14 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 6l 



1. Port Denison; 3-4 fathoms; "Alert." — One specimen. 



2. Banda; 17 fathoms; "' Challenger." — One specimen. 



3. Bandin Island; 8-15 fathoms; October, 1890. — One specimen 

 with between seventy-five and eighty arms. 



4. Bassett-Smith Bank; 9 fathoms. — One small specimen. 



5. Billiton. — One small specimen. 



COMANTHERIA ROTULA A. H. Clark 



Actinomctra parzicirra Brit. Mus., MS. (1). 



1. No Locality. — One specimen with thirty-four arms 70 mm. 

 long; the IIBr series are 4 (3 + 4) and the IIIBr series are 2; a 

 single IVBr series is present, 2, developed externally on the only 

 IIIBr 4 (3 + 4) series, which itself is external. The cirri are V, 

 13, 6 mm. long, small and weak. 



Genus COMANTHINA A. H. Clark 

 COMANTHINA SCHLEGELII (P. H. Carpenter) 



Actinometra multifield 1884. Bell, "Alert" Report, p. 169 (1). 

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



te> P- 336 (2). — Brit. Mus., MS. (9, 12). 

 Actinometra duplex 1888. P. H. Carpenter, T. c, p. 335 (3). — 1894. Bell, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1894, p. 396 (6). — Brit. Mus., MS. (5, 7). 

 Actinometra regalis 1888. P. H. Carpenter, T. c, p. 347 (4). — Brit. Mus., 



MS. (10). 

 Actinometra typica 1902. Bell, in Gardiner, Fauna and Geography of the 



Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes, vol. 1, part 3, p. 225 (8). 



i. Percy Island, Queensland ; "Alert." — One specimen with sixty 

 three arms 85 mm. to 90 mm. long ; a single cirrus with fifteen seg 

 ments remains. The interradial dorsal perisomic plating is very 

 heavy, the plates being exceptionally thick, and rounded dorsally. 

 The five key plates stand out large and prominent in the interradial 

 angles, being especially convex dorsally. 



2. Zamboanga; " Challenger." — Five specimens, exactly like those 

 in the U. S. National Museum from the Philippine Islands. 



3. Banda; " Challenger." — A young specimen with five cirri 

 remaining. 



4. Banda; " Challenger." — Two immature specimens ; one has the 

 cirri VIII, 15-17; the other has four large and two small cirri, and 

 a few cirrus stumps. 



5. Bassett-Smith Bank; 9 fathoms. — One small specimen with a 

 remarkable development of interradial plating. 





