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Observation. 



LAMARCK describes a small Comatula as C. fimbriata, found by M. PERRON 

 and LE SUEUR in the eastern seas, stating that it somewhat resembles the Stella 

 Barbata of LINKIUS, t. 37. No. 64. PENNANT quotes the same figure for his 

 Asterias decacnemos, but in his representation (Pi,, xxv.) does not express 

 the ti tub dated membrane, nor does his figure show the organic detail correctly: 

 he also represents a pentagonal mouth which I could not detect in my dried 

 specimens ; hence I do not know how far those figures and quotations afford 

 synonymes or reference. 



A species of Comatula appears to occur in the Solenhofe slate, it has been 

 figured byKnoRR (PL.n. L. i.) and by vonScHLOTHEiwinhis JpftltfilCttnlUtnltf, 

 as Ophiurites pennatus, p. 28. (fig. 1. and 2.) but neither of these figures exhibit 

 that accurate attention to organic formation, which alone can enable us to 

 furnish a specific character. 



