NO. 15 RECENT CRICOIDS IN ERITISH MUSEUM CLARK 3 



Genus COMATELLA A. H. Clark 

 COMATELLA NIGRA (P. H. Carpenter) 



1. A T o Locality. — One specimen. One of the division series is of 

 four segments, of which the two outer are united by synarthry. 



COMATELLA STELLIGERA (P. H. Carpenter) 



Actinometra tenax 1874. Lutken, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 5, p. 190 (1). 

 Actinometra stelligera 1888. P. H. Carpenter, " Challenger " Report, Co- 



matulae, p. 308 (1, 2, 3). 

 Antedon bassett-smithi 1894. Bell, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1894, p. 393 (4). 

 Actinometra simplex 1894. Bell, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1894, p. 396 (5). 

 Actinometra maculata 1894. Bell, T. c, p. 395 (6) ; p. 396 (7, 8). 



i. Samoa and Fiji. — One specimen with thirty-three arms ; all the 

 division series are external in reference to the IBr series. 



2. Reef of Atagor; Professor J. B. Jukes. — One specimen. 



3. " Challenger " Station No. 174. — Two specimens. 



4. Macclesfield Bank; 13-36 fathoms. — One specimen. 



5. Macclesfield Bank; 13 fathoms. — One specimen with twenty 

 arms ; the cirrus segments number eighteen. 



6. Parry's Shoal; 12 fathoms. — One specimen with twenty-one 

 arms 90 mm. long; the cirri are XXV, 17-20 (usually the latter), 

 15 mm. to 18 mm. long. This specimen is very like No. 5, but the 

 whole animal is a trifle stouter. The color is green, with fine yellow 

 spots. 



7. Macclesfield Bank; 13-36 fathoms. — One specimen with twenty 

 arms 80 mm. long; the cirri are XXII, 18-20 (usually the latter), 

 18 mm. long; the centrodorsal has a broad flat dorsal pole 5 mm. in 

 diameter. The color is red brown. 



8. Macclesfield Bank. — One specimen with twenty-six arms ; the 

 cirri are X, 18. 



COMATELLA MACULATA (P. H. Carpenter) 



Actinometra maculata 1888. P. H. Carpenter, " Challenger " Report, Co- 

 matulae, p. 307 (1). — 1902. Bell, in Gardiner, Fauna and Geography of 

 the Maldive and Laccadive Achipelagoes, vol. 1, part 3, p. 225 (2). 



Actinometra sp. 1898. Bell, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1898, p. 849 (3). 



Actinometra mulliradiata 1909. Bell, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Zool.), (2), vol. 13, 

 part 1, p. 20 (4). 



I. " Challenger" Station No. 186. — One specimen, resembling the 

 specimen which I described from Bowen (Actinometra fusca [Liit- 

 ken, MS.], " Challenger " Report, p. 307 ; Vid. Medd. fra den Natur- 

 hist. Forening i K^benhavn, 1909, p. 138) but with somewhat larger 

 cirri. 



