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ECHINOIDEA. II. 



Sudero). The bathymetrical distribution of the species is, as far as hitherto known, from shallow water 

 to ca. 150 fathoms. 



Ech. pennatifidum is further stated to occur in the Mediterranean and at the American Coasts of 

 the Atlantic (Florida and West-Indies). The presence of the species in the Mediterranean at Tamaris- 

 sur-Mer 1 was announced by Professor Koehler, who has done me the very great service to send 

 me one of these specimens. A close examination thereof, however, shows that this specimen differs in 

 several respects considerably from pennatifidum. - - The labrum reaches to the second adjoining ambu- 

 lacral plates as in flavescens, whereas in pennatifidum it ends off the middle, or (in the largest speci- 

 men examined) even at the anterior end of the first ambulacral plate. Four ambulacral plates reach 

 within the subanal fascicle, which accordingly includes three pairs of pores; in pennatifidum three 

 plates reach within the fascicle, with two or only one pair of pores. The periproct is like that of 

 flavescens, very different from that of pennatifidum. The anal opening is rather eccentric, lying near 

 the upper edge, surrounded by small, irregular plates. The lower part of the anal area is bordered by 

 a series of large, regular plates, which diminish in size towards the upper edge; they are closely 

 covered by a fine granulation. The anal fascicle is in direct connection with the subanal fascicle, 

 whereas in pennatifidum it is separated from the latter by a rather broad band of coarser tubercles, 

 as is well seen in Koehler's Fig. 10. PL IV (Monaco); in young specimens this is, however, not the 

 case, the granulation of the two fascicles uniting in the median line. 



The number of pores in the petals differs considerably from what is, found in pennatifidum of 

 a corresponding size. I 'give here the measurements of the test and the number of pores in the petals 

 of this specimen, and, for comparison, of specimens of pennatifidum and flavescens of a correspon- 

 ding size. 



The internal fascicle seems to be larger than in pennati/fdrim ( unfortunately the anterior 

 part of the test is damaged, so that I cannot state that exactly ); in any case it is more remote 

 posteriorly from the apical system than in the specimen of 52""" length, of which the above measure- 

 ments are given in the latter the fascicle passes over the second plate in the posterior interambu- 

 lacrum, in the Mediterranean specimen it passes over the 4th 5th plate of the posterior interambula- 

 crum. The greatest width of the fascicle is io mm in the said specimen of pennatifidum, i3 mm in the 

 Mediterranean specimen; it is further to be remarked that one or two large tubefeet of the posterior 

 series of the anterior petals are within the fascicle, which is not the case in either pennatifidum or 



1 Sur la presence, en Mediterranee, de 1'Asteras rubens Linne et de 1'Echinocardium pennatifidum Norman. Zool. 

 Anzeiger. XXI. Nr. 567. 1898. 



