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they are rather large (ca. o'S'"'" length of head), and the thick, probably glandular,' dark pigmented 

 skin makes them ver}' conspicuous objects. 



The rostrate pedicellari;e (PL XVII. Figs. 17, 40, 50) have very short valves, joining in the 

 outer half (or more) of tlie blade. In fact, it is rather difficult to recognize the rostrate type of pedi- 

 cellarise in this form, but a conipari.son with the corresponding form in the other species leaves no 

 doubt thereof. The edge is very finely serrate in the outer part of the !;lade, smooth in the lower 

 part, as is also the edge of the basal part. The form of the basal part is not always as shown in 

 the figure 40, PI. XVII, it is equally often without the narrowing towards the articular surface. The 

 neck is well developed, and is sometimes found somewhat retracted over the upper end of the stalk, 

 in a manner recalling tlie globiferous pedicellariae of Strongylocentrotus (comp. Part I. [). 163 PL XX. 

 Figs. 25, 29). There may be a small ring at the lower end of the stalk. They are rather small, scar- 

 cely more than ca. 0-2 — 03'"'" length of head. — It is probably this form which Koehler mentions 

 and figures under the name of ;pedic. gemmiforme ■ (Sur les Echinocard. de la Mediterr. p. 184. PL 4. 

 12), though I have not found any pedicellarite resembling that figure very closely; probably it is not 

 really of Ech. flavesceus. 



The tridentate pedicellarise (PL XVII. Figs. 11, 27, 31, 41) have broad, leafshaped valves, differing 

 .somewhat in outline, as seen in the figures; in the small specimens the valves join in their whole 

 length, in larger ones the lower part is more or less narrowed, the edges being apart in about the 

 lower half of their length. The edge of the narrowed part is rather coarsely serrate, often with the 

 teeth placed in rather distant transverse series of 2 — 3 teeth in eacli; the edge of the outer part, 

 where the valves join is closely and finely serrate in the usual way. There may be some me.shwork 

 at the bottom of the blade in the larger specimens. Sometimes four-valved specimens occur. The apo- 

 physis ma\- be finely serrate at its upper end. The neck is well developed; the stalk may have a 

 rather distinct riug below for the fastening of the muscles. They reach a considerable size, up to ca. 

 j.^mm length of head. — It is to be remarked that the stalk of the tridentate, rostrate and triphyllous 

 pedicellarice in the species of Echinocardiuin consists of slender rods, which are almost not at all con- 

 nected by transverse rods, except above and below ; they differ herein from most other Spatangoids. 

 — The large tridentate pedicellaria figured by Koehler (Echinocard. de la Mediterr. PL 4.13) differs 

 considerably from those figured here; in fact, I have never seen any tridentate pedicellaria resembling 

 that figure in any of the numerous specimens of Echi>iocard. flavesceus which I have examined. On 

 the other hand I have found a quite similar form in a specimen received from Professor Koehler 

 under the name of Echinocard. peiuiatifidnm from Tamaris s. Mer (Var). There seems to be some mis- 

 take here. (Comp. below, p. 142 — 4). 



The ophicephalous pedicellariae (PL XVII. Figs. 7, 8) I have found only in young .specimens (up 

 to a size of 18'"'"); they occur only on the actinal side in the naked posterior (bivial) ambulacra, and 

 may be very numerous. As is usual in Spatangoids they have no neck, the head resting directly on 

 the upper end of the stalk which is cupshaped widened; the stalk otherwise is composed of a rather 

 close, irregular meshwork. The valves are elongate, slender, widened towards the point, the basal part 



1 Koehler iRech. sur les Ech. des Cotes de Provence, p. 1301 however, states that no .substance muqueuse» is 

 found here. 



