110 Ml. W. K. Fisher's Not{\^ on Asteroidea. 



coronata, as it possesses tlie prominent abactiiial plates so 

 cliaracteri.-^tic of corouata. Thus there are records from 

 southern Jap.an to northern Australia. 



As a beginning towards straightening the tangle of apj)a- 

 rent races, I would suggest tlie subjoined scheme. Any 

 furllier evidence for or against it, or in any way bearing upon 

 the status of Asltrina coronata, will be most welcome : — 



fl'. Abnctiual spinifoiin pedicellariae present ; 

 8 adanilnilncral furrow-spinelets ; 8 or 9 

 marginal mouth-ppinelets ; ]2 to 14 en- 

 larged abactinal plates Atterina coronata eu- 



erces ' (Fisher). (Palawan.) 



o'. Xo spiuiform pedicellariae present ; fuiTow- 



spinelets 4 to 6 ; marginal mouth-spinelets 



5 or 6. 



6*. Actinal intermediate spinelets usually 



more than 3 ; near tbe fuiTOW 5 or 6, 



forming a circle or group (not a straight 



comb); fun'ow-spiiielets 5 or 6 ; 20 to 



25 prominent abactinal plates to each 



fifth of body Asterina coronata fasci- 



cularis t, subsp. n. (Migupou ; Port Essington?) 

 h-. Actinal intermediate spinelets 2 or 3, but 

 not often 4. 

 c\ Fmriiw-spinekts 4 or 5 ; actinal inter- 

 mediate spii.elets usually 2 ; promi- 

 nent abactinal plates moderate in 

 number (up to 2o to each fifth of 

 body) and with as many as 25 spinelets 



to a plate \ Asterina coronata coro- 

 nata, von Martens. (Southern Japan, Batjan, Larentuka.) 



• Fisher, Proc. Biological Society of Washington, vol. xxx., ^lay 23, 

 1917, p. 91. Ulugan Bay (near mouth ol Baheli River), Palawan Island, 

 Philippine Islands, 2 to u feet, mud, sand, sea-weeds. 



t iliis new race is certainly different as regards the actinal inter- 

 mediate armature. Von Martens states that there are two spinelets in 

 coronata. Of course, specimens may prove to be variable. 



M. Alvin Seale, of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, who has 

 lived many years in the Philijipine Islands, tells me he has sailed past a 

 fairly well-known Mif/i'pou Point ; but I have not been able to locate it, 

 with' available maps, on Mindanao or on Luzon. Mr. Seale does not 

 recall upon which of the two islands the point is found. It is quite 

 possible that this is the locality from which .so many of Gray's types 

 were derived. 



t So far as true coronata is concerned, the remarks concerning the 

 number of prominent plates and the number of .spinelets on these plates 

 are conjectural. These observations refer to the Japanese form, described 

 and fijrured by Dr. S. Goto (' A Descriptive Monograph of Japanese 

 Asteroidea,' 1914, p. 650, pi. xix., figs. 279-281), which may, of course, 

 be quite distinct from typical coronata of the Moluccan region. 



