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THE RECENT CRINOIDS OF AUSTRALIA CLAHK. 675 



the dissolution of the GodefFi'oy Company the museum was broken 

 up and its contents scattered, mostly, however, going to various 

 German institutions, where the specimens were accessible to 

 HfU'tlKub. Liilken had negotiated many exchanges, and had 

 sent out many specimens under the MS. names which he had 

 applied to the various species Hartlaub is therefore to be 

 commended for retaining Liitken's original names when describ- 

 ing the species, and thereby enabling those who have received 

 specimens determined by Liitken to know Avhat species they 

 represent, as well as making clear the identification of the 

 numerous tioniina nuda occurring in the catalogues of the 

 Oodeifroy Museum. 



In addition to describing and recording these various species 

 from Australia, Hartlaub discovered that the species culled by 

 Bell in 1882 Antedon insignis, which name he changed in 1884 

 to Antedon loveni, is in reality the same as the form described 

 by Carpenter in 1881 as Antedon liersinnosa. 



Professor Bell three years later published a list of the Echino- 

 <lerms of North-west Australia, including eleven species of 

 Crinoids. No definite localities are given, but he states that "the 

 chief localities are Holothuria Bank, Magnetic Shoal, Cossack 

 Island, and Baudin Island ('14° 08' S. lat., 125° 36' E. long.)." 



The depth alone is recorded with the various species, and the 



list as given is : — 



, ^ J -11 ^- o ic c ( Ainphinietra discoidea 



Aytteaon miLoerti ... ... 81orms. ■( /-,,/ , ^ . 



( (JLigometrd carpeiiteri 



Antedon serripinna ... ...24-39 ,, Oligoinetra carpenteri 



Atdedon variipinna ... 9-38 ,, Amphiinetra variipinna 



Antedon. a^^. (near tnacronema) 1 Cenometra cornnta 



... J ^.^ fi/^o/- ( Comatu/a pectinata 



Actmometra pectinata ...2U-od ,,<>-> ,7 



'^ { bomatula ptirpnrea 



Actinotnetra nohilis ... 65 ,, Gotnayithina belli 



Acliaometra paucicirra ... 8-15 ,, Comatula rotalari(i 



. . , ■ ■ n i Coniattda pectinata 



Actmometra parvicirra ... 9 ■,, \ n j? • x • 



' ( Lomantheria ortareus 



Actmometra variabilis ... 9-38 ,, Comanthus parvicirra 



, . , 7, • /? 7 n ( Coniaster tiipica 



Actmometra muttijida ... i <" ^, n-in- 



^ ( Loinantmna bett% 



Actinometra multiradiata ... % Capillasterniidtiradiata 



It is impossible to question the accuracy of a list of this nature 

 no matter how suspicious one may be of some of the records ; 

 but fortunately I was able to review Professor Bell's material 

 during my visit to London, and to reidentify all of the 

 specimens, 

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