450 THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. CHALLENGER. 



Bimrnsions.- — Diameter of the disk 015 to 0-2, of the medullary shell 0'05 to O'Ofi ; length 

 of the marginal spines 0-02 to 0-08, basal breadth Q-Ol to 0-03. 



Habitat. — Cosmopolitan ; Atlantic, Pacific, in various depths ; also fossil in Barbados and 

 Sicily. 



Subgenus 4. Heliodiscura, Haeckel. 



Definition. — Surface of the disk covered with radial spines. Bases of the marginal 

 spines connected by a solid equatorial girdle. 



19. Heliodiscus apollinis, n. sp. 



Disk with spiny or bristly surface, three times as broad as the medullary shell. Pores regular, 

 circular ; eleven to twelve on the radius. Equatorial girdle narrow, on the margin with sixteen 

 to twenty broad, flat, triangular teeth, which aie half as long and one-fourth as broad as the 

 medullary shell. (Very similar to AstropJiacus apollmis, PI. 32, fig. 2, but with simple medullary 

 .shell.) 



Dimensions. — Diameter of tlie disk O'lS, of the medullary .shell 0"06 ; length of the marginal 

 spines 0'03, basal breadth 0'015. 



Habitat. — Mediterranean (Corfu), Haeckel, surface. 



20. Heliodiscus zoroaster, n. sp. 



Disk wiih spiny surface, four times as broad as the medullary shell. Pores subregular, circular ; 

 fourteen to sixteen on the radius. Equatorial girdle broad, radially striped, on the margin with ten 

 to twelve pyramidal, deeply .sulcated radial spines, which are nearly as long as the radius of the 

 lUsk, and one-fourth as broad at the base. 



Dimensions. — Diameter of the disk 0-24, of the medullary shell 0'06 ; length of the marginal 

 spines Oil, basal breadth 0-03. 



Habitat. — Indian Ocean, between Aden and Cevlon, Haeckel, surface. 



Genus 194. Heliodrynnis,^ Haeckel, 1881, Prodromus, p. 457. 



Definition. — Phacodiscida with .simple meduUary sheU and with numerous 

 (ten to twenty or more) branched radial .spines on the margin of the disk (commonly 

 with a variable number and an irregular disposition of the ramified spines). 



The genus Heliodrynms differs from the nearly allied Heliodi.scus by the rami- 

 fication of the marginal spines, a character hitherto observed in no other genus of 

 Phacodiscida. The branching is more or less irregular, either a simple bifurcation or a 

 repeated fissure ; the spines and their' branches are commonly more or less flexuose. 



1 flcZiorfn/m«s= Sun-forest; "hiog, ?{S,<of. 



