18 Mindeskrift for J. Steenstrup. X. 



be only quite an ordinary, typical Ophiurid. Unfortunately is haa been allowed to 

 remain in its false glory much too long. The inaccurate observations on Ophioteresis 

 have resulted in the classification of the Ophiurids given in the four main general 

 zoological text books of recent time, the „Treatise on Zoology", the „Traité de 

 Zoologie concrete", the „Cambridge Zoology" and „Bronn's Klassen u. Ordnungen", 

 being already out of date. 



