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in the Challenger report, is clearly preoccupied by the Comaster of Agassiz. The 

 perversion by Miiller of this latter name is explained, and for Comaster, as used by 

 Muller (that is, with the type Comatula multiradiata Goldfuss, not Lamarck= J 4Zecfo 

 bennetti Muller), he suggested the term Goldfussia, which, however, was promptly 

 shown by Dr. F. A. Bather to be preoccupied and therefore unavailable. 



The work of the two French steamers, the Travailleur and the Talisman, had 

 resulted in the discovery of many interesting crinoids off the coast of southern 

 Europe and northwestern Africa. Scattered references to these are found in the 

 writings of E. Perrier, Captain Parfait, de Folin, and of the Marquis de Filhol, 

 but they are mostly very indefinite and unsatisfactory. Interest in these crinoids 

 appears to have soon died out, and no detailed report upon them has as yet been 

 published. 



In 1892 Professor Bell recorded some crinoids which had been dredged off the 

 west coast of Ireland, and described a new species from Mauritius, Antedon emen- 

 datrix (Cenometra emendatrix) which is difficult to understand owing to the inade- 

 quateness of the description and to the lack of correlation between the description 

 and the figures. In the same year he published a useful epitome of the knowledge 

 in regard to the British comatulids. The account of the comatulids which had 

 been collected by the Norwegian North Atlantic Expedition, by Prof. D. C. Dan- 

 ielssen, also appeared in this year, as well as a list of Norwegian species, by Miss 

 L. Buckley, from the dredgings of the steam yacht Argo. 



In 1893 Professor Bell reported upon a small collection of crinoids from the 

 Sahul Bank, north of Australia, describing one new species, Antedon wood-masoni 

 (Cosmiometra woodmasoni) . 



In 1894 de Loriol again recorded Tropiometra carinata from Mauritius; Prof. 

 Georg Pfeffer recorded some species from east Spitzbergen ; Mr. Edgar Thurston 

 recorded a number of forms from various localities in southeastern India, the 

 identifications having been furnished by Professor Bell, and Professor Bell published 

 an account of the crinoids of Macclesfield Bank, near the Philippines, adding to 

 it lists of the species known from northwestern Australia and from the Arafura 

 and Banda Seas. The crinoids he gives are: 



MACCLESFIELD BANK. 



Eudiocrinus granulatus, sp. nov Eudiomnus indivisus. 



Antedon carinata Oligometra serripinna. 



Antedon ?spicata Stephanometra tuberculata. 



Antedon inopinata, sp. nov Himerometra robustipinna. 



Antedon bassett-smithi, sp. nov Comatella stelligera. 



Antedon vicaria, sp. nov Mariametra vicaria. 



Antedon brevicirra, sp. nov Comaster dktincta. 



Antedon Jlavomaculata, sp. nov Stephanometra monacantha. 



Antedon moorei, sp. nov Lamprometra protectus. 



Antedon fieldi, sp. nov (?) 



Antedon Ivariispina Mariametra vicaria. 



Actinometra fimbriata Capillaster multiradiata. 



Actinometra parvicirra Comanthus parvicirra. 



Actinometra bennetti. .. . . Comanthus bennetti. 



