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To adopt the name of pistillans in stead of baculosa I must, for the reasons given above, regard as 

 unwarranted. 



Schleinitzia crennlnris (p. 20). — The specimen figured by Studer cannot be identified any 

 longer with certaintv in the museum of BerHu; a dried specimen without label resembles the figure 

 rather much, but not quite — it is C. baculosa var. aiiiiuU/cra. Two other specimens in alcohol are 

 Stcphaiiocid. bispinosa^ a form witli little thorny spines as in var. raiiisayi Doderl. (op. cit. p. 697). In 

 the glass together with one of these specimens is found a loose spine of C. baculosa var. annulifera. 

 No more specimens are found in the museum of Berlin. Thus Sclilciiiitzia crcuularis is = Cidaris bacu- 

 losa var. annulifera and Sfrpliaiioc. bispniosa. 



Acantlwcidaris curvntispinis (p. 21). Of this species I found a specimen, also from Mauritius, 

 in the museum of Paris, called Dorocidaris? The globiferous pedicellarise are quite as in the type 

 specimen; sometimes the two outmost teeth at the mouth ma>- be united at the point and thus form 

 an apparent end tooth. Tridentate pedicellaria; were not found on this specimen. 



Histocidaris clcgans (pp. 21—22). By a renewed examination of all the specimens in British 

 Museum I have not been able to find any globiferous pedicellarite; accordingly the valve figured on 

 PI. IX. Fig. 2, with two end-teeth is evidently an abnormity having nothing to do with this species. 

 The genus Histocidaris then seems only to have tridentate pedicellarise. 



Stereocidaris nutrix {Gonioc. iiionbranipora Studer) (p. 26). I have examined all the specimens 

 of this species in the museum of Berlin; none of them have young ones on the periproct, but two 

 have young ones round the mouth, quite as described by Wy v. Thomson. The remark by Studer 

 quoted on p. 26 is thus incorrect, it must apply to his G. vivipara. No specimen of this species in the 

 nurseum of Berlin carries an>- longer young ones, but some >oung are lying in a couple of small 

 glasses together with them. Accordingly \\\\ interpretation of Sfcrroc. )/itlrix and canalictilata is no 

 doubt correct. 



Porocidaris purpurala. A couple of large, fine specimens in the museum of Paris (:Taiisman» 

 Riv. Ouro. 1439 m.) differ from the common form by the fact that in the uppermost (1 — 2) radioles of 

 each series the neck is swollen in a fusiform manner and of a fine violet colour; the other spines are 

 quite cylindric. Otherwise it agrees with purpurala, also the pedicellarise are quite as in this species. 

 I suppose it to be a separate species, but as I can give no other characters of it, I shall only desig- 

 nate it as a variety of P. purpurala under the name of var. Talismani n. var. 



Dorocidaris tiara. Of this species I have examined a specimen from Calcutta in the collection 

 of de Loriol. With regard to spines and pedicellarise it agrees exactly with Slep/ianoc. bracleala (Ag.\ 

 and so it is evidently a synonym of this species. 



Phorviosonia placenta. After the printing of the section of the Echinothurids, a glass was found 

 with some small young ones of this species from st. 25; the smallest ones have only a diameter of 

 3""\ and are thus considerably .smaller than the youngest stages of Echinothurids hitherto known')- 

 Thus it will be of great interest to get information of these younger stages. Agassiz has, in 

 «. Blake -Echini, given some informations of the development of Phormosovia, but as the youngest of 



M The specimen of ■ Asthenosoma^ hysti-ix of s.imm, mentioned and figured in Rev. of Ech. p. 273 (PI. II. c.i i.s scar- 

 cely an Echinothurid ; at all events there is neither in the description nor in the figures anything showing it. 



