144 Proceedmgs of the Royal Society of Victoria. 



Lovenia fordesi, Woods and Duncan, Q.J.G.S., 1877, vol. 

 xxxiii., p. 56, pi. iv., figs. 5 to 8. 



Love?iia forbesi, McCoy, Prod. Pal. Vic, Dec. VI., 1879, pp. 

 37-40, pi. Ix., figs. 1-4. 



Sarsella fordesi, Pomel, Theses pai* A. Pomel, Class, method. 

 Ech. viv. et foss., Alger, 188.3, p. 28. 



Lovenia forbesi. Woods and Duncan. Q.J.G.S., 1887, vol. xliii.^ 

 pp. 424 to 426. 



Observations. — This very common echinoid has given rise to 

 more controversy and difference of opinion than any other of the 

 Australian Tertiary Echinoids, and as a consequence there is still 

 a gi'eat amount of confusion existing as to its correct generic 

 position, and as to the rightful author of the specific name. With 

 regard to the latter nothing could be more clearly expressed than 

 Professor P. M. Duncan's views on the subject in 1887, where it 

 is distinctly shown that Woods and Duncan should be regarded 

 as the authors of the species. Professor Duncan himself including 

 T. Woods' name on account of the assistance rendered to him by 

 the latter when describing the species. Sir F. McCoy states 

 "that it is impossible to divide this species into two as suggested 

 by Mr. Ethei-idge, jun. (Z. 7Voodsi and L. /orbesi), from the number 

 of primary tubercles in the posterior lateral interambulacra, 

 although I notice that those with the more numerous tubercles 

 are more common in the Murray Cliffs and more rare near Mel- 

 bourne, and that they are less pentagonal from a slightly greater 

 proportional length and less protuberant sides, and have the apex 

 usually farther from the posterior end and the posterior I'idge 

 stronger." The form of this species occurring at Table Cape 

 comes in the same group as the specimens from the River 

 Murray Cliffs. 



141. Cyclastei" archeri, T. Woods. 



Echinolampas., sp., T. Woods, Geo. Obs. in S.A., 1862, p. 77» 

 woodcut. 



Hemiaster archeri, T. AVoods, Trans. Phil. Soc. S.A., 1867, figs. 

 'la~2d. 



Micrasier brcvistella, Laube, Akad. d. Wiss. Wien, 1869, vol. 

 li.x., p. 192, fig. 8 



