ihe collection of Echinodermata brought home by the 2nd Fram 

 Expedition from Jones and Smith Sounds numbered 17 species, namely 

 1 crinoid, 6 starfishes, 6 ophiuroids, 1 sea-urchin, and 3 holothurians, of 

 most of which there are numerous specimens. None of these species are 

 new to science, but three of them, Asterias panopla, Gorgonocephalm 

 eucnemis, and Psolus fabrici, have not previously been observed in 

 the waters to the north and west of Baffin Bay. Asterias panopla 

 has moreover not been found on the west coast of Greenland, but has 

 hitherto been reported only from the Greenland Sea, the Norwegian 

 Sea, the Barents Sea, the Kara Sea, and the Siberian Arctic Ocean, 

 where its eastern limit is at the Taimur Peninsula. On the other hand, 

 the following 9 species out of those that have previously been observed 

 in those waters, are absent from the Fram collection : Antedon proUxa 

 (Duncan & Sladen, 6), Gtenodiscus crispatus (Forbes, 11, Sabine, 33), 

 Solaster endeca (Walkek, 36), Cribrella sanguinolenia (Rankin, 32), 

 Pedicellaster typicus (Duncan & Sladen, 5, 6), Asterias lincki (Ran- 

 kin 32), Ophiopleura borealis (Duncan & Sladen, 6), Amphiura sunde- 

 valli (Duncan & Sladen, 5, 6; Ives 19; Rankin, 32), and Cucumaria 

 calcigera (Forbes, 11). 



According to this, the following 26 echinoderms occur in the 

 archipelago lying north and west of Baffin Bay, namely in Smith Sound, 

 Kane Basin, Robeson Channel, Jones Sound, Lancaster Sound, Barrow 

 Strait, etc, up to Melville Island: 



Crinoidea,: 



Antedon eschrichti, J. MUller. 

 „ prolixa, Sladen. 

 Asteroidea, : 



Ctenodiscus crispatus, Retztus. 

 Solaster papposus, Linnaeus. 

 „ endeca, Retzius. 



