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2. West Reef, Hnlule, Male, Maldives. — One specimen with 

 seventeen arms. 



3. Outer part of reef at Rotuma; " the only crinoid seen at Rotitma 

 or Funafuti." — One specimen. 



4. Salomon; from reef; 8/6/05. — O ne specimen with twenty-six 

 arms 85 mm. long; the cirri are XXI, 15-18 (usually 17 or 18). 

 Compared directly with the type of the species (1) this specimen is 

 found to differ only in its more numerous arms ; all the IIIBr series 

 are developed externally. 



Genus NEOCOMATELLA A. H. Clark 

 NEOCOMATELLA EUROPJEA A. H. Clark 



Actinometra pulchella 1888. P. H. Carpenter, " Challenger " Report, Comat- 

 ulse, p. 304 (part) (1). 



I. "Porcupine" Station No. 31 (18/0); 477 fathoms. — One 

 specimen, small and badly broken, with twenty arms. One of the 

 IIBr series is lacking, and a single IIIBr series is developed, exter- 

 nally, on another ray. The mouth is subcentral. Only one cirrus 

 stump with four segments is present ; the cirrus segments are excep- 

 tionally long, the fourth being four times as long as broad, or even 

 rather longer. 



NEOCOMATELLA ATLANTICA A. H. Clark 



Actinometra pulchella 1S8S. P. H. Carpenter, " Challenger" Report, Comat- 

 ulse. p. 304 (part) (1). 



1. St. Paul's Rocks, 10-80 fathoms; "Challenger." — One large 

 badly broken specimen with twenty arms. The distal dorsal edges 

 of the pinnule segments are very strongly everted and produced so 

 that the dorsal pinnule profile is deeply serrate. The longest cirrus 

 stump remaining is 12.5 mm. long with nine segments, the sixth the 

 longest, slightly over twice as long as broad ; the following segments 

 are slightly shorter; the sixth and following have the distal dorsal 

 edge slightly produced. 



Genus CAPILLASTER A. H. Clark 

 CAPILLASTER SENTOSA (P. H. Carpenter) 



Actinometra sentosa 1888. P. H. Carpenter, " Challenger" Report, Comatu- 

 \x., p. 325 (1). — 1902. Bell, in Gardiner, Fauna and Geography of the 

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



i. Banda; "Challenger." — Two specimens. 



2. North Male, Maldives. — One fine specimen. 



