6 Echin. 
XIV. ECHINODERMA, 
[ 1905 ] 
Bathyzona , Amphideima , Benthophyces , Euri [? Eurino-, or Eury-] plastes y 
Filithuria , Oephyrothuria ; perhaps they never recognised the scholarly 
aptness of the names due to Thdel. 
New Echinoids from Arctic and Antarctic regions are briefly described 
by Mortensen (220). Doederlein (78) bases the following new genera 
on Echinoids obtained by the ‘Valdivia’: Pygmaeoddaris , LamprechinuSy 
OrechinuSy Notechinus , Mortensenia ; these are distinguished by minute, 
though not necessarily trivial, characters ; the many new species are not 
figured. Tertiary Echinoids from Italy and Sardinia, Lower Cretaceous 
Echinoids from Capri, and interesting new species of Diademopsis and 
Mesodiadema from the Middle Lias of Italy, are described by Airaghi. 
With the cooperation of Lambert, Savin (286) has revised the fossil 
Echinoids of Iskre, describing some new species; and in an appendix 
Lambert founds the new genus Eosaleniay which apparently is not a 
Salenid. The paper appears in three forms with two titles and three 
independent paginations ; the fate of my (21) enables me to sympathise 
with Col. Savin in this misfortune. Doncieux (81) in collaboration with 
Miquel (215) & Lambert (171) has published a useful catalogue of the 
Nummulitic (Lower Lutetian) fossils of l’Aude and l’Herault ; the Echin- 
oids are specially described by Lambert, in whose chapter so many 
novelties are concealed that one is sincerely grateful for the light shed on 
them by his own review, but would it not be simpler to use the expressions 
n. fam., n. g., etc. in the paper itself ! His new genera appear to bo 
Stenaster (afterwards Parmulechinus) and Pseudobrissus , neither from the 
rocks under discussion. The W. African Eocene fauna is increased by an 
interesting Echinolampas described by Lambert in Chautard (47). 
Discussing the Eocene Spatangids of Egypt, Fourtau (97) proposes the 
new genera Heterospatangus and Plagiopneustes and the new subgenus of 
Euspatangus — Perispatangus ; he places the last two in a new group — 
Megapneustidae , but Heterospatangus and Euspatangus in the Euspatan- 
gidae ; the genotype of Hypsospatangus having been proved a Trachy- 
spatanguSy Fourtau thinks to resuscitate the genus by selecting a new 
genotype, and gives its name to yet another of this sort of family. All 
these divisions show the danger of relying on the fascioles, and no wonder 
Mr Fourtau is sometimes “ assez einbarrasse.” Fibulina is a new genus 
described with other new Eocene Echinoids from Madagascar by Torn- 
quist (316). P. de Loriol (195) describes a new Cretaceous Astropecten 
from Patagonia and many new Echinoids from the Tertiary of Spain and 
Africa, the Lower Cretaceous and Upper Jurassic of Portugal and Mt. 
Salkve. He reestablishes Echinites excavatus Leske. 
Continuing his report on the Echinoderma found off the coast of 
S. Africa, Bell (25, 26, 27) describes Asteroids, Ophiuroids, and Crinoids, 
and notes resemblance to both N. Atlantic and Indian Ocean faunas. 
Inter alia, he describes a new Palmipes with 9 rays instead of the usual 5. 
The most important work of the year is Ludwig’s (197) account of the 
Asteroidea dredged by the Albatross in 1891 and 1899-1900, which 
establishes the genera Parastropecten , Albatrossia (nom. preocc.), Pauliella y 
Sarkaster y and Alexandraster. Although general morphological and 
taxonomic conclusions are reserved for the author’s memoir on the star- 
fish of the German Deep-Sea Expedition, still the present beautiful 
volume is full of new observations on the skeletal and internal anatomy. 
Fisher (92) describes, without figuring, 24 new species of starfish from 
Californian and Alaskan deep waters, including Cryptopeltaster n. g. and 
Eremicaster and Myxoderma n. s.-gg. The monograph of British Cretaceous 
Asteroidea is being continued by Spencer (305) who describes some new 
species ; the previous descriptions by Sladen are completed by Searle’s 
excellent drawings. The littoral Ophiurids collected by the Siboga are 
described by Koehler (160) who establishes 60 new species and the 
