102A. E. Verrill on the Synonymy of the Sea-urchin. 
1862 the original Zoxopneustes section, calling it Toxocidaris, 
cannot affect the matter in the least, since in this instance there 
can be no doubt as to which group was originally designated 
by the name, Toxopneusies. Yet Mr. Agassiz in a recent paper™ 
goes considerably out of his way to bring up this matter again, 
and inserts the following note under Echinometra Michelini: 
‘I cannot see the propriety of the changes- made by Verrill in the 
limitation of Toxopneustes, by substituting Euryechinus for a group of 
chini, which are perfectly well known by all writers on Echinoderms 
totally distinct signification from what it has at the present day.” 
_ A formal reply to this is perhaps unnecessary, yet I would 
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x os : - Bulletin of the Museum of Comp. Zodlogy, No. 9, p. 260, November, 1869. 
