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of each arm of cubensis are wall-sided, while they are not so in balanoides. He also em- 

 phasized the greater elaboration of the prominences on the centrodorsal in cubensis. 

 H. L. Clark unfortunately made no comment on the shape of the proximal brachials of 

 his specimen, but as it did retain the bases of some cirri, unlike the holotj^pe of cubensis, 

 he was able to contrast these with the stumps remaining on the Blake holotype of 

 balanoides, which was presumably from station 151. Carpenter's description and 

 figures (and more particularh' those of Hartlaub) of this specimen show that there are 

 three or four short segments at the base of the cirri followed by much more elongated 

 segments. H. L. Clark describes the cirri of the Atlantis specimen as having onh'^ the 

 first segment short, the second being already twice as long as broad and the following 

 ones progressiveh' longer. He comments that they are much more slender and cylindri- 

 cal than in balanoides, where they are apparently rather flattened laterally, at least at 

 the base. If the enlargements given in Hartlaub's captions to his plate 14 are accurate, 

 the height of the centrodorsal in the holotype of balanoides is about 4 mm. and only a 

 little larger than that of the Atlantis specimen. Such a small difference in size would 

 not be sufRcient to account for the more slender cirri of the Atlantis specimen, and I am 

 inclined to believe that it is H. L. Clark who is correct in thinking that two distinct 

 species of Atelecrinus do occur in the West Indian area. However, with no material at 

 hand but the single Challenger specimen of balanoides, which lacks the cirri, I can come 

 to no conclusion about this problem. The differences in the ornamentation of the cen- 

 trodorsal, in the shape of the proximal brachials, and particularly in the cirri, may well 

 prove to provide valid distinctions, but until more material is available, I am leaving 

 cubensis (jiourtalesi) in the synonymy of balanoides, where Mr. A. H. Clark placed it. 



ATELECRINUS HELGAE A. H. Clark 



Atelecrinus helgae A. H. Clark, Fisheries, Ireland, Sci. Invest., 1913, pt. 4, p. 4 (description; Helga 

 sta. CXX; comparisons). — Unstalked crinoids of the Siboga-Hxped., 1918, p. 267 (in key; range); 

 The Danish I ngolf -Exped., vol. 4, No. 5, Crinoidea, 1923, p. 44 (range [inchidinc; that of an un- 

 recorded specimen]). — Gisl£n, Zool. Bidrag Uppsala, vol. 9, 1924, pp. 43, 47, 53 (obliquity of 

 articulations), p. 83 (additional data); fig. 12, p. 45; figs 25, 26, p. 50; fig. 91, p. 81; fig. 117, p. 

 93. — MoRTENSE>f, Handbook of the echinoderms of the British Isles, 1927, p. 22 (diagnosis; 

 localities) ; fig. 10, p. 23. — Koehlee, Les ^chiuodermes des raers d'Europe, vol. 2, 1927, p. 133 

 (listed).— GisLfiN, Ark. Zool., vol. 19, No. 32, 1928, p. 13. 



Diagnostic features. — This species very closely resembles A. balanoides, from which 

 it seems to differ only in being smaller and in having the centrodorsal sharplj- conical 

 and only very sUghtly longer than the basal width. 



Description. — The centrodorsal is sharply conical, 2.5 mm. in diameter at the base 

 and 3 mm. long interradially, measured along its side [probably about 2.75 mm. in 

 vertical height — A.M.C.]. The cirrus sockets are arranged in 2 regular very closely 

 crowded columns in each radial area, 3 or 4 to a column. On either side of each cirrus 

 socket is a subtriangular thickening, the swollen fulcral ridge, which is produced out- 

 ward and shghtly downward (distallj-) so that the centrodorsal has a strongly serrate 

 profile. In the midradial Ime these processes fomi a zigzag line running down the 

 center of the radial area. In the interradial lines thej" lie on either side of a very narrow 

 shtlike furrow. In the basal portion of the centrodorsal there are 5 prominent in- 

 terradial ridges which run from the produced center of each basal downward, becoming 

 narrower, sharper and lower, disappearing between the proximal cirrus sockets. 



The cirri are XXXV, all lacking. 



