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valves -40--50 mm., not including the loops, hut in florid anus, the 

 stalks are at hase about - 1 JO nun. thick and the blades of the valves 

 are in width '60 of the valve-length, while in interruptus, the stalks 

 are '30 mm. or more in thickness at base and the width of the 

 blades is only about '45 of the valve-length. 



The PIETER FAURE specimen of interruptus agrees well with the 

 VALDIVIA specimen in all the proportions of the test; the primary 

 spines seem however to have been relatively much shorter, for, 

 though all are now broken, it is practically certain none of them 

 were ever 100 mm. long. 



Koehler (1908, Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh, vol. 4(3, p. 641) records 

 a specimen of Coeloplwms from Ascension, which he says had ophi- 

 cephalous pedicellariae like those of the VALDIVIA specimen. As the 

 pedicellariae of floridanus had not then been figured, Koehler could 

 not have told whether the Ascension specimen is really nearer to 

 interruptus than to floridanus, and he very naturally noted the resem- 

 blance to the form, of which the pedicellariae had been figured. 

 It is very desirable to secure more material from near Ascension 

 and see whether the Coelopleurus living there is the West Indian, 

 the South African or an undescribed species. 



P.F. 18707. Algoa Bay, Cape Colony, 30 fms. [ specimen; fine 

 adult. 



TEMNOPLEURIDAE. 



The occurence of this family along the southern shore of Africa 

 is only that of a straggling interloper. It is not represented in the 

 PIETER FAURE collections and there are but three specimens in the 

 series sent me from the S. A. Museum. One of these represents a 

 well-known species of Salmacis, which has hitherto been recorded 

 from China and the Philippines in the east to the Red Sea and 

 Mozambique on the west, while the other two belong to an equally 

 well-known Temnopleurus with a similar range. Three other species 

 of Temnopleurids are recorded from South Africa, all by Uoderlein 

 (190(3) in his VALDIVIA Report; one is a second species of Temno- 

 pleurus (reevesii) but the other two represent a deep-water section 

 of the family. As regards the Temnopleurus, I am inclined to 

 think there is some mistake, for there was only a single small 

 specimen, and it was labelled as taken in 57 fms. about 70 miles 

 southeast of Cape Agulhas. As Doderlein certainly knows the species 

 of Temnopleurus, it seems unlikely that this can he a case of mista- 

 ken identification. And yet, since reevesii is not otherwise known 

 from east of Ceylon, I am loth to include it among South African 



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