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ill tlio Cliallenger report, is clearly preoccupied by the Comaster of Agassiz. The 

 perversion by iliiller of this latter name is explained, and for Comaster, as used by 

 Miiller (that is, with the type Comatula multiradiaia Goldfuss, not Lam arck= J Zecto 

 brnneUi Miiller), lie suggested tlie term Goldfussia, which, however, was promptly 

 shown by Dr. F. A. Bather to be preoccupied and therefore unavailable. 



The work of the two Frencli steamers, the TravaiUeur and the Talisman, had 

 resulted in tlie discovery of many interesting crinoids oif tlie coast of southern 

 Europe and northwestern Africa. Scattered references to these are found in the 

 writings of E. Pcrrier, Captain Parfait, de Folin, and of the Marquis de Filhol, 

 but tliey are mostly very indefinite and unsatisfactory. Interest in these crinoids 

 appears to have soon died out, and no detailed report upon them has as yet been 

 published. 



In 1S92 Professor Bell recorded some crinoids which had been dredged off the 

 west coast of Ireland, and described a new species from Mauritius, Antedon emen- 

 datrix {Cenometra emendatrix) whicli is difficult to understand owing to the inade- 

 quateness of the description and to the lack of correlation between the description 

 and the figures. In the same year he pubhshed a useful epitome of the knowledge 

 in regard to tlie British comatulids. Tlio account of the comatulids which had 

 been collected by the Norwegian Xorth Atlantic Expedition, by Prof. D. C. Dan- 

 ielssen, also appeared in this year, as well as a list of Norwegian species, by Miss 

 L. Buckley, from the drcdgings of the steam yacht Argo. 



In 189.3 Professor Bell rcjjortcd upon a small collection of crinoids from the 

 Sahul Bank, north of Australia, describing one new species, Antedon wood-masoni 

 (Cosmiomeira woodmasoni) . 



In 1S94 de Loriol again recorded Tropiometra carinata from Mauritius; Prof. 

 Georg Pfeffer recorded some species from east Spitzbergen; Mr. Edgar Thurston 

 recorded a number of forms from various localities in southeastern India, the 

 identifications iiaving been furnished by Professor Bell, and Professor Bell published 

 an account of the crinoids of Macclesfield Bank, near the Pliihppines, adding to 

 it lists of the species known from northwestern Australia and from the Arafura 

 and Banda Seas. The crinoids he gives are: 



Macclesfield Bank. 



Eudiocrinus granulatus, sp. nov Eudiocrinua indivisu». 



Antedon carinata Oligometra serripinna. 



Antedon 7spicata Stephanonutra tuberculata. 



AnUdon inopinata, 8p. nov Jlimerometra robustipinna. 



Antedon bassett-smithi, sp. nov Comatclla slelligera. 



Antedon vicaria, sp. nov Mariamelra vicaria. 



Antedon bmicirra, sp. nov Comaster dUtincta. 



Antedon Jlavomanilnta, sp. nov Stephanometra monacantha. 



Antedon moorei, sp. no v Lamprometra protectus. 



Antedon fieldi, sp. nov (7) 



Antedon fvariispina Mariametra vicaria. 



Adinometra fimbriala Capillaster multiradmla. 



Actinomelra parvicirra Comanthus parvicirra. 



Adinometra bennetli Comanthus bennetti. 



