22 



Recorded from Mozambique and East Australia; and Port MoUe" and 

 Port Denison, Queensland. 



15a. Pentaceros gracilis (Liitken), young. 



locality.— XIV., Bushby Island, 15 fathoms, rock and sand. 



Apparently a young specimen. E = 6o. 



Disc not very hiwh. Five large apical tubercles and three small ones 

 around the anus. 



The lophial line of tubercles distinct: tubercles few and small on a 

 line on either side of the lophial line. 



Supero-marginals with a single distinct tubercle generally absent on the 

 most proximal but one ; placed higher on the most proximal plate. 



Infero-marginals with a similar tubercle, occasionally absent near the 

 distal end. 



Actinal surface with plates distinct, granulated, with a tendency to 

 tubercles on the innermost ones. 



Small valvular pedicellariae on proximal plates of the row adjacent to the 

 ambulacral grove, one on each plate. 



Ambulacral armature : inside row of five or six spines, among which one 

 or two seem decidedly larger : then two, large, stout, blunt : and finally 

 an inconspicuous row of two or three small ones. 



The specimen bears some resemblance to P. chinensis, Gray, but is 

 probably a young form of P. gracilis. 



16. Palmipes rosaceus (Lam.), Duj. k Hupe. 

 Peirier, loc. cit., v. p. 210. 



Localities. — XVII., Between Sir John Malcolm and Charlotte Islands, in 

 18 fathoms, coarse sand ; XXV., Gregory Group, 4 to 14 fathoms, 

 sand and shell. 

 Two damaged specimens, in the largest of which i^=105 and ?' = 80. 

 Recorded from the Bay of Bengal and Japan. 



17. Fromia milleporella, Gray. 



Perrier, loc. cit., iv. p. 437. 



Locality. — XXII., Hastings Harbour, St Luke's Island, 15 to 20 fathoms, 



sand and shell ; and XXX., Fly Island, 8 to 15 fathoms, rock and sand. 



Two specimens in which the five arms are of unequal lengths. 



R = 50 (longest arm) or 38 (shortest arm) r = 10 



72 = 60 r=ll 



