334 BULLETIN 82, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



and Hup6 in 1862. In a paper on the crinoids of the Leyden Museum published in 

 1911 I compared a specimen of a species of Tropiometra labeled "Indian Ocean" with 

 T. carinata, of which I said that the cirri are distinguished by their very short seg- 

 ments. I also compared it with T. picta. In my memoir on the Recent crinoids of 

 Australia published in 1911, 1 inserted encrinus in the key to the Australian species of 

 the genus Tropiometra, giving Queensland as the locality, and later said of T. encrinus 

 that there are no definite Australian records, but that I had examined a number of 

 specimens labeled "South Pacific" that possibly came from Australia. The specimens 

 labeled "South Pacific" and assumed to be T. encrinus came in reality from Eio de 

 Janeiro and represent T. carinata (see p. 3 19). A specimen of T. ajra with the same label 

 is presumably from Queensland, and this gave rise to the confusion. In describing a 

 7-rayed specimen of Dichrometra tenera (=Lamprometra gyges) from Perth, Western 

 Australia, in 1911 I said that it is not uncommon to find specimens of Tropiometra 

 picta- (=carinata) from Rio de Janeiro with six rays. 



Dr. August Reichensperger in 1912 mentioned the cases of partial regeneration of 

 the cirri in Antedon carinata recorded by Carpenter and Minckert, and said that, as 

 far as he knew, this was the only species in which it had been reported. 



Hartlaub in his memoir on the Blake comatulids published in 1912 listed Antedon 

 carinata as among the species sent him with the Blake collection, though it was not 

 taken by that ship. He said that this species has an enormous range, being found 

 near St. Lucia in the Caribbean Sea, in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, and also on 

 the Pacific coast of South America. Under the heading Antedon carinata he gave a 

 detailed synonymy, and listed 16 specimens in the material submitted to him. These 

 were: (1) Three medium sized specimens with the indefinite locality Fiji (?), Kings- 

 mills (?) [in reality from Rio de Janeiro; see p. 319]; (2) four larger and one smaller 

 specimens from Zanzibar, C. Cooke, Edw. Rosses, Cheney Webb, collectors, 1862, 

 1868 (M. C. Z. 20); (3) one medium sized specimen from off the Abrolhos, Brazil, in 

 30 fathoms, Hassler expedition, January 20, 1872; (4) seven specimens, one large, two 

 of medium size, and four small, from St. Lucia (lat. 1352' N., long. 6107' W.), taken 

 by the cable repair ship Investigator, Capt. E. Cole, in 1879. He described these 

 specimens in great detail. He noted that a specimen from ?Fiji had a cirrus showing 

 partial regeneration. This was the specimen recorded by Minckert in 1905 without 

 any indication as to its origin. Hartlaub concluded his account of this species with a 

 notice of the author's remarks on the 6-rayed specimens from Rio de Janeiro. 



In a paper on the crinoids of the Hamburg Museum published in 1912, I recorded 

 two dry specimens of Tropiometra carinata from Mauritius, and 29 specimens of 

 T. picta from four localities along the Brazilian coast, together with two without 

 locality. In a paper on the crinoids of the Berlin Museum published in the same 

 year I recorded a specimen of Tropiometra carinata from Madagascar that bore the 

 label "Actinometra Solaris," one from Zanzibar collected by Count von der Decken, 

 and four lots including 28 specimens from Mauritius, giving notes on the last. I also 

 recorded and gave notes OQ 41 specimens from Brazil, 39 of which were from Rio de 

 Janeiro, one of these having 11 arms. In my memoir on the crinoids of the Indian 

 Ocean published late in 1912 I said that in 1815 Dr. William Elford Leach had de- 

 scribed Alecto carinata, which is supposed to be the Comatula carinata of Lamarck, 

 and which may have come from India. I gave all the previous records for carinata, 



