98 General Notes. 



OWEN'S RECENT ENCRINITE IDENTIFIED. 



In 1862 Sir Richard Owen wrote (Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (3), vol. 9,* 

 p. 486) "I learn from a correspondent at Melbourne, Mr. J. S. Poore, 

 that during his visit to King George's Sound, Western Australia, he there 

 dredged up from 8 fathoms a living Encrinite. The stem, which was 

 attached to a stone, was about 6 inches long; the arms about 1^4 inch, of 

 a beautiful rose-colour or pink, fading to white." Dr. P. H. Carpenter, 

 commenting upon this, says (Challenger Reports, vol. 11, Zoology, p. 428) 

 " This may perhaps have been a Pentacrinoid larva, but if so, it was of 

 most unusual size." It seems most probable, however, that this was 

 really a small Umbellularian ; one of Kolliker's figures of the young of 

 Umbellularia carpenteri, taken by the Challenger in the seas southwest of 

 Australia, shows an animal sufficiently like a crinoid to deceive even a 

 fairly skilled zoologist, and of the size described by Owen. The color as 

 given is certainly suggestive of an Umbellularian, and, moreover, does 

 not occur in any of the small stalked crinoids, nor in any pentacrinoid 

 larvae. 



— Austin H. Clark. 



NOTE ON AGARNA CARINATA SCHICEDTE AND MEINERT. 



Recently in referring to Haller's paper "Ueber einige neue Cymothoi- 

 nen,"* my attention was called to a new species described therein as 

 Livoneca cumulus from Guadeloupe. The species described later by 

 Schicedte and Meinertt as Agarna carinata from the West Indies is un- 

 doubtedly identical with this form. The correct name for the species is 

 therefore Agarna cumulus (Haller). 



— Harriet Richardson. 



SC1URUS POLIOPUS LYON CHANGED TO SCIURUS CONIPUS. 



Sciurus poliopus Lyon (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol.40, p. 88, April 25, 

 1911) applied to a gray-footed plantain-squirrel from southeastern Borneo 

 is preoccupied by Sciurus variegatus poliopus Fitzinger (Sitz. k. k. Akad. 

 wiss. Wien, math.-naturw. CI. vol. 45, Abth. 1, p. 478, March, 1867), 

 applied to a Mexican squirrel. The former may be called Sciurus conipus. 



— Marcus Ward Lyon, Jr. 



CAPTURE OF SOREX DISPAR IN WEST VIRGINIA. 



This rare shrew, originally described as Sorex macrurus and since re- 

 named dispar,i has previously been known only from 10 specimens taken 

 in the Adirondack and Catskill Mountains of New York. The capture 

 of a specimen in West Virginia is, therefore, quite unexpected and of 

 great interest. The specimen referred to I trapped on July 24, 1909, on 

 the cool north slope of Winding Gulf, about four miles southwest of 



* Archiv-fur Natur-Geschichte, 1880, 46th year, Vol. I, pp. 383-386, 391, figs. 13-15. 

 + Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift (3), Vol. XIV, 1883-84, pp. 328-334, pi, xni, figs, 1-6, 

 J See page 97, this volume. 



