274 Annals of the South African Museum. 



in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, identified and labelled by 

 Perrier as "Randasia granulata Gray, jeune Culdta areolata E. Per." 



CULCITA SCHMIDELIANA. 



Asterias schmideliana Retzius, 1805. Diss. A St., p. ?* 

 Culdta schmideliana Gray, 1840 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist, vol.0, p. "276. 

 Doderlein, 1896. Jena Denkschr., vol. 8, pi. 20, figs. 10-15. 



This species seems to be common at Zanzibar and has been 

 reported from Mozambique by Bell. A specimen is in the S. A. 

 Museum from Mozambique collected by K. H. Barnard, 1912. 



* CULCITA VENERIS. 

 Perrier, 1879. Arch. Zool. Exp., vol. 8, p. 48; pi. 4. 



This species then known only from the holotype, taken at St. Paul 

 Island in the southern Indian Ocean, was recorded by Bell (1905, 

 Rep. Mar. Inv. South Africa, vol. 3, pag. 248) from near the Cape 

 of Good Hope, in 2337 fms. In spite of the extraordinary inter- 

 est attaching to the rediscovery of so remarkable an animal, Bell 

 does not give a single bit of information in regard to his specimen 

 and we can only surmise that it was so much like the holotype in 

 size and appearance that he felt no doubt of their identity. 



PORANIIDAE. 



This family was not hitherto known from the vicinity of South 

 Africa, and it is represented in the PIETER FAURE collection by only 

 a single specimen. This however is of very great interest as it 

 proves to be an undescribed species of a little-known, and hitherto 

 monotypic genus of the North Atlantic. 



CHONDRASTER ELATTOSIS **, sp. nov. 

 Plate VIII. Fig. 4. 



R = 115 mm.; r = 75 mm.: R = 1'53 r. Disk elevated, v. d. 

 at center, 40 mm. Whole animal covered with a thick, smooth, 

 fleshy skin. Abactinal skeleton wanting or greatly reduced ; mar- 

 ginal plates present but very spongy and without spines or tubercles. 

 Papulae numerous, arranged in two parallel series, 20 mm. wide and 

 5 mm apart, along the median radial area; a few small groups of 

 papulae, occur irregularly near the center of the disk. Anal opening 



* Few writers have been able to consult this paper and no one has given the 

 page reference. The paper is not accessible to me. 



** i).acf6< to lessen, in reference to the reduction of the skeleton. 



