NOTES ON SOME SPECIES OF STRLLETTA 

 AND OTHl-m GENERA ALLIKD TO IT 



G. 0. J. VOSMAER. 



Dr. Emil von Marenzeller published not long ago a short and 

 interesting paper, entitled: — »üeber die adriatischen Arten der 

 Scbmidt'schen Gattungeu SteUetta und Ancorina' ^). Every spon- 

 giologist will be tbautiful to the author for tbis bit of Augias- 

 würk , and likewise agree with bis sentence: — »Ich erlcannte 

 bald das einzige Mittel, die Scbmidt'schen Namen für die Wis- 

 senschaft feruerbin brauchbar zu macbeu , in der Nachuntersu- 

 chung der Originalexemplare". 



As I have also been able to study raany of Schmidt's original 

 specimens, and compared them to living and well-preserved ones, 

 it niigbt perhaps be useful to state in how far I can agree with 

 Marenzeller. On the whole I came almost to the same results, 

 which are already worked out and illustrated for my Monograph 

 of the Incalcaria of the Bay of Naples. 



Schmidt erected the genus SteUetta in 1862 and then described 

 five species. I have already stated in another paper ~) that I 

 could not consider S. mamillaris and discophora as belonging to 

 SteUetta. About the three other species, viz. grubii, toageneri and 



1) Annalen des K. K. Naturhistorischen Hofmaseums. Wien. Bd. IV. 1889 



2) Bronn's Klassen and Ordnungen. p. 319. 



