48 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. 40. 



COMATULES. 



Comatules Ferussac, Bull, des sci. nat. (2), vol. 26, 1831, p. 183. 

 Ferussac records that M. Lamarc-Picquot brought home numerous 

 comatulids from his voyage to the East Indies and South Africa. 



COMATULA. 



Comatula von Graff, Challenger Reports, vol. 10, Zoology, 1884, p. 48; repeated 

 in Braun, Centralbl. fur Bakteriol. und Parasitenkunde, vol. 3, 1888, p. 186. 



Professor von Graff records myzostomes from an undetermined 



comatulid taken at Fouquet Island, southeast of Mauritius, in 18 



fathoms. 



COMATULES. 



Comatules Parfait, Rapport sur la campagne scientifique du Talisman en 1883, 

 1884, pp. 39, 41, 43, 45, 47, 49, 55, and 57. 



Captain Parfait records comatulids from the Talisman dredgings 

 as follows: south of the Bay of Cadiz (lat. 36° 02' N.; long. 9° 01' E.), 

 126 meters ("une pleine bailie de comatules"); off Cape Spartel 

 (lat. 35° 26' N.; long. 9° 09' E.), 717 meters; lat. 33° 47' N.; long. 

 11° 23' E., 1,635 meters ("comatules jaune soufre;" probably 

 Thalassometridae) ; lat. 32° 27' N.; long. 12° 15' E., 1,123 meters; 

 lat. 30° 08' N.; long. 14° 02' E., 2,200 meters; lat. 30° 03' N.; long! 

 14° 02' E., 2,212 meters; lat. 29° 01' N.; long. 14° 51' E. ; 1,180 

 meters; lat. 28° 37' N.; long. 15° 22' E., 865 meters; lat. 28° 35' N.; 

 long. 15° 30' E., 975 meters; lat. 28° 35' N.; long. 15° 36' E., 

 1,238 meters; lat. 26° 17' N.; long. 17° 11' E., 355 meters ("mul- 

 titude de comatules"); lat. 26° 16' N.; long. 17° 11' E., 250 meters; 

 lat. 26° 13' N.; long. 17° 10' E., 175 meters; lat. 26° 07 N.; long. 

 17° 08' E., 130 meters; lat. 25° 41' N.; long. 18° 16' E., 410 

 meters; lat. 21° 51' N.; long. 19° 18' E., 235 meters; lat. 19° 19' 

 N.; long. 20° 22' E., 2,333 meters; lat. 19° 16' N.; long. 20° 20' E., 

 2,320 meters; lat. 38° 38' N.; long. 30° 41' E., 1,257 meters; lat. 

 45° 59' N.; long. 6° 29' E., 1,480 meters. 



COMATULES. 



Comatules de Folin, Sous les mers, 1887, pp. 266, 277, 280, 281, 282, 283, 288, 

 297, 328, and 335. 



Marquis de Folin records unidentified comatulids from the west 

 coast of Morocco, off Cape Spartel, 717 meters; west coast of Morocco, 

 1,123 meters; west coast of Morocco, 2,200 meters; west coast of 

 Morocco, 2,212 meters; Canary Islands, 1,180 meters, 865 meters, 

 1,238 meters, 345 meters, 130 meters, and 410 meters; off the coast 

 of Senegal, 2,333-2,320 meters; among the Azores, 1,257-1,255 

 meters (and in the Gulf of Gascony, 1,480 meters). 



Probably these specimens are in the Paris Museum. 



