798 " THETIS " SCIENTIFIC RESULTS. 



ANTEDON, sp. 



Antedon, sp., 1885, Bell, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, vol. 9 (1884), 

 p. 498. 

 Professor Bell gives a nominal list of Crinoids included in a 

 collection from New South Wales placed in his hands for 

 determination; in addition there were "several species of 

 Aoitedon, hitherto undescribed, but here unfortunately represented 

 by single, not always perfect, specimens." 



ANTEDON, sp. 



Antedon, sp., 1889, Studer, Die Forschungsreise S.M.S. "Gazelle," 

 iii. Thiol, Zool. und Geol., p. 184. 

 Pi'ofessor Studer records an undetermined species which he 

 referred to this genus which was taken in 25° 50'8' S. lat., 112° 

 36'8' E. long, (off Dirk Hartog Island), two sea miles from land, 

 in 45-60 fathoms, with a bottom temperature of 21° (J. Tlie 

 specimen was of a deep violet colour in life. 



COMATULA, sp. 



Conuitida, sp., 1889, Studer, Die Forschungsreise S.M.S. 

 "Gazelle," iii. Thiel, Zool. und Geol., p. 195. 

 Two ten-armed Comatulids are recorded from 19° 41'1' S. lat., 

 110° 49'8 ' E. long., off the west coast of Australia, in 91"5 meters, 

 with a bottom temperature of 14.7° C. The colour of one is 

 recorded as purple, of the other as pale yellow ; the latter is 

 probably a Thalassometrid. 



ANTEDON, sp. 



Antedon, 1893, Kent, The Great Barrier Reef of Australia; its 

 Products and Potentialities, p. 43, pi. xi., figs. 7, la. 

 " Two other members of the same echiuodermatous, or sea- 

 urchin and starfish, class, observed on the Palm Island reefs, 

 are depicted in the same coloured plate. These are the two 

 Feather-starfish, Antedon sp., represented by Figs. 7 and 7a, 

 clinging to the corallum of the Gorgonia in the right hand upper 

 <;orner. In general form they re.semble the English Feather-star, 

 Coinatula rosacea [i.e., Antedon bifida^ ; but they possess about 

 forty, in place of the ten, pinnate arms of the European type. 

 The variety of hues exhibited by this -Barrier Reef species are 

 legion, running through every gradation of tint from pale yellow 

 to rose-pink, deep crimson and black, and including every con- 

 ceivable intermixture of these colours. One especially handsome 

 racial variety of this Feather-star, obtained at Thursday Island, 



