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THK RECENT CRINOIDS OF AUSTRALIA —CLARK. =©tF^ 



9. Based on the " Alert" Report ; in reality the Alecto parvi- 

 cirraoi J. Miiller, 1841. 



10. Not tlie Comatula rotalaria of Lamarck, 1816, but the 

 Alecto parvicirra of J. Miiller, 1841, to which species Carpenter 

 inadvertently shifted Lamarck's name. 



11. A synonym of Actinometra annidata, Bell, 1882, and of 

 Actinometra meyeri. Carpenter, 1882. 



12. A synonym of Asterias multiradiata, Linnaeus, 1758. 



13. Based on the "Alert" Report; under this name are included 

 Phanogenia typica, Loven, 1866, and Actiiiomefra schlegelii, P. H. 

 Carpenter, 1881. 



14. Includes also Actinometra annulata, Bell, 1882. 



15. Based on the "Alert" Report; under this name are included 

 Alecto Tuultifida, J. Miiller, 1841, and Phanogenia typica, Lovdrn, 

 1866. 



A careful analysis of Cai'penter's Australian species, based on 

 % review of his entire material, gives us the following thirty forms 

 known to him as inhabitants of the coasts of Australia : — 

 Capillaster multiradiata Comanthus parvicirra 



Comatella maculata Zygotnetra microdiscus 



Comatida rotalaria Zygometra multiradiata 



Comatida hrachiolata Zygoinetra elegans 



Comatida Solaris Amphimetra tnilherti 



C<ym,at%da purpurea Amphitnetra discoidea 



Comatula j^ectinata Dichometra articulata 



Comaster typica Dichrometra regince 



Comaster mxdtifida Dichrometra gyges 



Comantheria briar eus Colohometra persjnnosa 



Com.antheria alternans Oligometra adeonce 



Comanthina belli Oligometra carpeuteri 



Comanthina schlegelii Ptilometra macrotiema 



Comanthus trichoptera Ptilometra midleri 



Comanthus anmdata Convpsoinetra loveni 



Of these, sixteen, or more than one half, belong to the Comas- 

 teridse, three each to the Zygometridse, Mariametridae and 

 Colobometridse, two each to the Himerometridte and Thalasso- 

 metridse, and one to the Antedonidse ; there are twenty-nine 

 representatives of the great suborder Oligophreata, while only 

 one is found of the Macrophreata. 



In 1889 Mr. Thomas Whitelegge published a most excellent 

 "List of the Marine and Fresh-water Invertebrate Fauna of Port 

 Jackson and Neighbourhood," and in this list he included five 

 species of Crinoids, all of them previou.sly known from the 

 region. He was able to add original notes in regard to three 



