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a vast amount of trouble if we could accept Schulze as the author- 
ity for such names as E’ncrinus, Astropecten, Palmipes, Penta- 
gonaster, ete., it must be emphatically stated that such a course 
would be entirely unwarranted; it would be more sensible to 
date everything from Linck 1733, and other early authors than 
from a compiler who copied their names. Mr. Bather lays him- 
self open to a charge of inconsistency; for, while, accepting 
Encrinus from Schulze in 1898, in 1899 we find him still using 
Antedon (de Fréminville 1811) and Actinometra (J. Miiller 
1841) instead of Decacnimos, Triscedecacnimos, and Polyactinis 
used by Schulze (taken fron Linck and Seba) fon these genera. 
Surely if one of Schulze’s names be valid, all of them are. 
Andreae, so far as the names given by himself go, was a bin- 
omialist in the Linnean sense, Alana, like most of the early 
workers, he employed the polynomials of his predecessors. He 
gives many references to Linneeus, showing that he was ac- 
quainted with his work, and he is accepted by the leading orni-— 
thologists as consistently binomial, his bird names, such as 
Fringilla gularis being accepted. 
I have not been able to consult the Hannoverische Magazin, 
nor the work of Briickner. So far as I can judge, Encrinus coral- 
loides appears to be the same as the Pentacrinites fossilis of Blu- 
menbach 1804, in which case Pentacrinites becomes a pure Une: 
nym of Hncrinus. 
Encrinus australis ANonyMouws, 1845. 
1845. Anonymous, L’Institut, 1845, p. 292. 
Ty pe-locality.—Newcastle, on the Enter River, Australia. Rev. 
C. Pleydell. 
australis = southern. 
This cannot be a crinoid. 
Encrinus caput-meduse Lamarck, 1816. 
1816.- Lamarcx, Hist. Nat. des Animaux sans Vertébres, II, 
p. 435. 
Ty pe-locality.—Martinique. 
caput=head+Medusa=Medusa, one of the Gorgons. 
Encrinus caput-meduse Lamarck 1816 = /szs asteria Linneeus, 
1766. 
Encrinus milleri Guitpinc, 1828 (not +Encrinites millert von ScHsor- 
HEIM, 1822). 
1828. GuriprNne, Zool. Journ., IV, p. 175. | 
Type-locality.—St. Vincent, West Indies. 
Mr. J. S. Miller. 
The species of Zsocrinus to which this name belongs can not be 
determined from the description. 
