8 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 6l 



Genus COMATULA Lamarck 

 COMATULA ROTALARIA (Lamarck) 



Actinometra jukesii 1879. P. H. Carpenter, Proc. Roy. Soc, vol. 28, p. 390 



(1). 

 Actinometra jukcsi 1884. Bell, "Alert" Report, p. 168 (2, ?3, ?4). 

 Actinometra paucicirra 1884. Bell, "Alert" Report, p. 169 (3, 4). — 1888. 



P. H. Carpenter, "Challenger" Report, Comatulse, p. 291 (6, 7). 



1. Cape York; Professor J. B. Jukes. — One specimen. 



2. Albany Island, Queensland; 3-4 fathoms; mud; "Alert." — 

 One large and typical specimen with twenty arms. 



3. Prince of Wales Channel, Torres Strait; J fathoms; "Alert." — 

 One fine specimen. 



4. Prince of Wales Channel, Torres Strait; 5-7 fathoms; sand and 

 shell; "Alert." — Two small specimens, one with three, the other 

 with four cirri. These are the types of paucicirra. 



5. Torres Strait; 4 fathoms; "Alert." — Two twenty armed speci- 

 mens ; one has one cirrus stump remaining ; in both the centrodorsal 

 is not yet sunk to the level of the dorsal surface of the radials. 



6. " Challenger " Station No. i8j ; Cape York. — About a dozen 

 specimens ; all appear to be twenty armed and typical. 



7. Aru (Arrozv) Islands; " Challenger ." — Small specimens which 

 have not entirely lost their cirri. 



8. No Locality.- — One fine specimen with twenty-one arms ; the 

 centrodorsal is stellate, countersunk to the level of the dorsal surface 

 of the radials ; there are no subradial clefts ; the single IIIBr series 

 is externally developed, and resembles the IIBr series. 



9. Holothuria Bank. — One specimen. 

 10. Holothuria Bank; 34 fathoms. — One specimen. 



COMATULA ETHERIDGEI A. H. Clark 



Comatula ethridgei 191 1. A. H. Clark, Memoirs of the Australian Museum, 

 vol. 4, part 15, p. 741 (1, 2). 



1. Holothuria Bank; 38 fathoms. — Three specimens. 



2. Baudin Island, northzuestern Australia; 8-15 fathoms. — One 

 specimen. 



These have been described in detail in the reference cited. 



COMATULA SOLARIS (Lamarck) 



Antedon milberti 1884. Bell, " Alert " Report, p. 156 (10). 



Actinometra solans 1884. Bell, T. c, p. 164 (1) ; p. 165 (2). — 1888. P. H. 



Carpenter, "Challenger" Report, Comatulas, p. 288 (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7„ 



8, 11, 12, 13, 14). 



