444 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM vo. xxxw. 
Actinometra multibrachiata P. H. Carprntrmr, 1888. 
1888. P. H. Carrrenter, Challenger Reports,’ X XVI; Zoology, 
p-. 295, pl. uv1, figs. 8, 4; detailed description, p. 299; first 
mentioned, p. 27. 
Ty pe- locality —Banda (Moluccas) ; a fathoms. H. M.S. Chal- 
lenger. 
multibrachiata=many armed. British Museum. 
Actinometra multifida P. H. Carpenter, 1888 (not Alecto multifida 
J. Millér 1841=Comatula multiradiata Lamarck=A sterias 
multiradiata Linneeus | not Asterias multiradiata Schweigger 
nor Comatula multiradiata Goldfuss nor Comatula multi- 
radiata Leuckart |). 
1888. P. H. Carpenrrr, Challenger Reports, X XVI, Zoology, 
p. 330. 
Type-locality.—N ot given. 
multifida=divided into many parts. Paris Museum. 
Alecto multifida of Miiller, according to the author’s own state- 
ment, 1s clearly a synonym of Comatula multiradiata Lamarck. 
Miiller took the ground that Lamarck’s description was not 
identifiable, but that the same name had been apphed by Goldfuss 
to quite a different species, which was adequately described, so 
that the name held for the latter: multifida was proposed to 
cover Lamarck’s type specimens. We know now what the Coma- 
tula multiradiata of Lamarck really is, and that it is the same 
as one of the species included by Linneeus in his Asterias multi- 
radiata; therefore, it is really the Comatula multiradiata of 
Goldfuss which needs a new name, and the Alecto multifida of 
Miiller becomes a pure synonym of Comatula multiradiata La- 
marck. This leaves Actinometra multifida P. H. Carpenter (not 
of Miller) without a name; it may be called Comaster car- 
pentert. 
Actinometra mutabilis von Grarr, 1884. (“ P. H. Carpenter MS.”) 
1884. von GRAFF, Ghalionece Reports, X, eer Pt 27, p. 13. 
A nomen nudum. 
“mutabilis=changeable. 
According to Carpenter (Challenger Reports, X XVI, Zoology, 
1888, p. 538) this name originated with Liitken. 
Actinometra nigra P. H. Carpenter, 1888. (“ Semper MS.”) 
+876. W. B. Carpentsr, Proc. Roy. Soc., XXIV, p. 451. 
A nomen nudum. ees 
1876. P. H. Carpenter, Jour. Anat. and Tats ttl, X, p. 583. 
A nomen nudum. 
1884. von Grarr, Challenger Reports, X, Zoology, Pt. 27, pp. 
16, 20. 
