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From Kiu-Sliiu and the Goto Island are eollectod: 1) Comissin 

 parvulüy 2) Gomantlms pinguis, 3) Caioptometra Haiilmibi, 4) Cyllomctra 

 manca, 5) Cyllomeira pukheUa, 0) Neometra multicolor, 7) ÄHteromeira macro- 

 poda, 8) Perissometra aranea, 9) Fsathyrometra Wireni, 10) Enjthrometra 

 rubra, \\) Metacrinus nobilis tenuis, 12} M. interruptus, 13)1/. interruptus 

 form. ornatus and 14) M. rotundus or 14 species, including 3 new species 

 and a new form. N:r 1 und 14 are common with the Crinoid fauna of 

 the Sagami bay, n:r 11, 12 and 13 with that of the Benin Islands. 



From the Benin Islands there are: 

 1) Goriialella bracliycirra, 2) G. maculala, 3) G. stelligera. 4) Gomissia pere- 

 grina magnifica, 5) G. ignota minuta, 6) Gomaster delicata grandis, 7) G. 

 serrata, 8) Gomantheria grandicalyx, 9) G. grandicalyx ßagellipinna, 10) 

 Gomanthus annulata, 11) G. parvicirra a comasteripinna, 12) C. parvicirra 

 ß comanihipinna, 13) Gatoptometra magnifica minor, 14) Eudiocrinus indi- 

 visus, 15) Eu. gracilis pulchelhis, iô^Eu. Loveni, 17) Liparometra grandis, 

 18) Genometra hclla, 19) Gyllometra alhopurpurea, 20) G. discifiormis 21) 

 Tropiometra encrinus, 22) Pterometra trichopoda, 23) Ästerometra anthus, 

 24) Stenometra dentata, 25) Diodontometra Bockt, 2ö) Gompsometraparvißora, 

 27) Dorometra nana, 28) D. parvicirra, 29) Glarkometra elegans, 30) Meta- 

 crinus nobilis tenuis, 31)3/ interruptits, 32) il/, interruptus form, ornatus. 

 Among these 32 species there are 2 belonging to new genera, 5 new 

 species, 7 new varieties, and one new form. N:r 1 1 and 17 are also found 

 in the Sagami-list, N:rs 30, 31 and 32 in the one from the Goto Islands. 



As to the Sagami-species one can note some forms from a depth 

 of 100—400 fathoms (182 — 728 metres) which have not before been 

 found north of the archipelago of the Sunda-Islands. Probably it is 

 the warm Kuro-Shio stream which passes northwards along the eastern 

 shore of Japan that has brought up the larva-stages of these southern 

 species and that makes their duration in this northern waters possible. 

 According to the statement of Mr A. H. Clark and the holothurian 

 specialist Dr. H. Ohshima a southern woof continues to assert itself in 

 the marine fauna up to the Sendai Bay, i. e. somewhat north of the 

 38* latitude. The prominent point and Kingwa-San here prevent fur- 

 ther penetrating of the warm water and of southern forms and marks 

 the northern boundary of Indo-pacific animals. Gomissia parvula was 

 previously found at the Philippine Islands and the smaller Sunda-Islands 

 at a depth of 73 — 522 metres. In the Bockian Collections the species 



