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Type-locality.—30° 34’ 00’ north latitude, 129° 19’ 30’’ east 
longitude (Eastern Sea) ; 440 fathoms. U.S. 8S. Albatross. 
pubescens=becoming downy. U.S. National Museum. 
Antedon pulchella Pourraurs, 1878 (not Ganymeda |= Antedon| 
pulchella Gray, 1834). 
1878. Pourratns, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., V, No. 9, p. 216. 
Type-locality.—West Indies. 
pulchella=pretty. Museum of Comparative Zoology. - 
This is the same species as Antedon alata Pourtalés, 1878, 
described on the previous page; alata is, of course, the name 
which must be used. Doctor Carpenter discarded alata and used 
pulchella because he thought the latter more appropriate. 
Pulchella is, moreover, preoccupied. 
Antedon pulcher Harriavurn, 1893. (“Liitken MS.”) 
1898. Harrnaus, Nova Acta Acad. German., LVIII, No. 1, 
. 1s Us 
A nomen nudum. 
pulcher=beautiful. 
Antedon pumila Betx, 1884. 
1884. Bri, Rep. Zool. Coll. H. M.S. Aleré, p. 157, pl. x, figs. 
B, B a, 6; first mentioned, p. xiii. 
Type-locality.—Port Jackson; 0 to 5 fathoms. H. M.S. Alert. 
pumila=a dwarf. : - British Museum. 
This is a pure synonym of Antedon lovent Bell, 1882, being 
founded on the same specimen. 
On pl. x there are two figures lettered *“ B;” the present 
species 1s represented by the lower fig. B, the upper one being a 
misprint for “C.” | 
Antedon pusilla P. H. Carrenrar, 1888. 
1888. P. H. Carpenter, Challenger Reports, X XVI, Zoology, 
p. 103, pl. xxi, fig. 1; detailed Cresta puO, p. 181; first 
mentioned, p- ae 
Ty pe-locality. ise 49’ 15”’’ south latitude, 182° 14’ 15’” east 
longitude (near the Ki Islands); 140 fathoms. H. M. S. 
Challenger. A 
pusilla= little. British Museum. 
Antedon quadrata P. H. Carpenter, 1884. 
1884, P. H. Carpenter, Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinb., 1884, p. 375. 
Ty pe-locality.—60° 29’ 40’’ north latitude, 8° 21’ west longitude ; 
or 60° 31’ 15’’ north latitude, 8° 14’ west longitude (north 
Atlantic) ; 327 to 480 fathoms. H. M.S. Zriton. 
quadrata=quadrate (in reference to the brachials). 
British Museum. 
