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RECORDS OF W.A. MUSEUM. 
Genus : Comatula, Lamarck. 
COMATULA PURPUREA, J. Muller. 
Comatula purpurea, 1911. A. H. Clark, The Recent Crinoids of Australia, p. 746, 
1911. A. H. Clark, Ergebnisse der Hamburger sudwest-Australischen 
Forschungsreise, 1905, Bd. 3, Lief. 13, S. 451. 1912. A H. Clark, The 
Crinoids of the Indian Ocean, p. 81. 
Locality. Between Fremantle and Geraldton. 
Material. Four specimens ; one of these is typical, with 
^ III cirri, three in interradial pairs and two single; another has 
XI cirri , the cirri in the other two are more numerous than usual, 
but are evidently undergoing reduction toward the condition 
normal for the species, indeed in the larger the normal arrangement 
occurs on about four-fifths of the periphery of the centrodorsal. 
In the largest specimen the anterior arms are about 100 mm. 
long. 
The colour in life was reddish purple. 
Sub-fam. : Comasxerinae, A. H. Clark. 
Genus : Comanthus, A. H. Clark. 
Sub-genus : Comanthus, A. H. Clark. 
Specific Group : Vania, A. H. Clark. 
COMANTHUS (VANIA) ANNULATA, Bell. 
Comanthus (Vania) annulata, 1911. A. H. Clark, The Recent Crinoids of Aus- 
tralia, p 757. 1911, A H. Clark, Ergebnisse der Hamburger sudwest- 
Australischen Forschungsreise 1905, Bd. 3, Lief. 13, s. 457. 
Comanthus annulata, 1912. A. H. Clark, The Crinoids of the Indian Ocean, p. 96. 
Locality. Between Fremantle and Geraldton. 
Material. Nine specimens; two of these are uniform light 
yellowish brown ; the other seven are yellowish brown, darkest on 
the calyx, division series and arm bases where they are thickly 
covered with small uniform round green spots; according to the 
label these were dull green in life. 
The details of the specimens are as follows : (1) about forty- 
five arms about no mm. long; VI cirri; (2) forty arms about 
no mm. long ; X cirri; (3) about forty arms; one of the IIIBr. 
