no. 1S0S. RECENT AFRICAN CRINOIDH— VI. M{ Ik. 15 



2. The South European-Northwest African-Antillean di- 

 vision, extending from Madeira and Morocco northward to the 

 Bay of Biscay and westward to and including the Caribbean Sea; 



3. The West African South-American division, including the 

 coast south of Morocco and the opposite coast of Brazil, with the 

 intervening islands; 



4. The Southeast African division, extending from Mombasa to 

 Cape Town, and eastward to include Madagascar, the Seychelles, 

 Reunion, and Mauritius, and the intervening islands eastward to the 

 Chagos archipelago; the southern part of this division, comprising the 

 coasts of Cape Colony and Natal, forms the Cape subdivision; and 



5. The Northeast African division, extending from Somaliland 

 northward throughout the Red Sea and eastward to the Persian Gulf. 



The West African-South American division is an attenuated off- 

 shoot from the South European-Northwest African-Antillean divi- 

 sion, which itself is derived from the Southeast African division, the 

 last the somewhat modified southwestern extremity of the great Indo- 

 Pacific-Japanese faunal area. 



The European faunal division is probably an attenuated offshoot 

 from the Northeast African division, which itself is the considerably 

 modified northwestern extremity of the great Indo-Pacific- Japanese 

 faunal area. 



ANNOTATED LIST OF SPECIES. 



I. COMATULIDS. 



Suborder OUGOPHREATA. 



Family COMASTERIDJE. 



Subfamily CAPILLASTERINJE. 



Genus NEOCOMATELLA A. H. Clark. 



NEOCOMATELLA (new species). 



Actinometra pulchella (part) P. H. Carpenter, Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh, vol. 

 12, 1884, p. 369; Challenger Reports, vol. 26, Zoology, 1888, p. 304— Kcehler 

 and Vaney, Bull, du nius. d'hist. nat., 1910, No. 1, p. 32. 



Localities.— -West of Gibraltar (lat. 35° 56' N.; long. 7° 06' W.); 

 northeast of the Seine Bank (lat. 34° 57' N.; long. 11° 57' W.): off 

 Cape Penas; south of Cape St. Vincent (lat. 35° 26' N.; long. 9° 09' 

 W.); south of the Canary Islands (lat. 25° 41' N.; long. 18° 16' W.). 



Depth.— 228-533 fathoms. 



Bottom temperature. — 50.5° Fahr. (one record). 



Bottom. — Clay (one record). 1 



i Comatula solario has been recorded from the east coast of Africa (Zanzibar) by Professor von Martens, 

 but the record appears to have been based upon a specimen of Tropiomctra carinata. 



