398 Annals of the South African Museum. 



* ECHINOLAMPAS OVATA. 



ovatus Leske, 1778. Add. ad Klein, p. 127. 



ornfa Doderlein. 1900. VALDIVIA Ech., p. '240. H. L. 

 Clark, 1917, Mem. M. C. Z., vol. 40, pi. 153, figs. 1, 2. 



This species is recorded in the "Revision" from the Cape of Good 

 Hope but it has not been met with in recent years anywhere on 

 the African coast south of the Red Sea. Evidently the South Afri- 

 can record needs confirmation. 



URECHINIDAE. 



There is only a single species of this little family known from 

 the region covered by this report. 



URECHINUS NARESIANUS. 



A. Agassiz, 1879. Proc. Amer. Acad., vol. 14, p. 207. 

 1881, CHALLENGER Ech., pi. XXX. 



Bell (1905, Mar. Inv. South Africa, vol. Ill, p. 173) lists this 

 species as occuring in the South African material he studied, but 

 he forgets entirely to give either place or depth. In the PIETER 

 FAURE collection is a lot of small urechinids in poor condition which 

 I refer to this species with little hesitation. They are all rubbed 

 more or less completely bare of spines and pedicellariae, and nearly 

 all are broken or crushed to a greater or less extent. They range 

 in length from 9.5 mm. to 21, but they show very little diversity 

 in form, the height being half the length or a little less. 



P.F. 17351. Cape Point, N. 83 E., 43 miles, 900-1000 fins. 

 Gr. m. 40 specimens; young, bare. 



POURTALESIIDAE. 



The occurrence of this extraordinary family in the vicinity of 

 South Africa was known only from a single small specimen identified 

 by Bell as Pourtalesia carinata A. Ag. one of the CHALLENGER echini, 

 a large pourtalesiid, 90-100 mm. long, taken in 1000 fathoms near 

 te Crozet Islands and at still greater depths further eastward. For- 

 tunately the South African Museum collection contains ten Pourtalesias 

 labelled as "duplicates of those sent to Bell". From these it is clear 

 that the species is not carinata but a much smaller pourtalesiid, not 

 very closely allied to that big, deep water form. 



