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nema in Paris, and in a report on the crinoids of the Paris Museum published in 191 1 I 

 wrote: "Cette espece est indubitablement la m§me que la Ptilometra dorcadis que 

 j'ai d^crite de I'ile Dirk Hartog (Australie occidentale) . Elle se trouve dans I'Ouest 

 et le Sud de I'Australie, de Tile Dirk Hartog jusqu'd. Port Phillip et Kangaroo Island 

 en South Australia. Une deuxieme espece, dont tous les articles des cirres sone tres 

 courts, se trouve sur les cotes de New South Wales. Je I'ai nomm^e Ptilometra 

 Mulleri." I gave figures of the cirri of Ptilometra macronema and of P. mulleri. 

 In my report on the crinoids of the Hamburg Southwest-Australian Expedition, 1905, 

 published in 1911, I recorded and gave notes on six specimens presumably from the 

 vicinity of Perth. At the same time three specimens from Koombana Bay were 

 described which were said to be young individuals of this species. In reality, however, 

 they are specimens of Aporometra occidentalis. In a memoir on the recent crinoids of 

 Australia published in 1911 I gave a detailed comparison between Ptilometra maxro- 

 nema, under which I placed P. dorcadis as a synonym, and the species from the eastern 

 coast of Australia which 1 called P. mulleri. T recorded and gave notes on two speci- 

 mens from Kangaroo Island. Additional localities listed for the species were King 

 George Sound, Dirk Hartog Island, and Port Phillip. 



Dr. Clemens Hartlaub in 1912 in a discussion of Carpenter's Spinifera group 

 mentioned Antedon macronema from King George's Sound, Port Jackson, and Port 

 Stephens. The species occurring at the two last localities in P. australis. 



In a paper on the crinoids of the Museum fiir Naturkunde in Berlin published 

 in 1912 I listed nine specimens of Ptilometra macronema from "Southwestern AustraUa" 

 and one (the type of P. dorcadis) from Dirk Hartog Island. In my memoir on the 

 crinoids of the Indian Ocean published in 1912 the synonymy and the geographical 

 and bathymetrical ranges of Ptilometra macronema were given. In the synonymy is 

 included Antedon wilsoni Bell, which is Aporometra vnlsoni. In a paper on the 

 recent crinoids in the British Museum published in 1913 I Usted three specimens from 

 Port Phillip and two labeled "South Australia." Seven of the specimens listed from 

 Port Phillip, the types of Bell's Antedon vnlsoni, represent Aporometra wilsoni. In 

 1914 I recorded and gave notes on 10 specimens of Ptilometra macronema that had 

 been dredged by the Endeavour in June 1912 off Geraldton in 25-40 fathoms, and at 

 the same time W. B. Alexander included the species in his list of the Western Australian 

 echinoderms in the Western AustraUan Museum. In discussing the crinoid fauna 

 of southern Austraha in my memoir on the crinoids of the Antarctic published in 1915 

 I said that Ptilometra macronema "findet sich von Dirk Hartog-EUand, Westaustralien, 

 siidlich und ostlich bis Port Phillip, Victoria und bei Kangaroo-Eiland in 12,5-50 m 

 (6,9-28 Faden) Tiefe." In 1915 I gave a detailed account of the distribution of this 

 species ton the AustraUan coasts, and in 1916 Dr. Robert Hartmeyer published the 

 catalog numbers of the specimens in the Museum fiir Naturkunde in BerUn. 



In 1916 Dr. Hubert Lyman Clark recorded 10 specimens of Ptilometra macronema 

 from four localities in southern Australia where they had been collected by the 

 Australian Federal Fisheries Investigation Sliip Endeavour between 1909 and 1914. 

 In 1918 I referred to one of these locaUties (southeast of Flinders Island) as "Tas- 

 mania." In 1928 Dr. Clark recorded 47 specimens of this species, which he called 

 "the commonest Australian crinoid," from various locaUties in the vicinity of Spencer 

 Gulf and Encounter Bay where they had been collected by Sir Joseph Verco in 1892 



