Zoologisclier Anzeiger 



herausgegeben 



von Prof. Eugen KorSClielt in Marburg. 



Zugleich 



Organ der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft. 



Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann in Leipzig und Berlin. 



XLII. Band. 



4. Juli 1913. 



Nr. 5. 



Inhalt: 



I. wissenschaftliche Mlttellnngen. 



1. Fisher, A new species of Fcìiiiiastcr, with a 



note on the name Othilia. S. 193. 



2. Fernior, Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse einer 

 Reise von S. Awerinzew in die Tropen Afrikas. 

 S. 196. 



3. Ellis, Three Gregarines from Louisiana (With 

 2 figures.) S. 200. 



4. Enderlein, Die Stephaniden Formosas. S.202. 



5. Carl, Diplopodenstudien IT. (Mit 4 Figuren.) 

 S. 212. 



6. Plaget, Nouveaux dragages malacologiques 

 de M. le Prof. Yung dans la faune profonde 

 du Léman. (Avec 5 figures.) S. 216. 



7. Enderlein, Dipterologische Studien IL (Mit 



1 Figur.) S. 224. 



8. Fnhrniann, Die Atmungsorgane von Tinjpldo- 

 nectes. (Mit 7 Figuren.) S. 229. 



9. Baiss, Diagnosen neuer ostasiatischer Ma- 



cruren. S. 2:i4. 



II. Mitteilungen ans Museen, Instituten nsw. 



L Eine Deutsche Gesellschaft für angewandte 

 EntomolOjj'ie. S. 2:J9. 



2. Preisausschreiben. S. 240. 



I. Wissenschaftliche Mitteilungen. 



1. A new species of Echinaster, with a note on the name Othilia. 



By Walter K. Fisher, Stanford Universitj', California. 



eingeg. 12. April 1913. 



The genus Echinaster MüWer and Troschel (April, 1840) is usually 

 understood to include Othilia and Bhopia Gray (December 1840). In a 

 key to the genera of Echinasteridae in "Asteroidea of the North Pa- 

 cific, etc.", 1911, page 259, I recognized Othilia for those species which 

 have, in addition to abactinal papulae, also intermarginal papulae or 

 both intermarginal and actinal papulae, while the name Echinaster by 

 implication was reserved for Echinaster sepositus and allies, in which 

 there are neither intermarginal nor actinal papulae. 



Professor A. E. Ver rill, in a letter, dissents from this course. He 

 considers, moreover, that Asterias spinosa^ Retzius (1805), which I made 

 the type of Othilia Gray, is practically designated by Müller and 



^ Preoccupied by Asterias spinosa Pennant, 1777, = Asterias glaeialis Lin- 

 naeus, 1758> Asterias echinophora Lamarck, 1816, seems to be the next available 

 name. 



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