, Historia fisica y politica de Chile, vol. 8, 1854, p. 429. — 



Dujardin and Hupe, Hist. nat. des zoophytes; echinoderrues, 1862, p. 208. 

 Antedon braziliensis (Lutken MS.) Verrill, Trans. Conn. Acad. Sci., vol. 1, 



1867, p 341 (nomen nudum). — Rathbun, Trans. Conn. Acad. Sci., vol. 5, 



1879, p. 156. 

 Antedon carinata (part) P. H. Carpenter, Challenger Reports, vol. 26, Zoology, 



1888, p. 199, pi. 34, figs. 1-7. 

 Antedon dubeni (part) P. H. Carpenter, Challenger Reports, vol. 26, Zoology, 



1888, p. 181, pi. 37, fig. 1 (but not figs. 2, 3). 

 Tropiometra braziliensis A. H. Clark, Smiths. Misc. Coll. (Quarterly Issue), vol. 



50, pt. 3, 1907, p. 349. 



Locality. — St. Helena. 



Remarks. — The specimen obtained by the Challenger at Bahia in 

 20 fathoms and referred by Carpenter to Bohlsche's Antedon dubenii 

 is also of this species. 



Gay has described, under the name of Comatula picta, a new species 

 of Tropiometra from Chile. I have examined his specimens in Paris 

 and find that they are of the common Brazilian species. He says: 



C. radiis incrassatis, pinnatis decern, dorso obsolete carinatis et tuberculatis; cirrhis 

 dorsalibus 24; brachiis in pinnulis rubro et fusco articulatis. 



Especie de radios espesos, articulados, en numero de diez, cargados de pinulas 

 bastante delgadas; estos radios lie van en el medio de su faz dorsal una carena poco 

 marcada, sobre la cual existe una sene de tuberculillos salientes y puntuados. Los 

 brazos 6 las cirras dorsales son delgados, articulados, desiguales y en numero de veinte 

 y cuartro. Toda la extension del brazo y de las cirras dorsales esta como articulada 

 por manchas anulares, alternativamente encarnadinas y pardas. 



Esta linda especie de Comatula es hasta cierto punto vecina del C. carinata Lamk. 

 Sus brazos 6 radios son espesos y carnudos como en esta especies, pero difiere de ella 

 por su coloracion sumamente elegante, que consiste en manchas anulares de un bruno 

 encarnadino el cual cubre toda la estension de los radios y de las pinulas. Se halla 

 en Chile. 



Gay's original specimens are in the Paris Museum, and were in 

 1862 listed by Dujardin and Hupe in their monograph under the 

 name of Comatula picta. This name was originally proposed by 

 Valenciennes, and subsequently adopted by Gay. Gay did not find 

 the species in Chile himself, but merely recorded in his work some 

 specimens he found in the Paris Museum labeled as from Chile while 

 he was engaged in writing his history. The coast of Chile has been 

 carefully searched by zoologists over and over again, and no one who 

 has been in that country ever mentioned the occurrence of crinoids 



