Crinoids are verv few in the collections upon which the „Beiträge 

 zur Kenntnis der Meeresfauna Westafrikas" are basod; although all of the 

 known west Afriean material has previously been recorded, still a discussion 

 of the geographical relationships of the Crinoid fauna of the Atlantic Ocean, 

 and particularlv of the west eoast of Africa, may profitably be incorporated 

 in the series of treatises on the marine fauna of western Africa. 



As at present understood the Africau records for species of this elass 

 represent the species as follows, regardless of the names under which they 

 were originally published: 



Antedon Hupfevi Hartl. 



1882, Antedon rosacea K. Gkeeff, in : Zool. Anz., V, p. 159. 



1890, Antedon Hupf er i, Cl. Haktlaub, in: Nachr. Ges. Göttingen, Mai 1890, p. 171. 



1891, „ „ „ in: Nova Acta Leopold. Card., LYIII, p. 88, 



Taf. 5, Fig. 53, 59. 



Localities: Ivory Coast, Wapoo, ca. 40 m: C. Hupfer, 5. Dec. 1887 

 (Type specimen). 

 II ha das Rolas near II ha de Saö Thome: Dr. R. Greeff. 



Antedon niovoccana A. H. Clark 



1911, Antedon bifida, A. H. Clark, in: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XL, p. 38. 

 1914, Antedon moroccana, A. H. Clark, (see beyond). 



Locality: Senegal, Cloree (teste A. H. Clark). 



Further Distribution: Mediterranean (Ajaccio, Messina'), Algiers, 

 Tangier, coa.sts of Morocco), Azores, Bay 

 of San Pedro, Madeira, Canary Islands 



(Lanzarote). 



') A. mediterranea also occurs in Sicily. I have not examined the specimens from 

 the Bay of Benzert (Bizerta) in Tunis ; tliese may be referable either to A. moroccana or 

 to A. mediterranea, thougli most probably to the latter, which occurs in the Cyclades. 



