SHORTER ARTICLES AND CORRESPONDENCE 



THE GENUS PTILOCRINUS 1 

 Mr. F. A. Bather has just made known a second species of 

 the interesting yen ns which I described a year ago 2 under the 

 name of Ptilocrinus : his material was obtained in 70° 23' S. lat, 

 82° 47' \V. Ion-, al a depth of about 480 meters; the color of the 

 animal in life is recorded as "flavus brilliant." 



The type species of Ptilocrinus. P. pi una t us, came from the 

 Queen Charlotte Islands, off British Columbia, and was dredged 

 at a depth of 1.588 fathoms, about six times the depth at which 

 P. antarcticus was found. 



Although at first sight, perhaps, it is somewhat surprising that 

 the two known species should be found so far apart geograph- 

 ically and bathymetrically, if we look closely into the matter 



