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CATALOGUE OF ECHINIDA. 
g. Without spines. Port Essington. 
h. 1 With spines, young. Isle Luzon. Mr. Cuming’s 
Collection. 
6. Brissus columbarius. 
Ovate ; end truncated ; posterior ambulacra gradually diverg- 
ing ; subanal disk large ; anterior lateral ambulacra bent rather 
backwards. 
Echinus, Seba, Thes. iii. t. 10, f. 19 (t. 15, f. 31, 32 ?) ; Sloane , 
Jam. ii. t. 242, f. 3, 45 : Gualtier , t. 109, f. a. 
Echinus spatangus, var. c., nidosus, Gmelin, S. iV. 3199. 
E. spatangus, var. f., ovatus, Gmelin, S. N. 3200. 
Spatangus brissus, var. 3, ovatus, Leske ap. Klein , 249, t. 38, 
f. 21. 
Spatangus columbaris, Lamk. Hist. iii. 325 ; (i7.J/.t.l58,f.9-10;) 
Blainv. Zooph. 203 ; Desmoid. Echin. 284. 
Brissus columbaris, Gray , Ann. Phil. 1825,9; Agassiz, Prod. 
185 ; Agassiz & Desor, 1. c. 13. 
Hab. Cuba, D'Orbigny. Mus. Paris. 
a, b. Half grown, without spines. West Indies. Mr. 
Scrivener’s Collection. 
c. Larger, without spines ; 1 
d, e,f. Smaller, without spines; 1 
7. Brissus ventricosus. 
Large ; apical summit nearly medial. 
Brissus ventricosus, Leske ap. Klein, 29, t. 26, f. a. ; Rumph. 
Mus. 1. 14, f. 1 ; Gray, Ann. Phil. 1825, 9 ; Agassiz, Prod. 184 ; 
Agassiz dc Desor, 1. c. 13. 
Spatangus ventricosus, Lamk. Hist. iii. 323 ; Blainv. Zooph. 203 ; 
Deslong. E. M. ii. 686. 
Spatangus maculosus, Desmoul. Echin, 382 ; Blainv. Zooph. 203. 
Echinus spatangus, var. maculosus, Gmelin , 8. N. 3199. 
Hab. West Indies. Mus. Paris. 
M. Agassiz refers, Ency. Meth. t. 158, f. 11, and Gualt, 1. 109, 
f. b., to this species ; the first is a copy of Seba’s figure of B. 
carinatus, and the second B. sternalis. Rumph. 1. 14, f. 1, referred 
to by Lamarck, appears to be the adult of the preceding. 
Spatangus brissus unicolor, Seba , Thes. iii. 1 . 10, f. 22 ; Leske ap. 
Klein, 248, t. 26, f. b, c.; hence 
Spatangus ovatus, Lamk. Hist. iii. 324; E. M. t. 158, f. 7, 8; 
Deslong. E. M. ii. 686. Not Gratel. 
Spatangus unicolor, Blainv. Zooph. 203 ; Desmoul. Echin. 382. 
