44 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.40. 



long. 9° or W.); south of the Canary Islands (lat. 26° 17' N.; long. 

 17° 12' W.). 



This species occurs northward to the Faroe Islands. 



Depth.— 50-500 ( ?700) fathoms. 



Remarks. — As Carpenter, in discussing the specimen from Funehal 

 Bay, speaks of "the extreme shortness of the later cirrus joints," 

 which is the character by which Leptometra celtica is most readily 

 separated from L. phalangium, it has seemed best to refer the records 

 for the Atlantic coast of Africa and the outlying islands to the former 

 species. The specimens from off Cadiz and from off the Portuguese 

 coast, which I have recently examined, are undoubtedly this form. 



Professor Kcehler remarks that this species ranges westward across 

 the Atlantic, as Carpenter received specimens from Brazil, from a 

 cable picked up in between 915 and 1,280 meters; the specimens upon 

 which this statement was based were found on the Brazilian cable, 

 but at its Madeira end, near Funehal. 



LEPTOMETRA PHALANGIUM (J. MUller). 



Alecto phalangium J. Muller, Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, 1841, Heft 1, p. 142. 

 Antedon mediterrancus (part) Wyville Thomson, Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh, 



vol. 7, 1872, p. 765. 

 Antedon phalangium Marion, Ann. de sci. nat., ser. 6, vol. 8, 1879, p. 40, pi. 18. — 



P. H. Carpenter, Zool. Anzeiger, Jahrg. 4, 1881, p. 521 (part); Proc. Roy. 



Soc. Edinburgh, vol. 12, 1884, p. 361 (part); Challenger Reports, vol. 26, 



Zoology, 1888, p. 159 (part). 

 Leptometra phalangium A. H. Clark, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 21, 1908, 



p. 129. 



Localities. — Tunis; Bay of Benzert (Bizerta), Tunis; Skerki Bank, 

 off Tunis. 



This species occurs also along the French and Italian coasts of the 

 Mediterranean. 



Depth.— 30-120 fathoms. 



Family PENTAMETROCRINIDiE. 



Genus PENTAMETROCRINUS A. H. Clark. 



PENTAMETROCRINTJS ATLANTICUS (Perrier). 



Eudiocrinus atlanticus Perrier, Comptes rendus, vol. 96, 1883, p. 725. — 



Kcehler, Echinodermes provenant des campagnes du yacht Princesse- Alice, 



1909, p. 271, pi. 32, figs. 15-18. 

 Pentametrocrinus atlanticus A. H. Clark, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 21, 



1908, p. 135. 

 Etidiocrinus (Pentametrocrinus) atlanticus Kcehler and Vaney, Bull, du mus. 



d'hist. nat., 1910, No. 1, p. 31. 



Localities. — Azores; southeast of Terceira (lat. 38° 26' N.; long. 

 26° 30' 45" W.); Canary Islands; southeast of Arreceife (lat. 29° 

 06' 30" N.; long. 13° 02' 45" W.); between Madeira and Mogador 

 (lat. 32° 27' N.; long. 12° 15' W.). 



