No. 495] NOTES AND LITERATURE 



proper. Eleotris pruvoti is an ally of Valenciennea and Eleotris 

 haharira approaches Gymneleotris. 



Dr. Jacques Pellegrin publishes in the "Mission Scien- 

 tifique," 1907, an account of the fishes of the high mountain 

 lakes of South America. 



In a weekly .Journal, tin- Sydney Mail. Mr. Charles Thackeray 

 gives a readable and accurate account of the game fishes of 

 New South Wales, with wood cuts of the leading species. 



ECHINODEKMATA 



The Stalked Crinoids of the Siboga Expedition. 1 — There has 

 recently been published a monograph on the recent stalked 

 crinoids of the East Indies, based on collections made by the 

 Siboga which is the first important contribution to our knowl- 

 edge of the group .since the publication of Dr. P. Herbert Car- 

 penter's great work (the Challenger report) in 1884. 



The first thing to attract the attention of the student of the 

 recent crinoids is the announcement of the discovery of the infra- 

 basals in a species of Metacrinus, M. acutus, a new species here 

 first described. Dr. Carpenter stoutly maintained that infra- 

 basals did not occur in any species of recent crinoid, and he 

 criticized rather sharply the so-called law of Waehsmuth and 

 Springer, by the application of which the recent genera Iso- 

 crinus and Metacrinus were shown to be dicyclic. He dissected 

 numerous specimens of various species of both genera, and ac- 

 cording to his statements and figures, appeared to conclusively 

 prove their absence. In 1894 the Swiss paleontologist de Loriol 

 discovered and figured infrabasals in a fossil species of Isocrinus, 

 and now Professor Doderlein shows their presence in Metacrinus. 

 This discovery by Dr. Doderlein was made simultaneously by the 

 present reviewer in two other species of Metacrinus and in Iso- 

 crinus decorus and announced in a paper now in press, which 

 had gone through the final proof before Dr. Doderlein 's contribu- 

 tion was received. In this the int'ralmsals of M> famnus rotundus 

 from Japan and of M. supcrhns from the China Sea. and of Iso- 

 crinus decorus from Cuba are described and figured. 



1 Die Gestielten Crinoiden der | Siboga-expedition | von | L. Doderlein. | 

 Monographie XLIIa aus | Uitkomsten op Zoologisch, | Botanisch, Oceano- 

 graphiseh en Geologisch gebied | verzameld in Nederlandsch Oost-Indie 

 1899-1900 | aan boord H. M. Siboga onder commando van | Luitenant tor 

 zee l e KI. G. F. Tydrman 1 uitgegeven door | Dr. Max Weber. 



