ON THE 
BIC Ne) Ds Ws 
FOUND OFE THE COAST OF SOUTH AFPRICA. , 
PART IV. CRINOIDEA. 
BY 
ProFEssor F. TEFFREY BELL, M.A. 
(Plates II.—IV). 
The proportion of new species in this section of my report 
is not only very large as compared with the preceding sections, 
but is also large absolutely. As I took occasion to remark 
some twenty years ago, it is to the Crinoids with their stalked 
larvae that we must look to filling up lacunae in the details 
of the geographical distribution of Echinoderms. Proportion- 
ately to other Echinoderms, Crinoids are doubtless much 
richer in specific forms. The few species in the collection are 
represented by numerous specimens, with the pleasing result of 
elastic diagnoses. 
Antedon capensis (PI. II.) 
This species appears to be allied to Carpenter’s A. basicurva 
(see Chall. Report Comat., p. 102), but to differ from it and 
A. incisa by the larger number of cirrus-joints. 
The centro-dorsal is flat, bare in the centre, with two rows 
of very stout cirri, as much or more than 25 mm. long. Arms 
very stout, but so broken that their length cannot often be 
guessed, somewhat flattened from side to side; an almost 
complete arm is figured ; arm jomts overlap, and are often pro- 
vided with a median tooth, so that the arm, when viewed. 
from the side, appears to have a dorsal keel; the pinnules, 
which are steut and stiff, taper rather abruptly. The arms 
are beautifully spotted with purple. 
