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E > = == E > MAR: N pp == > E > = 2 = 3 WWW E 3 fer mn å z m z = z ri AV RBR m " BER å ES VOLUME IV. SKR i ker 2 É 'Å (PART I.) AE FE aeg ; BY SS EERRESER TH. MORTENSEN. i ål 2 Sorrs i 3 y M mM Å l WITH 21 PLATES AND 12 FIGURES IN THE TEXT. Å| . 5 É . if TRANSLATED BY TORBEN LUNDBECK. 2 fo ET RE: N « "> Å re eee z ve å COPENHAGEN. i PRINTED BY BIANCO LUNO. 1903. . — SAG: YA A yw THE DANISH INGOLF-EXPEDITION. VOLUME IV. 1. z ECHINOIDEA. (PART L) BY TH. MORTENSEN. MIE ES PVS STAN DES EEG UR S EEN SEE FEST TRANSLATED BY TORBEN LUNDBECK. ——— dre ser cz mme ÆT DRS ON COPENHAGEN. BA AAI 4 i PRINTED BY BIANCO LUNO. 2 onal Museurns 1903. Ready from the Press January the 24th 1903. CONTENTS: Introduction On generic and specific Characters in the Echinoids.... Fam. Cidaridæ. .….... Diagnoses of the genera of the Fam. Cidaridæ.......…. Dorocidaris papillata (Leske) Cr ars gartner aber en al: SEE AES HUSS ES EEE —m——— Porocidaris purpurata Wyv. Thomson................ Table of the Cidarids occurring in the northern Atlantic and the Mediterranean......... Fam. Echinothuridæ. .. Diagnoses of the genera of the Fam. Echinothuridæ. … Phormosoma placenta Wyv. Thomson Calveria hystrix Wyv. Thomson Aræosoma fenestratum (Wyv. Thomson) . Sperosoma Grimaldii Koehler ikromikosoma" Koebleri 1.9. SP 0 un sed uden duer Table of the Echinothurids occurring in the northern Alan reen Fam. Temnopleuridæ Hypsiechinus coronatus n. g., n. sp. Echinoidea. Page I. | On the Fam. Echinometradæ Gray and the Subfam. Tripl- BE Fa ES IAN SER EET Een ir. | Diagnoses of the Fam. Stomopneustidæ, Echinidæ, Toxo- 28. pneustidæ and Echinometridæ, with their subfamilies 31 fh ale ba ES e 13 3: DES NER TERE EET ENERET 35. | Fam. DT an KE Es ES ERE ØE ELSE ERE SE EET SEE EET, 38. SubtarskP are einn ce eee eee eee se RR AT. Parechinus mars (Ma) ere Su bane CI næ ENE RENEE SSR EEN SNS 42. Echinuskele sans Dub RE OS ener rå — Alexandre an Oreeeesreeeeg cen — [=Ban dr) FYR a ØE] s FEE REES Se TERESE SEE SEE BENS 66. — LNS DER Id BER a2) SØERNE MERE DE ne ks LE — es ul EmEUS ES ENES SE RER [SSR ER Box opret le Eee fe Subfam. Strongylocentrotinæ...... 75: Strongylocentrotus drøbachiensis............... 78. | "Table of the Echinids of the Families Echinidæ and Toxo- pneustidæ occurring in the northern Atlantic and the So. Mediterranean EEN se SE Er EEN BT | RAD p en LE ENE ERE ar HEE EEN RERVER 86. | Bibliography Page Echinoidea. By Th. Mortensen. db present work forms the first part of a planned revision comprising all the arctic Echinoderms, excepting the Holothurioidea. The basis of the work is formed by the rich material of the Ingolf-Expedition together with the large collections of arctic Echinoderms found at our Zoological Museum from earlier expeditions. To the arctic fauna all the species are referred which are found in the Norwegian Sea, the Greenland Sea, the Denmark Strait, and at the coast of West-Greenland, as also in the White Sea and the Polar Sea with the Bering Strait. Of forms that are only found south of the large ridge between Greenland and Iceland, and between Iceland and the Farée Islands, only such as have been taken by the Ingolf-Expedition, have been included in the work. During the examination of the material the absolute necessity of taking into consideration also other more or less nearly related forms soon made itself felt. By and by I became aware of the fact that the classification hitherto used with regard to the families treated of here, was quite erroneous, and so I have sought to include into the examination as many forms as possible in order to be able to give the new classification that had to be made, so broad a base as possible. Inspector G. M. R. Levinsen placed the whole rich collection of Echinoids of the museum at my disposal with the greatest readiness; but as far from all species and genera are represented in this collection, I have applied to several foreign naturalists, and have everywhere been met with the most obliging kindness and friendliness, so that I have been enabled to examine almost all known genera and species com- prised in the groups treated of here. The following gentlemen have sent me Echinoids on loan or in exchange: Dr. Appelléf (the Museum of Bergen), Prof. F. Jeffr. Bell (British Museum), Prof. E. v. Beneden (Liége), Prof. Collett (Christiania), Prof. Dåderlein (Strassburg), Conservator J. Grieg (the Museum of Bergen), Promkko'ehler (Lyons), Prof Pr de Loriol (Genéve) Prof "E. v. Marenzeller (Vienna), (Geh:rati; Prof. E. v. Martens (Berlin), Geh.rath, Prof. K. Møbius (Berlin), Prof. Monticelli (Naples), Prof. P. Pallary (Oran), Prof. G. Pfeffer (Hamburg), Prof. R. Rathbun (U. S. National Museum), Prof. The Ingolf-Expedition. IV. 1. I ECHINOIDEA. I. N d'Arcy Thompson (Dundee). By this present I beg to offer my sincerest thanks to all these gentlemen. Finally I had occasion for a short stay at the British Museum in August 1go1. By the genial friendliness of Prof. Bell I was enabled to examine a great many forms, especially original specimens from the Challenger-Expedition. It will appear throughout my work, that this stay has been of material importance to me, and my best thanks are due to Prof. Bell for his liberality. Still I have to thank Dr. F. A. Bather (British Museum) for his excellent assistance in several literary questions. Copenhagen, January 1902. The Author. «Loin d'étre nuisible aux vrais progrés de la science, cette multiplication des genres, lorsqwils sont établis sur des caractéres précis, ne saurait avoir d'autre effet que de rapprocher de plus en plus les espéces, que leurs caractéres naturels lient le plus étroitement. Cest lå le grand avantage des petits genres, et cet avantage est surtout sensible dans les familles, dont toutes les espéces se ressemblent par leur aspect extérieur et par Tensemble de leurs caractéres.» ZL. Ågassiz. d On generic and specific Characters in the Echinoids. Everybody who has studied Echinoids, will have felt a considerable difficulty in recognising many of the genera, at all events of the regular Echinoids. Such was, at any rate, my case at the commen- cement of my researches. I studied the excellent collection of these animals found in our museum, and found it to be more and more hopeless. A great many genera were exhibited, as: Æchinus, Psammechinus, Toxopneustes, Hipponoé, Boletia, Psilechinus, Lytechinus, Loxechinus, etc.; but it seemed to be impossible to discover the characters on which they were established, whether the naked tests, or specimens that had kept the spines, were examined. And the literature did not contribute very much to clear up the question. To be sure, some of these names (— as it will be seen, partly .… unjustly -—) appeared to be synonyms; but nevertheless the other genera were not much better » characterized. We learned through long descriptions that the spines were thick or thin, few and scat- 'tered, or many and closely packed; that the tubercles might be small or large, and that they might be placed in more or less regular series, etc. — altogether things easily enough seen, but so relative, that it was impossible to get any any firm hold. It was almost enough to drive one to despair. Still a faint hope was left. Might not the difficulty be in the literature, and the animals them- selves in reality be less intractable? A profound and careful attempt at penetrating into the mysteries of the relationship of the Echinoids was planned, and the plan was the simple, but clear one: to let literature alone for the present, while the animals were studied thoroughly. Everything had to be examined that might in any way be supposed to show systematic characters: the test, the spines, the tube-feet, the pedicellariæ, the spicules, the sphæridiæ, etc. The beginning was to be made with the Æchznus-species. This choice seemed to be the best one, as these species have hitherto been especially notorious for their difficulty, and a very rich material of them is found in the museum of Copenhagen. The result was excellent. The animals proved to be very tractable, the species to be very well characterized (with a few exceptions). The difficulties arise from the literature containing numberless bad descriptions. And what a confusion is reigning in the literature with regard to the names. Almost every species must drag along with it a lot of synonyms, not only specific syno- nyms, but also generic ones. Several species have by and by been referred to a whole series of different genera, to end at last as a separate genus, as badly characterized as most of the other genera. To name only one instance: The genuine Psammechinus-species: variegatus (Lamk.) and semituberculatus (Val) have by and by been referred to the following genera: Æchinmus, Lytechinus, Schizechinus, T0x0- pneustes, but only rarely, in recent times not at all, to the genus to which they decidedly belong. On the other hand the following extraneous species have been referred to Psammechinus: Echinus norvegicus, magellanicus, miliaris, microtuberculatus, angulosus, Strongylocentrotus Gaimardi, intermediuts, I" 4 ECHINOIDEA. I. Sphærechinus pulcherrimus, Evechinus chloroticus, Echinostrephus molare. — This instance may be taken as a significant illustration of the generic descriptions. Or should it be necessary also to recall the genera of Cidarids? That under such circumstances erroneous determinations have been frequent, is mot to be wondered at. I have had occasion to substantiate several (far too many!) cases, and such cases too where the greatest authorities have been responsible for the determination. We ought therefore to be very Ccautious in using the existing statements. with regard to the geographical distribution of these forms. The characters that have hitherto chiefly been used for the distinguishing between the genera and species, are the following: the pores, the spines, the tubercles, the mouth-slits, the lining of the buccal membrane with larger or smaller plates, and the calycinal area. All these structures may give excellent characters, and, of course, they are always to be taken into consideration. But most frequently they are so relative, that it is exceedingly difficult or impossible by means of these structures to decide whether a specimen in hand belongs to one species or another. Such is especially the case when the question is of the position of the tubercles; it may be simply irritating to read the descriptions of these in different species that are to be compared, and often the result falls very short of the exertion to get a clear view of the descriptions. To this may be added that the number, size, and position of the tubercles vary very much with age. With regard to the pores, their number and mutual position is no absolutely reliable character either. That in species with many pairs of pores their number increases with age is a well-known fact. The young SZrongy- locentrotus drøbachiensis has only three pairs of pores (Lovén 250); «Szrongylocentrotus» lividus has only 3 pairs of pores in the lower ambulacral plates; Æchinostrephus has 2—4 pairs of pores, oftenest 3. pairs etc. By these researches the pedicellariæ and spicules proved to be of very great systematic importance; they give the most excellent characters we may want. To be sure, this fact is no new discovery. It has long been known that these organs and structures were more or less differently constructed in the different species and genera; much has been written about this fact, and a great many figures have been published. But nevertheless the fact has never been fully utilised. The history of the pedicellariæ is highly interesting; scarcely many zoological objects will be able to vie with these organs with regard to the number of interpretations. From parasites to embryos, and even to vertebrates, and back again to parasites their history passes, until they are generally acknowledged to be what they really are: organs forming integral parts of the animal. v. Uexktll has given an excellent account of their history (406), and so there is no reason to give it here again. I shall only here note a few less important treatises, not mentioned by v. Uexkill, viz. by Duncan (130), Groom (175), and Stewart (381). A little note by Troschel (Verhandl. d. natur- hist. Vereins d. preuss. Rheinl. u. Westphalen. 1870 p. 137) is also to be mentioned for the sake of completeness; it contains nothing new. The histological structure of the pedicellariæ has of late years been very carefully studied, especially by Foettinger (155), Hamann (184), Sladen (366), Prouho (327), and v. Uexkiill (406). The most interesting ones in this respect are the globiferous pedicellariæ, which have proved to be ECHINOIDEA. I. 5 poison-apparatus of a very peculiar and complicated structure with sensitive cilia, poison-glands etc. Only a single point seems hitherto not to have been fully understood, viz. how the poison. gland opens through the large tooth at the end of each of the three valves forming the skeleton of the head of the pedicellaria.. Perrier!) thinks that in some there is a large «lacune mediane» in the end-tooth, in others he finds two terminal teeth beside each other. The latter fact is also stated by Valentin?) with regard to «Srongylocentrotus» lividus. Sladen (366, p. 105) describes the end-tooth as «channelled and presenting the appearance of two or more lateral lamellæ merged together to form the tip or tooth-like fang». Stewart alone seems to have seen the fact correctly; he says (381, p. 910) of the globiferous pedicellariæ im Æchinostrephus: «The jaw terminates in a long, deeply grooved fang; the groove, which is almost converted into a canal by the meeting of its margins, opening at a point near, but never at the tip on the external or distal surface». But this correct description seems to have been overlooked. Neither seems the most recent author on this subject, v. Uexkiill, to have under- stood the structure correctly, although he is not much mistaken. He says (op. cit. p. 364): «Die Ver- dickung (the upper end of the blade where the end-tooth issues) weisst jederseits eine långliche Offnung auf, von der aus je ein Canal ins Innere tritt. Die beiden Canåle vereinigen sich in der Mittellinie zum unpaaren Giftcanal, der bis nahe an die Spitze des Endhakens låuft um hier dorsal zu mtinden. Der Endhaken zeigt am åussersten Ende noch eine aufgesetzte feinste Spitze». According to this description v. Uexkull seems to think that the poison-canal runs quite inside the tooth, which would thus be tubular. An essential reason why the authors have not hitherto succeeded in reaching the correct under- standing, is no doubt that Søhærechinus granularis has especially been used as the subject of exami- nation, and in this species the structure of the tooth is only to be seen with some difficulty. If, on the other hand, an Æchznus or a Psammechinus is used, the structure is easily seen, and when first it is understood, it is also easily seen that the pedicellariæ of Søhærechinus are in reality constructed in the same way. — When the fang is viewed from above, the poison-canal is seen to be an open sroove on the upper surface of the fang (Pl. XVII, Fig. 15), the whole reminding of the poison-fangs in the opistoglypha. As mentioned by v. Uexkull, the canal runs out a little before the point; to speak of «eine aufgesetzte Spitze» is misleading. (In the Cidaridæ the structure of the globi- ferous pedicellariæ is quite different, as described below.) As far as I know there is in literature next to no more exact accounts of the development of the pedicellariæ of the Echinoids3). Only Prouho (327) gives some excellent figures of the first stages of development, but only of the histology; the development of the calcareous skeleton is not mentioned. Agassiz, in the «Challenger»-Echinoidea (8) Pl. II, Fig. 16, gives some figures of deve- lopmental stages of pedicellariæ in Goniocidaris canaliculata; but only the outer contour is given, and mention is made neither of the histology nor of the calcareous skeleton. No further direct observa- tions seem to be found. — Generally, the small pedicellariæ have been regarded as developmental 1) Recherches sur les Pédicellaires et les Ambulacres des Astéries et des Oursins. Ann. Sc. Nat. 5. Sér. XII—XIII. 1869—70. 2) Anatomie du genre Echinus. (Agassiz: Monographies d'Echinodermes.) 1842. 3) On the development of the pedicellariæ in Asteroidea Agassiz gives some informations. (Rev. of Echini IV.) 6 ECHINOIDEA. I. stages of the large ones of the same kind. Duvernoy:?) even thinks all the different kinds of pedicel- lariæ to be developmental stages of a single, definitive form, pedic. tridens. Valentin (Op. cit. p. 49) writes of the triphyllous pedicellariæ: «Je 1'ai pu m'assurer si ce sont des pédicellaires d'une espéce particuliére, ou s'ils ne sont que le jeune åge des pédicellaires ophicephales», and Agassiz, in «Rev. of. Ech.» p. 665, says: «in Æchønometra there is no doubt these trifoliate pedicellariæ are only the younger stages of the tridactyle forms». Secarcely any student of these forms will now-a-days suppose one form of pedicellariæ to be a developmental stage of the other. On the other hand it must be admitted that at a first glance the small pedicellariæ might appear to be developmental stages of the larger ones of the same kind. A little reflection, however, will immediately show the improbability of this supposition; what re-arrangements were to take place in the calcareous mass to make a small fully formed pedicellaria become a large one! — Pedicellariæ are not rarely found that seem either to be only half-formed, or half-decomposed. The possibility that they might be somewhat decomposed, because the preserving fluid had become acid, has to the dismissed at once, — if this were the case the lime would be corroded everywhere, and not only the outer edge be decomposed. Dåderlein (116) has seen and figured such half-formed pedicellariæ of SZereocidaris grandis and «Lezocidaris» verticillata, and regards them as a separate kind. «Es scheint noch eine vierte Form von Pedicellarien bei den Cidariden zu geben, von der ich aber bisher nur einige isolierte Klappen gesehen habe, die sich auf Pråparaten ganz vereinzelt neben den anderen Formen fanden. Diese «korbfårmigen» Klappen zeigen eine sehr weite, bauchige Kammer, die am oberen Theil in einer sehr grossen Offnung miindet; diese Offnung zeigt einfache diinne und etwas gekerbte Rånder; von Zåhnelung u. dgl. ist keine Spur vor- handen. Solche Pedicellarien erreichen bei C. grandis die Gråsse und die åussere Gestalt der dick- kopfigen Form, sie sind dagegen sehr klein bei Z. verzicillata; bei anderen Arten kenne ich sie nicht, auch ihren Standort konnte ich nicht entdecken» (op. cit. p. 33). For a long time I had no clear under- standing myself how to interpret this form, until I found some specimens of -xormosoma placenta possessing such structures in large numbers and in different sizes, and then there was no doubt that they are developmental stages of pedicellariæ. On Pl. XII, figs. 15, 24, 30, 38 the development of a triphyllous pedicellaria is given. The part first formed is the basal part of the three valves and the stalk (its upper end); they seem to appear contemporaneously. From the basal part then the blade grows up, and new calcareous particles being constantly added all round, it grows in breadth and height; the apophysis is early formed. The figures give, better than a long description, an idea of the way in which the growth takes place. Where a distinct margin is formed the growth is com- pleted. The margin is first formed below when the definitive breadth has been reached, and is then continued towards the upper end. A large pedicellaria is begun with a broad base, a little one with a narrow base. No growth takes place when a coherent margin has been formed all round the valve. — On Pl. XII, figs. 4—5 is shown a developmental stage of a large tridentate pedicellaria. — I have found such stages of development in most of the species I have examined. Already Duvernoy (op. cit.) and W. B. Herapath?) lay stress upon the fact that the pedi- 1) Mémoire sur Panalogie de composition et sur quelques points de Yorganisation des Echinodermes. Mém. de PInst. de France. XX. 1849. p. 611. 7) On the Pedicellariæ of the Echinodermata. Quart. Journ. micr. Sc. (N. S.) V. 1865. p. 175—84. Pls. IV—V. ECHINOIDEA. I. NJ cellariæ of the Echinoids give good specific characters. Stewart, Koehler, Dåderlein, Wyv. Thomson, a. 0., but especially Perrier and Agassiz have later described pedicellariæ of a great many different Echinoids, and have shown that here an immense richness in forms is found, and that they give characters with regard as well to families, as to genera and species. Nevertheless the pedi- cellariæ have only a few times (in Wyv. Thomson's classical work on the «Porcupine»-Echinoids (395) and Dåderleins as excellent work on the Cidarids (116)) been treated as being of importance in the systematic works; generally they have only been mentioned as a matter of small importance beside the description proper, and often no attention at all has been paid to them. Rarely all the different forms of pedicellariæ in a species are described, and still less in all species of the same genus; of one species an ophicephalous and a tridentate pedicellaria is figured, of another a valve of a globiferous one, of a third perhaps none at all, etc. In this way, of course, we shall never get a clear understanding of the systematic characters which may be found in these small organs. The pedicellariæ in effect give absolutely excellent systematic characters, sometimes only specific characters, sometimes also generic ones. The use of the pedicellariæ in classification is attended with great advantages; they do not change their form with age, but are in the newly metamorphosed Echinoid of the same form as in the grown one, only somewhat smaller in the small specimens. It is therefore (oftenest) possible, by means of the pedicellariæ, easily to determine quite small Echinoids with absolute certainty — at all events as to genus. Another advantage is that it is not necessary to remove the spines in order to get a view of the tubercles, the specimens have not to be destroyed for the sake of determination. It may, perhaps, seem unreasonable to lay so much stress, as is done here, on so minute fea- tures as the pedicellariæ — to use them for the characterizing of as well species as genera and families. But when it proves to be a real fact that these minute features give excellent, constant characters, it may be taken to be reasonable to use them without regard to their being small or large. Surely any student of Echinoids will also feel it as a great advantage not to be obliged to be contented with all these relativities, as the length and number of the spines, the size of the tubercles, the form of the test etc. To all these things, of course, regard must always be paid, and so has also been done here, as far as the material has permitted. But the pedicellariæ are, at least, as important. I can completely subscribe the expressions of Stewart (381 p. 912): «It seems to me most desirable that minute, and even apparently trivial, features should be given in the descriptions of species, and that when this is more done, we may find affinities between forms, we should otherwise mot suspect, and be enabled by the examination of even an ambulacral tube or pedicellaria etc. to determine a species without the denudation of portions of the corona, which is sometimes not desirable». The supposition by Stewart that by an examination of the pedicellariæ etc. we might find a closer relation between forms not otherwise regarded as related, has been amply justified by these researches, even to so high a degree that the classification hitherto used proves to be quite a failure (with regard to the groups treated of here). A good proof of the correctness of the new classi- fication given here, which has been found especially by the examination of the pedicellariæ, is found in the fact that forms with the same kind of pedicellariæ also agree in other important respects. To 8 ECHINOIDEA. I. be sure, the material has not been sufficient for a thorough examination of all characters with regard to some groups (especially the Cidarids), but I think that from the results found elsewhere we shall be justified in supposing that it will appear everywhere to be a fact that forms with the same kind of pedicellariæ in reality belong to the same natural group. It is a serious drawback that the pedicellariæ cannot be used in the classification of the fossil Echinoids. Groom (175), to be sure, has described the pedicellariæ of Pe/amechinus corallinus in a very well preserved state, and it will, no doubt, also be possible to find them in well-preserved speci- mens of other fossil Echinoids; of course, however, it will always be a rare thing — generally we have here to be content with the tests (and the spines). These structures also often give excellent characters, but they are far from being always reliable. The former great incertainty in the determi- nation of the recent forms of regular Echinoids (and I think it is not much better with regard to the irregular ones) may be taken to imply that there cannot be any great certainty in the classification of the fossil forms either. As is well known, no less than four different kinds of pedicellariæ are found in an -c/hrmus, viz. globiferous pedicellariæ, tridentate, ophicephalous, and triphyllous ones. Of these forms the tri- phyllous and ophicephalous ones have only very little systematic importance; they are very much alike in almost all Echini. The tridentate ones give often excellent specific characters; the globiferous ones are generally very much alike in related species, but show very characteristic differences in the different genera. Especially the latter form shows many peculiarities. The structure of the blade is highly different; it may be open or shut, the margins having coalesced on the inside; there may be many or few teeth along the edge, placed symmetrically or unsymmetrically, or teeth may be quite wanting. On the other hand no forms are known with more than one end-tooth"). When Perrier (op. cit.) says that the globiferous pedicellariæ in the Echinometrids end in two hooks, one placed a little above the other, this statement is not quite correct. There is also here only one end-tooth, with the men- tioned open canal on the upper side; the other one that is placed below the former, is a lateral tooth with no poison-canal, homologous with the lateral teeth of the pedicellariæ in Æchrmus. Here thus is only one unpaired lateral tooth. In Søhærechinus, Strongylocentrotus etc. no lateral teeth are found at all, only a little obliquity is seen towards the end of the blade, a little process on one side, perhaps a reminiscence of the unpaired lateral tooth in the Echinometrids. — Some (Szrongylocentrotus) have a long, muscular neck between the stalk and the head; in most forms the head is placed directly on the end of the stalk. Even the structure of the stalk is very different, in some forms it is a per- forated tube, in others some thin calcareous threads, irregularly connected by short cross-beams, or it may even be a single thin calcareous thread. Some forms have large mucous glands on the stalk. In the Cidarids the stalk is very peculiar, with an upper thin part and a lower thick one; at the transition between the two parts a limb of projecting calcareous ridges is often seen. The mentioned four different kinds of pedicellariæ are found in the old families Æchznidæ and Echinometradæ. In the Echinothurids globiferous pedicellariæ are only found in a single genus (Hapalosoma); they are highly peculiar (Pl. XIII, Figs. 20, 24, 25), obviously very primitive. The calcareous skeleton consists of three simple rods lying between the three (mucous?) glands, each 1) Comp. however, the description of the globiferous pedicellariæ in Szomopnenstes. ECHINOIDEA. I. 9 of which ends in a fine pore at the end. The rods reach only half-way, the whole thing is coalesced to the very point; there are no muscles between the basal parts of the valves. In another genus (Åræosoma) a singular kind of pedicellariæ are found, the tetradactyle, with four peculiar, very ele- gantly formed valves. Also in other Echinoids a four-valved pedicellaria may now and then be found, but only as an abnormity. Ophicephalous pedicellariæ”) are among the Echinothuridæ found in only a single genus /7Yomikosoma); on the other hand, triphyllous and tridentate pedicellariæ are found in all of them, and especially the tridentate ones show a great variety of forms, and are of great systematic importance. In the Cidarids are found tridentate pedicellariæ, and another kind occuring im a large and a small form, of substantially the same structure. They seem to be poison-apparatus as the globiferous pedicellariæ of the Echinidæ; but they are of a quite different structure, the gland being here placed inside the blade, quite surrounded by the calcareous skeleton, while in the Echinidæ it is situated on the outside of the blade. On the inside of the blade, somewhat below the point, there is a larger or smaller opening («the mouth») in the calcareous skeleton, filled with large cells, richly provided with cilia (sensitive hairs?). The efferent duct of the secretion of the gland passes up through the end-tooth, and opens on its surface. How these structures are arranged in forms with no end-tooth is unknown. The inner opening is of great systematic importance, while the glandular opening itself scarcely is of any importance in this respect. Perrier (op. cit.) gives these pedicellariæ a special name «Pedicellaires armées». After the discovery of the above described form of globiferous pedicellariæ in the Echinothurids?) there seems to be sufficient reason to take these pedicellariæ in the Cidarids to be homologous with the globiferous pedicellariæ of the Echinoids, as has also been done by Stewart (379) and Prouho (327), so that there is no cause to keep the name given to them by Perrier. There is still less reason to keep the name «Ped. inermes» for the tridentate pedicellariæ of the Cidarids; there can be no doubt but that they correspond to the tridentate pedicellariæ of the other Echinoids (Prouho (327), Koehler (217). Hamann (184) regards the small pedicellariæ as «a sub- species of the tridactylous ones». Now it has to be admitted that sometimes it may be rather difficult to distinguish between these latter and small tridentate pedicellariæ; but generally they are very easily recognised, and there is no doubt that, with regard to structure, they resemble very much the large globiferous pedicellariæ. Where no pronounced difference is found between large and small pedicellariæ, it may in fact be impossible to decide, whether a certain specimen is to be regarded as a large or as a small form. There seems to be no reason to give a special name to the small pedicellariæ; in the present work they will the mentioned as «small globiferous pedicellariæ». — Ophicephalous and triphyl- lous pedicellafiæ are not found in the Cidarids. O. F. Miiller3) has originally given names to the pedicellariæ, viz. Pedicellaria globifera, triphylla, and tridens. These names have not been generally accepted, the reason being especially that Valentin in his classical monograph on the anatomy of Æchinus has used other appellations: Pedicellaire gemmiforme, tridactyle, and ophicephale; these names have become the common ones. Sladen (366) justly maintains that it is incorrect to use these latter names. The figures of Muller 1) What has hitherto been regarded as ophicephalous pedicellariæ in the Echinothuridæ, are in reality triphyllous ones. 2) Also the globiferous pedicellariæ in Stomopneustes seem to form a peculiar type. They have no end-tooth, and there seems to be no poison gland on the outside of the blade. 3) Zoologia danica. 1788. pag. 16. Tab. XVI. Nn The Ingolf-Expedition. IV. I. FO ECHINOIDEA. I. are perfectly recognisable, and therefore his names ought to be restored to their rights. The name of P. triphylla of Miller, however, no doubt includes as well ophicephalous pedicellariæ as triphyllous ones. This name must then be kept for the small form the valves of which resemble clover-leaves, while Valentin's name P. ophicephale is kept for the form described by him under this name. — Hamann (184) uses the name «Globiferen» especially of the pedicellariæ where the mucous glands on the stalk have been so highly developed, that the head has become rudimentary or is even quite wanting. Thus they, as is also admitted by Hamann himself, are not a peculiar kind of orgaus, but only transformed pedicellariæ; it may, perhaps, be as well to have a special name for these pedi- cellariæ, but the name of «Globiferæ» cannot be restricted to them, as has also been observed by Duncan (130). It is, in reality, contrary to all common practice not to use the names of Muller. The reason for keeping Valentin's names given by Geddes and Beddard (163): «both on account of their general acceptance and because they were the first names applied to pedicellariæ after the determination of their real nature; Miller's nomenclature refers to pedicellariæ as a genus of para- sitic animals», is not sufficient for a disregarding of the common rules of priority. Accordingly the names that ought to be used, are the following: | Pedic. gemmiforme Valentin, Perrier. Globiferous pedicellariæ — Pedicellaria globifera Miller FRH PSarmerPberrer(irktherCidarids) | «Globiferen» Hamann. f P. tridactyle Valentin etc. Tridentate £ tridens >= — PER i É ANES (o: inerme Perrier (in the Cidarids). i i Ø f P. triphylla Miller pro parte. Ophicephalous — — — ophiocephala Valentin — a LP. buccale Valentin, Hamann. Triphyllous — — — triphylla Muller REP tr kob eerrer To facilitate the understanding of the descriptions in the following, figures are annexed showing a single valve of each of the four kinds of pedicellariæ together with the names used for the separate parts. To be able to study the pedicellariæ, especially the calcareous skeleton, which is of particular importance for the classification, they must necessarily be treated carefully. On being boiled in a not too strong solution of potash the separate pieces of the skeleton may easily be isolated, and no very great technical skill is necessary to be able to make preparations in Canada balsam of these pieces. (They cannot be kept in glycerine, as it resolves the lime). Accordingly I can in no way subscribe to the opinion of Pomel that the pedicellariæ only with difficulty can be used for the classification, because «leur ténuité en rend Vétude peu pratique» (324 p. 13). Also the spicules yield good systematic characters, even if they are not, in this respect, equal to the pedicellariæ. They only rarely yield specific characters, and are oftenest very similar in the sepa- rate genera of the same family, but they may yield excellent family characters. They may be of a simple C-shape («bihamate») — the most common form — or a little branched in both ends (Særongylocentrotus), or pointed in both ends, and with one branch or a couple of small branches in the middle, «biacerate» (Parasalenia, Anthocidarts); in Sphærechinus and especially in 7oxopneustes and ECHINOIDEA. I. Tripneustes they are dump-bell-shaped, and in many genera they are irregular, perforated calcareous plates. Perrier (op. cit.) and especially Stewart”) have figured the spicules of many Echinoids; but they have not, any more than the pedicellariæ, hitherto been of any importance in the classification. The sphæridia do not appear to show such differences in structure that they may yield system- atic characters. On the other hand the structure of the spines is of no small systematic importance, as especially shown by Mackintosh (264—265), and they are never to be passed by in the descrip- od == 2 2, SR - Do =D — = æ æ Sae 3 > eD &æ - Og æ WE Fig. 2. Fig. 3. Fig. 4. Fig. I. Valve of a globiferous pedicellaria of Pareckinus miliaris (Mill.) — 2. — - an ophicephalous pedicellaria of Strongylocentrotus drøbachiensis (O.F. Miill.) — 3 — - a triphyllous pedicellaria of FParechinus miliaris. — 4. — - a tridentate pedicellaria of Szrongyloc. drøbachiensis. In all the figures a. means the apophysis, 6. the basal part, 6/. the blade, e.z. the end-tooth, s.z. lateral teeth, 2. the articular surface. tions — as indeed nothing that may be of systematic importance. Above all, the most easily acces- sible and most reliable characters, viz. the pedicellariæ and spicules, ought never to be omitted in systematic descriptions of Echinoids. Fam. Cidaridæ. With regard to the classification of the Cidarids, all authors seem to agree in only one thing, viz. that all attempts made hitherto at giving a natural limitation to the genera have failed. «Every 1) On the Spicula of the Regular Echinoidea. Transact. Linn. Soc. London. XXV. 1865. p. 365—71. Pl. 47—50. 12 ECHINOIDEA. I. writer upon the classification of the Echinoidea since Desor has complained of the unsatisfactory attempts of some of the most distinguished authorities to subdivide the genus Cidaris ... The divisions were made upon very unimportant external characters, and subsequent research has proved that these structures, the variations of which led them to be considered of good diagnostic value, are of no physiological importance» (Duncan (132 p.29)). In the excellent principal work on the Cidarids, Dåderlein's «Die japanischen Seeigel» (116) he says (p. 35): «Eine wirklich befriedigende Gruppierung der lebenden und fossilen Cidariden in Gattungen und Untergattungen ist bisher eine ungelåste Auf- gabe gewesen und wird es wohl noch lange bleiben». And then follows, to boot, a remark, anything but encouraging to a systematist, that «es ist durchaus nicht zu erwarten, dass die Abgrenzung der Gruppen bei zunehmender Kenntniss eine schårfere werde». — Nevertheless I shall here make an attempt to solve the problem: the classification of the Cidarids. Agassiz in his «Revision of Echini» keeps the genera: C7daris, Dorocidaris, Phyllacanthus, Szephanocidaris, Porocidaris, and Gonzocidaris; Dorocidaris and Phyllacanthus, however, are more nearly regarded as subgenera under C7darrs, what is also especially remarked later, in the «Challenger»- Echinoids (8 p. 33). They are here further defined in the following way: «Dorocidaris would include all forms with narrow ambulacral areas and long slender, serrated spines, while P%y//acanthus would include species with broad ambulacral areas, having the poriferous zones joined by a furrow more or less distinect; while Cz7darzs proper would be restricted to species, in which the pores of the poriferous zone are not so connected». Wyville Thomson (395 p.772) among the recent Echinoids only acknowledges the genera C7daris, Porocidaris, and «possibly» Gownzocidaris. Pomel (324) divides the Cidarids into three subfamilies, viz. /es Czdariens with the genus Æwcidaris (with «trois espéces vivantes», none of which are mentioned) as the only recent representative; /es Goniocidariens with the recent genera Gonzocidaris and Dorocidaris; and les Rhabdocidartens with the genera Phyllacanthus (with the subgenus SZephanocidaris), Lerocidaris and Porocidaris. "The genus Schlernitzia Studer is supposed to be a R/abdocidaris, consequently also to belong to this subfamily. Duncan (132) only admits the genus C7daris with the subgenus Gorzocidaris; the other earlier genera are only classed as «divisions». De Loriol (245) comprises a great number of species under the name of Æ-abdocidaris Desor; but he owns (p.7) that «au fond, toutes les tentatives, qui ont été faites pour demembrer le grand genre Cidaris, 1'ont pas été heureuses; on trouvera toujours tant de passages entre les espéces, en apparence les plus distinctes, qwil est douteux pour moi, s'il est vraiment nécessaire de diviser ce genre admirable, qui apparait dés la fin de VPére paléozoique et traverse dés lors tous les étages, sans manquer dans aucune, pour se retrouver enfin dans les mers actuelles sans avoir modifié aucun de ses caractéres». The most important contribution to the classification of the Cidarids has been given by Dåderlein in his above quoted, large and excellent work «Die japanischen Seeigel» where he attempts to group as well the recent forms as the fossil ones according to their real relation. With regard to the recent forms the following genera are retained: Porocidaris, Stereocidaris (known until then only as fossil from the cretaceous period), Æwcidaris, Lertocidaris, Porocidaris, and Goniocidaris.. But neither is the limitation by Dåderlein of these genera satisfactory; above all it holds good with regard to his genera as well as with regard to those of the other authors that nobody is able to recognise them with certainty by the diagnoses given, — when upon the whole diagnoses are given. After all it is a ECHINOIDEA. I. 13 matter of judgment, to which genus one species or another is to be referred, and most of the species more frequently mentioned have also by and by been referred to almost all the different genera. So far it is very consistently done by Duncan and Bell (73) quite to strike out all these undistinguish- able genera, and only retain the old genus C/daris; but then on the other hand this way of proceed- ing means quite to abandon the pursuit. The reason why the result of the earlier attempts at classification has been so meagre, has to be sought in the characters used. The most important ones have been, whether the two pores of each ambulacral plate are connected by a groove or not, and whether the tubercles are crenulated or not. Further the spines, the number of plates, the breadth of the ambulacral area, and upon the whole the structure of the test have been considered of great importance. All these characters, however, are insufficient or even unreliable. As has been pointed out by both Dåderlein and Dun- can, it is often impossible to decide, whether the pores are or are not connected by a groove. The crenulation is a very variable character; crenulated tubercles may be found in some individuals belong- ing to species normally without crenulation. The structure of the test, the tubercles, the number of plates etc. are very much dependent on the age of the animal. All these characters, says Duncan, are «of no physiological importance whatever»; «any classification in which these characters are used is artificial». On the other hand he thinks that «the number of interradial plates (is) of physiological importance; and there is a great temptation to consider typical Cidarids as having but a few, say not more than seven, in a vertical row» (132 p. 30). This character seems to be at least as gratuitous, as the others criticised by Duncan are relative ones; neither seems the result of his systematic researches in any way to show that he has found here a systematic character of any great importance. Among the characters hitherto used in the classification, the spines seem to be one of the most reliable. They show a great richness of forms, but are at the same time of a rather constant form in the separate species. Also their microscopic structure. differs to a high degree, and here, perhaps, we might find good generic characters. There are in the literature not a few examinations of the struc- ture of the spines in the Cidarids. Stewart"), Bell (57), and Agassiz (Revision of Echini and Chall. Ech.) have figured transverse sections of the spines of different species; but especially H. W. Mackintosh has rendered great services to the question by his excellent researches on the struc- ture of the Echinoid-spines (264—65). The spines of the Cidarids differ from those of the other Echi- noids by having a compact outer layer («osæracum» Bell); (such a layer is also found, however, in Salenia and Arbacza (on the point of the spines)); — «acanthostracous» this kind of spines is called by Mackintosh. Unfortunately it cannot with certainty be inferred from the existing examinations whether the structure of the spines yields good generic characters. Mackintosh is decidedly of opinion that the spines really yield characters of that importance; he finds instances «in which the acantho- logical characters would seem to call for a change in the position of a genus» (265 I p. 478), and he lays stress on the importance of always mentioning the structure of the spines in the description of Echinoids. Otherwise he has examined too few Cidarids to have got a sure impression of the 1) On the minute structure of certain hard parts of the genus Cidaris. Quarterl. Journ. Micr. Science. N. S. XI. 1871. p. 51 —55-. pl. IV. 14 ECHINOIDEA. I. systematic importance of the spines in this family. Bell (57) who has examined the spines in Gonzo- etdaris florigera, Phyllacanthus imperialis, and Stephanocidaris bispinosa, finds that «within the limits of the true Cidaridæ stages in the extent of the fenestration, and the regularity of the spoke-like intermediate layers are to be observed; when combined with the inquiry into the relations of other structural characters .... they will perhaps be found to be of use in determining the minor questions of the limitations of the genera, of which that family is composed>». No doubt Bell is right when he thinks that the structure of the spines will be of systematic importance; it is, however, not the inner structure, which is highly homogeneous, but the outer layer that is of importance here. From the sections of the spines of 5 different Cidarids figured on Pl. XI, Figs. I, 3, 14, 24, 31, 33, it will be seen that the outer layer is constructed in a highly different way. Sometimes it is quite smooth, with no indication of any roughness whatever on the surface, sometimes it is richly set with small, hairlike outgrowths especially between the ribs. These «hairs» may be more or less branched, and they may unite so as to form a dense reticulation. Special attention must, accordingly, be paid to this outer layer; no doubt, valuable characters will be found here, but for the present nothing can be said with regard to the fact whether only specific characters, or, what is more probable, also generic characters may be found. A clearer view of this question is not to be got until a larger number of species has been examined. The accounts hitherto given, unfortunately, have not been sufficiently exact with regard to the outer layer, so that they are not to be trusted in this respect. As it is the outer layer, which is mainly to be considered, it is of no use to examine old spines, they must be fresh, so that the outer layer is still undamaged (such as are not overgrown by foreign organisms). The spicules of the tube feet seem only to be of slight systematical importance. Commonly they are formed like bows reaching over about half of the circumference of the foot or somewhat less. They are more or less spinulous; in some species of ,SZereocrdaris they are formed as larger, fenestrated plates. Generic characters would seem mot to be found in the forms of the spicules. Then only the pedicellariæ are left where we might expect to find good specific characters; but to judge by the statements in the existing literature, it would also seem beforehand to be rather hopeless. Perrier, in his well-known large work on the pedicellariæ, has given (not very exact) figures and descriptions of several forms; but their systematic importance does not clearly appear from these figures and descriptions. Stewart (op. cit.) has given an excellent figure of a pedicellaria of Cidaris annulata». According to Agassiz (Revision of Echini) C. ammulata A. Ag. is = C. æribuloides Lamk., and C. annulata Gray = Phyllacanthus annulifera A. Ag. The figured pedicellaria, however, cannot belong to any of those species, although Agassiz (Revision p. 99) mentions the quoted work of Stewart under C. Zribuloides; it seems to be a Goniocidaris, but which species cannot be deter- mined. In (379) Stewart further gives a couple of excellent figures of globiferous pedicellariæ in Doro- cidaris papillata. Also Wyville Thomson (395) gives excellent figures of the pedicellariæ in Poro- cidaris papillata and Porocidaris purpurata. In «Revision of Echini» and in the «Challenger»-Echinoids (8) Agassiz figures pedicellariæ of several Cidarids, but generally the figures are not good. Dåder- lein (116), however, is the first author, who has tried to use the pedicellariæ in a correct way in the classification of the Cidarids. He has studied the pedicellariæ in a larger number of species, and ECHINOIDEA. I. E5 thinks that they often give excellent specific characters, but he was disappointed «in ihrer erhofften Verwendbarkeit zur Unterscheidung nattirlicher Gruppen innerhalb der Familie» (p. 1). «Nur mit grosser Vorsicht durfen Pedicellarien als systematische Merkmale bei den Cidariden beniitzt werden». The small pedicellariæ are highly similar in almost all species, but they may vary very much in the separate individuals. (Only the form with a long terminal hook, occurring in Gormzocidaris mikado and clypeata, is especially mentioned). The tridentate ones («låffelartige Form») are better, but they are also highly varying in the separate individuals. Most applicable for the classification is the thick- headed form, (the large, globiferous pedicellariæ); it is highly constant in form and size, and shows many peculiarities, «die sehr wohl einzelne Arten, manchmal auch Gruppen charakterisiren kånnen». He also tries to group the species according to these peculiarities, without, however, attributing to them any great systematic importance, and therefore he does not mention the pedicellariæ in his diagnoses of genera. The fact is that also this form of pedicellariæ shows some variability, is some- times even quite wanting in some individuals, so that it is no quite reliable character. An extra- ordinary fact is «dass sehr åhnliche Formen dieser Pedicellarien bei Arten vorkommen kånnen, die nach den ubrigen Charakteren sehr wenig Verwandtschaft mit einander bekunden» (C. metwlaria and verticillata). His final result is: «In vielen Fållen hat nun ohne Frage die Vergleichung der Pedicel- larien nicht geringen Werth fur die Systematik; sie geben jedenfalls sehr brauchbare Charaktere zur Unterscheidung der Arten. — Zur Charakterisierung von gråsseren Gruppen innerhalb der Familie finde ich aber Pedicellarien sehr wenig verwendbar» (p. 34). And so the last hope of finding good generic characters in the Cidarids seems to have vanished. Fortunately, however, my researches have given another result than that of Dåderlein, viz. that thelpedicellariæ yield'excellent'generic'charactersy while they may onlymorerTately be used for distinguishing between the species. This seems to be irreconcilable with the above quoted statement of Dåderlein that species not more nearly related, may have quite similar pedicellariæ. As instances are only named Cy7daris metularia and vertrcillata. Now it is quite correct that they have the same kind of pedicellariæ; but then the question is whether the other characters, in which they differ, are sufficient to show that they cannot belong to the same genus. The most essential difference seems to be found in the spines, which are in C. verzrcr/lata provided with large thorns placed in circles far from each other, while in C. metularra the spines have the whole surface evenly set with homogeneous, small tubercles arranged in longitudinal series. Also with regard to the provision of the interambulacral plates with miliary tubercles a difference is found — they are almost naked in C. verticwllata, closely covered in C. metularia. As it has otherwise proved to be a fact that the characters taken from the structure of the test have been anything but good as generic characters, and as there seems to be nothing unnatural in the fact that spines as those in C. metu- laria and verticillata are found in species of the same genus, I cannot but regard the fact of the two species having the same kind of (very characteristic) pedicellariæ as proving them to be nearly related, so that they will have to be regarded as not too closely allied species of the same genus. Besides there is another species of the same genus presenting considerably more resemblance to C.vertrer/lata than the C. metularia mentioned by Dåderlein. This is C. bacw/losa which is by Dåderlein referred 6 ECHINOIDEA. I. to the same genus (Zezoczdaris) as C.verticillata. In this species the thorns are often placed in circles in a somewhat similar way as in C. verZrerllatda. Especially the large globiferous pedicellariæ are of importance in the classification, the blade and partly also the stalk offering a great variety of forms. Also the length of the stalk is very different; this fact, however, has to be used with great caution, at it is very varying. Doderlein seems to put no small weight upon it. Also the small globiferous pedicellariæ are of rather great importance; more important, however, are the tridentate ones, which in a single genus, Forocidaris, are two-valved. In this genus (and perhaps in the genus //sZocidaris) globiferous pedicellariæ seem to be quite wanting; on the other hand tridentate pedicellariæ are wanting in several other species — but perhaps not constantly. That the globiferous or tridentate pedicellariæ may sometimes be want- ing, is mentioned by Dåderlein as an objection to their being used in the classification. I cannot see, however, that this objection is sound; a corresponding fact would be, ifwe were to give up using the teeth of the mammals as systematic characters, because now one, now another kind, or even sometimes all of them are wanting. When we now look over the Cidarids, and place together the species with similarly constructed pedicellariæ, we shall get a grouping rather differing from all hitherto given classifications. Dorocidaris papillata: the globiferous pedicellariæ have a powerful hook at the point, above the large, somewhat lenghtened, not terminal opening; small pedicellariæ of the same form; the triden- tate ones simple (Pl. IX, Figs. 7, 25). Quite similar pedicellariæ are found in Porocidaris Blakeri A. Ag. (Pl. IX, Fig. 16), which is accordingly a genuine Porocidaris. On the other hand the following species that have been referred to Morocidaris: D. Bartlettt Ag., bracteata Ag., and Rerni Dåderl. differ widely from this genus, and are moreover so different from each other that they must be referred to three different genera. I). bartletti: the globiferous pedicellariæ have a long powerful hook at the point. The opening is exceedingly small, as a fine pore, surrounded by small teeth; it is placed rather far from the point. (Pl. X, Figs. 23, 30). The stalk is most frequently provided with a limb of freely projecting calcareous ridges.. The small pedicellariæ are of the same structure, only the opening is larger; tridentate pedi- cellariæ simple. There can be no doubt but that this species must form a separate genus; I propose the name of Tretocidaris"). To this genus must further be referred the two following new species, which I found in British Museum, both under the name of Poroecrdaris papillata. Tretocidaris annulata n».sp. The globiferous pedicellariæ differ somewhat from those of 7. Bartletti the inside of the blade being provided with some dentate transverse ridges and crests forming a coarse, irregular reticulation; at the upper end of the apophysis the margin of the blade is somewhat widened, highly fenestrated in a reticulate way, and bent a little outward (Pl. X, Figs. 22, 31). The stalk (Pl. IX, Fig. 4) and the other pedicellariæ as in 7. Bartletti. The spines are finely annuiated with brown rings, the upper spines have powerful thorns especially on the side turned up; they are tapering, about one time and a half as long as the diameter of the test; the actinal spines were wanting in the specimen. There is a rather deep, naked furrow along the median line of the interambulacral areas, and it continues between the plates outward to where the scrobicular areas join each other. 1) TpnTtos bored. ECHINOIDEA. I. 17 There are 7 plates in the interambulacral areas. In the ambulacral area there is a little tubercle i Oc i SyUE alternately between each two primary tubercles [23], as in Porocidaris purpurata. "The colour of the test is redbrown, and therefore the white, naked furrow of the interambulacral areas is especially con- spicuous. — Locality: The West Indies (no nearer information). Should this species perhaps be Gray's Crdaris annulata? Tretocidaris spinosa n.sp. The globiferous pedicellariæ have no such reticulation as those of 7.annulata, and differ from those of 7: Bartletti by the sides forming an almost straight line from the basal surface to the opening. (Pl. X, Figs. 10, 11). The small globiferous pedicellariæ as in the two other species (Pl. X, Fig. 16). On the stalk no distinct, freely projecting calcareous ridges are seen, only a marked swelling. (It is, however, possible that the limb of the stalk is found on other specimens; in the two other species it was not found either in all the large globiferous pedicellariæ); tridentate pedicellariæ were not found. The spines closely grooved, rather finely thorned, widened at the point, of the same length as the diameter of the test. The actinal spines smooth, not serrated, their points not widened. The small spines are strongly redbrown. There is a naked median line in the interambulacral area, but it is only little conspicuous. 9 plates in the interambulacral area; thus the large spines are somewhat more numerous than commonly, which gives to the animal a very charac- teristic appearance. The tubercles in the ambulacral areas as in 7: annulata. Locality: St. Helena (no nearer information). «Dorocidaris» bracteata Ag. The globiferous pedicellariæ much lengthened and narrow, with a powerful hook at the end, and a rather small, triangular opening a little below the point (Pl. X, Fig. 18); the small pedicellariæ of the same structure, tridentate ones simple. This form of pedicel- lariæ is further found in «P-%y//acanthus» annulifera (Lamk.), Pl. X, Fig. 17, and SZephanocidaris bispi- nosa (Lamk.), and these species will have to be united into one genus, which must keep the name of Sztephanocidartis. «Dorocidaris» Reini Dåderl. The globiferous pedicellariæ are of a very peculiar structure; the mouth is placed in the end of the blade, surrounded by well marked teeth on the margin which is bent a little outward. «Schnauzenåhnlich vorragend» Dåderlein says of the blade in this peculiar form of pedicellariæ, and it really resembles a snout to some degree. On the stalk a limb of short thorns is found. The small pedicellariæ are of a quite different structure, a well developed end-tooth being found here, and the large mouth situated below the point. This form of pedicellariæ is found in a series of species, viz. Czdaris affinis (Pl. IX, Figs. 9, 22, 24) (which is in no way synonymous with /Doro- ctdaris papillata, as has been commonly supposed), Zrzbulordes, galapagensis — and, I suppose, also in Dorocidaris panamensis Ag.; at all events this species, to judge by the figure, would seem to be most nearly related to Cødaris affinis and Reini; it is scarcely a Dorocidaris.. The following species have pedicellariæ of the same structure, but are distinguished by having a limb of long, freely projecting calcareous ridges on the stalk of the globiferous pedicellariæ: Czdaris metularia, Thonarsi (according to Dåderlein (116 p. 19) Cidaris Thouarsii has only a short limb on the stalk; the specimens examined by me have long limbs), verzicr/lata and bacwlosa. Further has (according to the statement of Dåder- lein) Phyllacanthus impertalis the same kind of pedicellariæ (whether a limb is found on the stalk The Ingolf-Expedition. IV. 1. 3 18 ECHINOIDEA. I. or not, is not mentioned; I have not been able to find any large globiferous pedicellariæ in the few specimens I have examined), and the same, I suppose, holds also good with regard to Pr-yl/lacanthus dubia and parvispina Woods. Finally a similar form of giobiferous pedicellariæ is found in Gor10o- cidaris florigera Ag. («Challenger»-Echinoids, Pl. I. Fig. 12) (Pl. X, Figs. 27, 29); in the latter there is no trace of a limb on the stalk. Do now all these species belong to one genus? — Surely not. We shall first have to separate Goniocidaris florigera. It has no trace of a limb on the stalk, the spines differ considerably from those of all the other mentioned species, and I suppose that a closer examination will show several other peculiarities. Dåderlein (116) thinks it to be most nearly related to the species Gorzocidaris clypeata and G. mikado described by him, which species are distinguished by the spines being provided with a peculiar flat widening at the base. Traces of such a widening are also found in G./origera; but the pedicellariæ of this species are so different from those of the two mentioned species that their being united into one genus is out of the question. It differs also from the genuine Gorz0oc7daris-species (G. tubaria etc.) by its pedicellariæ; it must form a separate genus, for which I propose the name of Petalocidaris. There can scarcely be any doubt, however, that it is closely related to Gonzocidaris. Next Phryllacanthus tmperiralis must form a separate genus. It has peculiar large tridentate pedicellariæ, the blades of which are quite filled by a close net of meshes forming irregular longi- tudinal ridges closely set with small teeth (Pl. X Fig. 8); (the valve figured here, is from a smaller pedi- cellaria where only two longitudinal ridges are seen). The small pedicellariæ have no end-tooth (Pl. IX. Fig. 6). The spines are peculiar, thick, with fine longitudinal striæ. Together with this species Ph. dubra has no doubt to be placed — if upon the whole it can be kept as a separate species, of which I can have no decided opinion, as I have had no occasion to examine it. Also 2%y//ac. parvispina Woods must, to judge by the figure given by Woods (443), belong here; its spines resemble very much those of 2x. zmperralis though Woods states them to be «entirely different from any described species». Also Ramsay (331 p. 45) says of this species that on the Australian south-coast it is the «representative of 2. dubra of the North Coast». — This genus, no doubt, must keep Brandt's old name of 2%y//a- canthus. Brandt”) gives C/darites dubra as the type of the section «Phy//acanthus», and observes that to this will have to be added C.zmperialis, hystrix, geranroides, and pristillaris. The three latter can in 10 way be classed together with the two former; these two must keep the name of P--y//acanthus. Desor in his «Synopsis des Echinides fossiles» (1855) establishes the genus Zezocidaris (p. 48), and as the type of the genus he gives C/daris imperialis. — Thus there will be no use for the name of Zeio- cidaris, it will only be a synonym of P%y/lacanthus. — It will also be necessary to say some words of the much used name of Æ/Xabdocidaris by the present occasion. The genus has been established by Desor (op. cit. p. 39) for fossil species; in a note is added: «Parmi les espéces vivantes on pourrait reporter å ce genre les C7darrs tribulordes et C.zmperralis, si leurs tubercules 1'étaient pas complétement lisses». De Loriol (245) has later enlarged this genus to comprise: 1) The fossil species of the genus Rhabdocidaris sensu stricto, 2) the Æhabdocidaris-species with smooth tubercles, 3) the species of Lezocidaris Desor and Dames (emend.), 4) the recent species of the genus P%y//acanthus Brandt, 5) the genus Szephanocidaris Ag., and 6) the genus Sc/h/ernitzia Studer. «Ainsi 'constitué, le genre Rkadbdocidaris 1) Prodromus descriptionis animalium ab. H. Mertensio in orbis terrarum circumnavigatione observatorum. 1825 p. 68. ECHINOIDEA. I. 19 groupera naturellement un assez grand nombre d'espéces vivantes et fossiles et me parait utile å conserver». The advantage of such a «genus», however, seems to me to be rather illusory; with the limitation given by de Loriol Ækabdocidaris becomes still more heterogeneous than Prcy//acanthus, as it is limited by Agassiz in «Revision». As the genus has originally only been used of fossil species, it is quite impossible to decide whether some of the recent forms really belong to it; by the tests and the spines alone the genera cannot at present be recognised with certainty, and no pedicel- lariæ of fossil species are known. Accordingly the name of Æ-abdocidaris is not to be used for any recent Cidarid. On the other hand the other species with terminal opening on the globiferous pedicellariæ and limb on the stalk seem to form a natural group; the shortness or length of the limb can scarcely be used as a character for the subdivision of the group. Possibly C.a/finis and Rernri (and perhaps panamensis) will prove to form a special group — their spines seem to differ somewhat from the other mentioned species; but this can only be decided by more thorough examinations. For the present all these species: Cz/darrs affinis, Reint, (panamensis?), tribuloides, galapagensis, metularia, Thou- arsti, vertictllata, and baculosa") must form one genus, which must keep the old name of C7darrs, Linnés «Æchinus Cidaris», as has been proved by Lovén (252), being Cy7darrs baculosa Lamk. The name of Æxcidaris Pomel, which has of late often been used for species of this group, cannot correctly be used. Pomel (324) enumerates as types of this genus some fossil forms (morzerr etc.) from the trias, and «trois espéces vivantes», but he does not mention which species he means, and the fact is here, as in Æhcabdocidaris, that it is quite impossible to decide whether any of the recent species belong to the same genus as the mentioned fossil ones. Besides the species mentioned here, Dåderlein still enumerates «Lezocrdaris» annulyfera Lam. as belonging to those species, the globiferous pedicellariæ of which have terminal opening and limb on the stalk; here C.annulfera is referred to the genus SZephanocidaris which has a quite different form of pedicellariæ (see above) — a contradiction which can only have its origin from a difference in the interpretation of the species C.arnulfera Lamk. 'This species together with C. bacwlosa Lam. have caused and still cause many difficulties to the systematists. Lamarck2) in his diagnosis of C.annulifera says: «spinis majoribus longis, tereti-subulatis, asperulatis, albo purpureoque annulatis», and in his diagnosis of C. bacewlosa: «spinis majoribus subteretibus, tuberculato-asperis, apice truncatis, collo guttatis»; according to this Agassiz («Revision of Echini» p. 389) states as the only certain character of the highly varying C. bacwlosa «the spotted base of the shaft of the spine below the milled ring, which is of a light reddish or reddish-yellow ground-color, with deep violet spots marked extremely distinctly upon the fine longitudinal striation». Loriol (243) later describes and figures a Cidarid by the name of C.axrnu/lfera Lamk.; he has had a radiole of the type-specimen of this species for comparison, and has found it completely corresponding to those of the specimen described by him. These spines have «leur base couverte sur une longueur plus ou moins grande de petites taches pourpres, formant des lignes et entremélées de petits points» — the character especially particular of C. baculosa! "Thus, somehow or other, an error must have slipped in, and I think it most likely that 1) If C. Prstillaris Lamk. be a good species, it must also be referred here. 2) Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertébres. II. Ed. 1840. T. III. p. 380. 20 ECHINOIDEA. I the spine, which Loriol has got from Paris, has really been of C. bacx/losa — such a changing of loose spines in a museum is not absolutely inconceivable. The C. Lztkeni described by Loriol in the same work, seems rather to be the real C. ammu/lfera, which must then be very nearly related to C. bispinosa, perhaps identical with it. Bedford (35 p. 274) also regards C. Leitkeni' as synonymous with C. ammulifera Lamk., but at the same time he seems to think it to be identical with Loriol's C.annulifera, which cannot be correct. Dåderlein, who has examined a specimen of Loriol's C. annulifera, finds this species to be highly consistent with C., bacw/losa. «Einen Unterschied zwischen den beiden Arten kann ich nur in der Fårbung der Primårstacheln finden; denn selbst die Form der Primårstacheln kann bei bestimmten Individuen beider Arten identisch sein. — Nur die Fårbung des Schaftes ist verschieden, indem Z. ammulfera Querbinden zeigt, die Z. baculosa fehlen; die eigenthtim- liche und auffallende Tiupfelung des Stachelhalses dagegen, die sonst nirgends zu beobachten ist, findet sich bei beiden Arten in gleicher Weise. Nachdem aber eine Autoritåt wie Al. Agassiz auf Grund eines reichlichen Materials die Frage nach der måglichen Identitåt der beiden Arten iuberhaupt nicht aufwirft, kann ich es nicht wagen bei meinem ganz unzulånglichen Materiale eine solche zu behaupten. Ich kann hier nur constatieren, dass die oben beschriebene jugendliche Z. axmw/ifera nach ihren såmmtlichen Charakteren, abgesehen nur von der Fårbung der Stacheln, unbedingt als ein junges Exemplar von Z. bacwlosa gelten kånnte» (116 p. 24). Prominence is also given to the fact that the pedicellariæ are quite identical. In another work (245) Loriol gives a thorough description and figures of C. baculosa, but its resemblance with the C. axmulfera before described by him, is not at all mentioned. Thus the fact seems to be: either Loriol's C. anmulifera is really this species — and then C. bacwlosa Lamk. and C. annulfera are synonyms — or it has, on account of some error or other, been wrongly determined — and then C. ammulifera is most nearly related to C. brspinosa Lamk. (perhaps synonymous with it). The latter is the more probable. An examination of the type- specimens, especially their pedicellariæ, will easily decide this question. To be sure, Perrier has figured pedicellariæ of these two species, but unfortunately only so little exactly and minutely that he has not at all contributed to the clearing up of the question, especially as of one species he has only figured a globiferous pedicellaria, of the other only a tridentate one. According to Dåderlein (116 p. 25) Sc//lermitzia crenularis Studer is very nearly related to C. baculosa; Studer's figures (386) agree also partly with it, the separately figured spines having all the characteristic spots on the neck. On the figure of the whole animal these spots, however, are not found, and as, according to informations I have received from both Geh.rath, Prof. E.v. Martens and Prof. Doåderlein, spines of at least two different species are found in the glass together with the type-specimen (v. Martens has sent me some of the spines), the safest plan will be to say nothing definite of this species, till the pedicellariæ of the type-specimen have been examined. Studer only figures the small form of the globiferous pedicellariæ. Among the species referred to 2%y//acanthus by Agassiz, still one has not been mentioned, viz. Ph. gigantea Ag. It differs from all other known Cidarids by its peculiar spines, as well primary as secondary ones; also its pedicellariæ are peculiar. The large globiferous ones (Pl. X, Figs. 15, 19) have a large cordate opening the lower limit of which is formed like a highly protruding lower lip; the opening reaches to the very point, and no end-tooth is found. No limb on the stalk. The ECHINOIDEA. I. 21 small pedicellariæ are of a somewhat different form (Pl. X, Fig. 26), and have a more or less powerful end-tooth. Tridentate pedicellariæ about as in Porocidaris papillata, only with the edge somewhat more dentate. Spicules of the common form. It is obvious that this species cannot) remain in the genus P%yllacanthus as here limited, or be referred to any of the mentioned genera; it must form a separate genus and retain the name of C-xondrocidaris, originally given to it by Agassiz"). The splendid Czdaris curvatispinis described by Bell (74), is in its whole appearance so unlike all other Cidarids that it is beforehand to be supposed that it represents a separate genus. The examination of its pedicellariæ also confirms this supposition. The globiferous pedicellariæ (Pl. VIII, Fig. 37) have no end-tooth; the opening is large, reaching to the point, but its lower limit is remark- ably irregular — the figured one is one of the most regular; sometimes there seems to be no definite limit at all, the calcareous covering running out into irregular dents, as if it was broken off (which is, however, quite out of the question, as the pedicellaria was otherwise quite undamaged). The small pedicellariæ are of the same structure, the only difference being that the lower limit of the opening is here often a rather regular transverse line. (The possibility that the described and figured pedicel- laria is really, in spite of its size, only the small form of the globiferous pedicellariæ, is not excluded; but on the only known specimen, which by the kindness of Prof. Bell I had the opportunity to examine in British Museum, there seemed to be found no other kind of globiferous pedicellariæ). The tridentate pedicellariæ (Pl. X, Fig. 9) are very peculiar, with some large, dentate crests of thin calcareous lamellæ longitudinally in the blade. No limb on the stalk. The spicules of the common form. For this species I propose the generic name of Acanthocidaris. The genus Forocidaris is established by Desor (op. cit. p. 46) for some fossil Cidarids, especially distinguished by a circle of pores in the scrobicular area; to this genus Wyville Thomson (394—95) referred a Cidarid from «Porcupine» under the name of FPorocidaris purpurata. Whether it really belongs to this genus cannot be decided, till the pedicellariæ of the fossil species referred to it by Desor, become known. But to judge by what is hitherto known the species may well seem to be a Porocidaris, and for the present there seems to be no reason to reject this commonly used name, and P. purpurata W.'Th. may then be put down as the type of the genus. Peculiarities of this genus are then the depressions in the scrobicular area (not pores as in the fossil species), the highly developed neck of the spines, the highly serrate edge of the actinal radioles>). But the most particular feature are the pedicellariæ. Only one form is found which must be referred to the tridentate ones; they are two-valved, highly compressed, and exceedingly large and conspicuous. The spicules of the common form. To Porocidaris have later been referred the following species: PP. elegans Ag., Sharreri Ag., Milleri Ag., Cobosi Ag., gracilis Sladen, gracrlis Dåderl., misaktensis Yoshiwara, and zxcerta Koehler. Of these species 2. gracilis Sladen is, no doubt, only a young 2. pærpurata, and this name is then to be omitted as a synonym. 2. elegans (one of the type-specimens («Challenger» St. 164a) examined in British Museum): the tridentate pedicellariæ are widely different from those of 2. purpurata. "There I) List of Echinoderms sent to different Institutions in exchange for other specimens, with annotations. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. I. 1863. 2) Especially the latter fact is often mentioned as characteristic of the genus; this, however, is not at all reliable, as sufficiently shown by these researches. ECHINOIDEA. I. | NY Ny are two forms, a larger and a smaller, both three-valved. In the larger form the blade is filled by an exceedingly rich net of meshes, in which the holes are rather distinctly arranged serially, and radiate in a fanshaped way from the upper end of the apophysis; this net is covered with numerous small thorns, especially towards the point. Also the upper edge of the apophysis is very broad and full of holes. (The figures im the «Challenger»-Echinoids, Pl. XLIV, 6—14, are not very good, especially not figs. 6 and 11, where it is not seen at all that the whole mass filling the blade, is really a net of meshes with innumerable larger and smaller holes). In the other, smaller form the apophysis has the common structure; the blade is highly compressed, deep, and filled with an irregular net of meshes where the holes are not at all serially arranged. Transitions are however found between the two forms, so that they cannot be said to be two distinct kinds. When Agassiz (Chall. Ech. p. 43) says of «the large-headed, shortstemmed pedicellariæ» that they are «very similar to those of Poroecrdaris», this is only so far correct, as tridentate pedicellariæ, of course, always in some degree resemble each other; in the finer structure the large tridentate pedicellariæ of this species are especially widely different from those of”). paprllata. The small ones are much more similar. — Agassiz (Il. c.) mentions one more form of pedicellariæ, «shortstemmed globular abactinal pedicellariæ» (Pl. XLIV, 10); they are, as I have been able to substantiate, only developmental forms of the large tridentate pedicellariæ. I am a little in doubt whether globiferous pedicellariæ are found. In my preparation of isolated skeleton- pieces of pedicellariæ of this species is seen one valve of a small globiferous pedicellaria, which is very peculiar, with two large teeth at the point, and a rather small opening surrounded by well developed teeth (Pl. IX, Fig. 2). As, however, only one such valve is found, it may be thought to have come in by chance; in this case it must be abnormal, as no other Cidarid examined by me, is possessed of such pedicellariæ. For the present this must be left undecided. — It is obvious that this species has no relation with 2. purpurata, and as it shows no nearer relation to any other known species, it must form a separate genus, for which I propose the name of Histocidaris. P. Sharreri: Agassiz (9) unfortunately gives no details as to the pedicellariæ, and from the figure (op. cit. Pl. III) it cannot be decided whether it is a genuine Porocidaris. There seems to be no highly developed neck on the spines (in the text nothing is said of this feature); the pedicellariæ might well look like those of P. purpurata, but a close examination will be necessary for the decision. By the kindness of Prof. Rathbun I have from U.S. National Museum received a specimen deter- mined as P. S/harreri («Albatross» 1885. St. 2415); it proved to be the new species Szereocidaris ingolfiana described hereafter; it has no relation to 2. Sarreri. Further I have in British Museum seen a specimen determined as 2. S%arreri, from U.S. Fish Commission («Albatross» 1885. St. 2345). Neither seems this specimen to be identical with the real, figured Z. S%arreri, at all events it does not to any striking degree resemble the figure given by Agassiz. It is no Porocidaris. The pedicellariæ (Pl. IX, Fig. 26) are much like those of Porocidaris, only the opening of the large globiferous pedicellariæ is more round and of a more definite form than is otherwise the case in this genus; but this fact might very well be interpreted as a specific difference. Tridentate pedicellariæ simple. A much more con- siderable difference is found in the spines; they are long, slender — unfortunately they were broken, so that their length and the form of their point are unknown. The base is finely pink, the outer part white. They are quite smooth and shining, as if polished, and the structure of the outer layer ECHINOIDEA. I. 23 is peculiar (Pl. XI. Fig. 24) with no trace of roughness on the surface. Perhaps the specimen of Porocidaris Sharreri mentioned by Agassiz (9 p. 13) «which was of a light greenish pink color when alive, the spines white with a delicate brownish-pink base» is identical with the specimen described here — in this case this specimen mentioned by Agassiz has certainly not been of the same species as the one he figures; but this latter must, of course, keep the name of Scarrerr. There can be no doubt that the specimen described here is a new species; whether it also is to be regarded as a new genus, or belongs to Porocidaris, can only be decided, when the systematic significance of the spines has been established. For the present it ought to be classed with Poroeczdaris, under the name of D. micans n. sp. Neither is: 2. zxæcerta Koehler (233 a), of which species Prof. v. Beneden has lent me a speci- men for examination, a Porocidaris. I have only found one form of globiferous pedicellariæ on it; it has no end-tooth, the opening small, round (Pl. VIII, Fig. 31). Most likely another, larger form of globiferous pedicellariæ will be found in this species; but the figured form is a sufficient proof that this species has no relation to FPoroczdaris. Koehler also refers it only in a doubtful way to Foro- cidaris on account of the highly dentate actinal radioles. The spicules are simple. Of the other species that have been referred to Porocidaris, P. Cobosi most likely is a genuine Porocidaris, but it cannot be decided with certainty, till the pedicellariæ have been examined. For the present nothing can be said with certainty of 2. 2/W//eri and misakrensis; according to Agassiz (13) 2. Milleri is «closely allied to P. elegans». On the other hand it may be said with certainty that P. gracilis Dåderl. is no Porocidaris. Its globiferous pedicellariæ of which only one form is known, recall to some degree those of «Gonzocidaris» canaliculata; tridentate pedicellariæ unknown. Perhaps it ought to form a separate genus. The genera ,SZereocidaris and Gonzocidaris to which a whole series of species have been referred, are still left. The species referred to SZereocridaris: japonica, grandis, sceptriferoides, and the here described new species ,5Z. z»golfiana agree in the structure of the pedicellariæ: there is no end-tooth, and the large opening reaching to the very point is broad and well limited below, quite narrow above. The small globiferous pedicellariæ chiefly of the same structure, without end-tooth; the tridentate pedicellariæ seem to show no special peculiarities (they are not known in all the species). The spicules are rather large fenestrated plates, not thorny bows, as is else the case in the Cidarids — this, however, does not apply to all the species; in 5. grandis they are of the common form, and so the spicules give no reliable generic character. There is no reason to doubt that also .52. zædica Dåderl. really belongs to this genus, although we have no informations of its pedicellariæ. Dåderlein further thinks (118) that Poroerdaris trara and a/lcockr are perhaps only local forms of this species. Of the species ,SZ. Zemuispinus and microtuberculatus Yoshiw. nothing can be said with certainty. — Whether this group of species really belongs to the same genus as the fossil SZereocidaris-species, cannot be definitely decided, until the pedicellariæ of the latter are known; but the probability is that they really belong here, and there is no reason, at all events not for the present, to reject the name of Szereocidaris for them. To the genus Gonzocidaris, the only one of the hitherto admitted genera that has been com- monly acknowledged, the following species have been referred: geranzoides Lamk., zubaria Lamk., 24. ECHINOIDEA. I. canaliculata Ag. (to which C7daris nutrix W.'Th., Gon1ioc. vivipara Studer, and G. membranipora Studer are referred as synonyms), /Zorigera Ag., Døderlerni Ag., biserialis Dåderl., c/ypeata Dåderl., umbraculum Hutton, and /MMortenseni Koehler. 'Types of this genus are the species geranzordes and tubaria, espe- cially peculiar by having rather deep pits between the plates, in each of which pits is placed an almost globular pedicellaria. These pedicellariæ are very peculiar, short and broad; the opening, which is small and surrounded with distinect teeth, reaches to the point, so that no end-tooth is found (Pl. X, Fig. 20). The small globiferous pedicellariæ have a powerful end-tooth; no tridentate pedicel- lariæ seem to be found. Spicules of the common form. There can be no doubt that G. geranioides has the same structure of the pedicellariæ as G. Zwbaria; the large globiferous ones are figured by Agassiz (Revision Pl. XXIV, 12—13), and they are obviously very similar to those of zwbarra. Perrier (op. cit. Pl. III, 12) figures a small globiferous pedicellaria, but the figure gives no clear information of the structure of the point; the text, however, leaves no doubt that it is built as in G. tubaria. Most closely allied to these two species is no doubt G. umbraculum Hutton. The pedi- cellariæ (Pl. X. Figs. 13, 21) show only little difference from those of the two mentioned species. Also G. bisertalis Døderl. belongs here; to be sure, it is not clear from the figures and description of Dåderlein, in what way the small globiferous pedicellariæ are constructed, but Prof. Dåderlein has kindly sent me a preparation, so that I have been able to substantiate that they are built as in the other species, with a powerful end-tooth (Pl. IX, Fig. 10). The two species G. cZ/ypeata and mikado are especially distinguished from the other Gowzocidarrs-species by the spines being highly widened, and having, moreover, a peculiar basal widening; the impressions in the angles of the plates are indistinct; the pedicellariæ seem also to be somewhat different from those of the typical Gonriocidarrs- species, although agreeing with them in main features (no end-tooth on the large pedicellariæ, an even uncommonly powerful one on the small ones). Thus there seems to be every reason to comprise these species in a separate subgenus, /zscocidaris, as proposed by Doåderlein (114). Dåderlein thinks that G. /Zorzgera must be referred to the same group, especially because it also shows the basal widening on the spines, although only as a trace. It has long been doubtful to me, whether the two forms figured by Agassiz as G. /lorigera (Chall. Ech. Pl. I. Figs.7 and 12), were really the same species, and my doubt was confirmed, when I had examined the type-specimens in British Museum. They are not only two different species, they will even undoubtedly have to be referred to two different genera — and moreover it appeared that among the specimens determined as G. /dorr- gera still a third form was hidden, which must also form a new genus. The form meant by Dåderlein when he places G. /origera together with c/ypeata and mrkado, is the one figured in Fig. 12; it is this form of which the spines show traces of the basal widening. It has already been mentioned above, and a new genus has been established for it: Pezalocidaris, its pedicellariæ not admitting it to be referred to any of the other known genera. Otherwise it is presumably most closely allied to the two mentioned species. The other form, which is figured in Fig. 7, shows no basal widening on the spines, which are, upon the whole, very much different from those of PeZa/o- etdaris; they are highly and rather regularly thorny, evenly tapering. In none of the three specimens (Chall. St. 204) I have examined, large globiferous pedicellariæ were found, but only the small form, which is quite similar to the small pedicellariæ of Prscocrdaris (Pl. X. Figs. 6—7); for the present ECHINOIDEA. I. 25 therefore, I think it better to refer it to this subgenus; the spines, to be sure, show no trace of the widenings peculiar to the two other species, but the not widened spines of the latter are rather similar to those of this species, for which I propose the name of Discocidaris serrata n. sp. From st. 192 (Chall.) a specimen is found referred by Agassiz to G. /origera, which it also resembles rather well (i. e. it resembles the one figured in Fig. 12, Peztalocidaris florigera). The spines are much richer thorny than in this species; the ambulacral areas almost naked. The pedicellariæ are very peculiar (Pl. X. Figs. 25, 28). The opening is a long, narrow slit reaching not quite to the point; a powerfully developed end-tooth is found. The small pedicellariæ are essentially of the same structure, the opening only being somewhat shorter and a little broader. Such pediceilariæ have not been found in any of the other known species, and accordingly this species must form a separate genus, for which I propose the name of Schizocidaris with the species Sch. assimilis n. sp.) According to Agassiz (Chall. Ech. p. 43 seq.), Goniocidaris canaliculata is exceedingly varying; he thinks that C7darrs nutrix W. Th. must be regarded as one of the many forms of this species, and also that G. vzvzpara and membranipora are synonymous with it. After having examined the speci- mens of G. canaliculata in British Museum I must admit that it really appears as if they all formed only one highly varying species, in which a great number of transitional forms connect the easily recognised extreme forms. If we examine the pedicellariæ, we shall get another conviction; we shall then see that at all events three different species are found among these specimens referred to G. canaliculata. There is a fact that ought to have made Agassiz hesitate in referring them all to one species. He quotes the description by Wyv. Thomson (397) how the eggs of C. mutrix «are passed along on the surface of the test towards the mouth, and the smaller slightly spathulate prim- ary spines, which are articulated to about the first three rows of tubercles round the peristome, are bent inwards over the mouth, so as to form a kind of open tent, in which the young are developed». Immediately after this quotation Agassiz (op. cit. p. 45) says: «The specimen (Pl. IL. fig. 2) shows the manner in which they are held in a sort of marsupium by the folding of the abactinal spines over the young crowded upon the abactinal system». Thus in this species not only a nursing of the brood should take place, but the young should even be placed, now round the mouth, now on the apical area. Even if this were not inconceivable, it would have been worthy of remark; but Agassiz has no word of it, though it might seem to imply that C7darrs mutrix is really specifically different from Gonioc. canaliculata. Wyv. Thomson (397 p.66) also remarks expressly that in G. canalrculata we have the reverse of the fact in C. mutrix: «These spines ... lean over towards the anal opening, and form an open tent for the protection of the young as in C7daris nutrix, but at the opposite pole of the body». There is also another fact that ought to raise the suspicion against the interpretation of all these forms as one species: most of the specimens are coast-forms, taken on depths of 3—150 fathoms; from this there is a far cry to a depth of 1600 fathoms and more. Beforehand it is very improbable that the same species should be found in so varying depths. This fact is not mentioned by Agassiz either. According to my examinations C7daris nutrix is specifically different from G. 1) Unfortunately I made no more thorough notes on this specimen, as during my stay at Br. Mus. I had no clear understanding of the fact that it was a genus quite different from the other specimens called G. /origera. I did not get a clear view of this fact till after my return, when I had examined the pedicellariæ more exactly. The peculiar pedicellariæ may, however, be sufficient for the identification of the species, and therefore I do not hesitate to give it a name here, The Ingolf-Expedition. IV. 1. 4 26 ECHINOIDEA. I. canaliculata; among the deep-sea forms at all events one new species is found, and upon the whole scarcely any genuine G. cana/lrculata is found among them. In the typical G. canalrculata the large globiferous pedicellariæ do not differ much from those of Gonzocidaris tubarta, or still less from those of G. wmbraculum; they are somewhat narrower, and the blade is a little curved inward below the rather large opening that reaches to the point; there is no end-tooth (Pl. VIIL Figs. 8, 32). The small pedicellariæ, on the other hand, are very different from those of the genuine Gowzocidarrs-species, as there is no end-tooth (Pl. VIIL Fig.6). . Spicules simple. — The young are carried on the apical area. «C7daris» nutrix (Wyv. Thomson's type specimen examined): the large pedicellariæ (Pl. X. Figs. 3—4, 12, 14) very much resembling those of .SZereocidaris grandis (Doåderlein 116. Pl. VIII. 2); the small globiferous ones (Pl. X. Fig. 24) chiefly as in G. canal- culata. — The young are carried round the mouth. The two species are most frequently easily distinguished as to their habitus. In C. mutrix the apical area is densely set with rather long, club-shaped spines, between which large pedicellariæ are found abundantly. In G. canaliculata the apical area is set with rather few and scattered, not club- shaped spines some of which are quite small, so that the area looks rather naked; generally no pedi- cellariæ are found on the apical area. This difference, however, is not absolutely reliable, and without the pedicellariæ the two species are not always to be distinguished with certainty. It is evident that these two species cannot be referred to the genus Gowrzocidaris; especially the small pedicellariæ are different from those of Gowzocidaris, as they have no end-tooth. Dåderlein (116. p. 18) thinks G. canalrculata to be nearly allied to Porocidaris; to be sure it occupies an extreme position in the «Dorocidaris»-group, and perhaps it might also be regarded as the only representative of a special group. In many respects it recalis the «Æwcrdaris»-group. «Wirklich nahe Beziehungen zu einer der bisher bekannten Arten von Cidariden bietet diese Form jedenfalls nicht dar». — As has already been mentioned, the pedicellariæ of C. »utrix are very similar to those of SZereocidaris grandis, and these two species would seem to have to be referred to the genus SZereocidaris; at all events there seems to be no objection of consequence to their being referred to this genus, and it might be difficult to point out a character, which would necessitate the establishing of a special genus for these species. The simple spicules are in accordance with those of 57. grandis (in the other SZereocidarrs- species they are, as mentioned, large fenestrated plates). Of the species « Gonzocidaris» vivipara and membranipora the former (according to Studer, 386) is synonymous with G. canaliculata, which statement I am able to corroborate from the examination of a specimen that our museum has received from the museum at Berlin. The other (also according to examination of specimens from the museum at Berlin) is identical with «C-daris» nutrix W.Th., as has already been supposed by Studer (385). As the paper by W.yv. Thomson (397) bears the date of June 1" 1876, and that of Studer (384) the date of July 27" 1876, the name of wutrix has the priority. Now we meet here with a new difficulty. Studer says of G. membranipora (384 Pp- 455): Die jungen Czdaris bleiben auf dem Analfelde der Mutter bis zu ihrer vålligen Entwicklung, von den obern Stachelreihen geschitzt, die sich kreuzweise dartber legen». According to this statement this species would seem nevertheless to carry the young now arround the mouth, now on the apical area. As this seems to me to be very improbable, I must suppose a mistake to have taken place, so that ECHINOIDEA. I. 27 the specimen (or specimens?), which Studer has had, with young ones on the apical area, is not G. membrantipora (= nutrix), but canaliculata, and then it is scarcely from Kerguelen (comp. the fol- lowing about the occurrence of these two species). When the pedicellariæ are not examined — which has evidently not been done by Studer — it is, as has been stated above, not always to be decided with certainty, to which of the two species a specimen in hand belongs; this will especially hold good, when, as the case has been here, the apical area is not to be seen. Among the rather numerous specimens of these two species exam ned by me (from «Chal- lenger» at British Museum), .$2. canaliculata was only taken at the Falkland Islands and a station near those islands, «Chall». st. 315, SZ. wutrix only at Kerguelen. Some specimens from st. 150 («Chall.») near Kerguelen, 150 fathoms, have pedicellariæ as those of the typical SZ. »utriæx but the spines are much longer, three times the diameter of the test; perhaps it is a separate species. Wyv. Thomson (397) mentions C. »utrix from Kerguelen, G. canaliculata from the Falkland Islands. In the same way Studer's G. vzvipara (= canaliculata) is from Patagonia, his G. membranrpora from Kerguelen. Thus it would seem that these two species do not occur together; SZ. canaliculata is found at the southern coasts of South America, .S$Z. mutrix at Kerguelen. Agassiz, to be sure, mentions ,SZ. canalrculata from several other localities at Kerguelen, but according to what is shown here his statement is not to be relied upon. Until a definite proof of the opposite fact comes forth, I must believe that either of these species has a territory of its own, as represented here. Among the deep-sea specimens referred by Agassiz to G. canaliculata, I have only examined two from Chall. st. 156 (the South Polar Sea, 1975 fathoms). No doubt they represent another species. The large globiferous pedicellariæ (Pl. VIII, Fig. 35) recall very much those of the Gonzocidaris-species, but the small ones are like those in canaliculata and nutrix; and thus it would seem that this species must also be referred to Szereocidaris.. The ground-colour is very dark, almost black; the primary spines are white, the actinal ones highly indented in the edge. Perhaps it may prove to be identical with «Porocidaris» incerta Koehler. I have not examined the specimens from st. 147 (1600 fathoms) and 153 (1675 fathoms), but that they are not identical with SZ. canalreulata or nutrix, which live on shallow water, may be said a priori with a great deal of probability. Goniocidaris Mortenseni Koehler. Koehler (233a) in his excellent description of this species mentions only one form of pedicellariæ with «ordinairement un ou deux crochets plus ou moins marqués» at the point of the valves. This statement does not give sufficiently clear information, neither does the figure of a whole pedicellaria given by Koehler show the systematically important structures in a sufficiently exact way. Prof. v. Beneden has most kindly sent me a couple of speci- mens for examination, so that I am able to supply the informations wanting, and assign to this uncommonly fine and characteristic species its place in the system. The large globiferous pedicellariæ have no end-tooth; they are "quite similar to those of Szereocidaris nutrix, so that I can simply refer to the figures of the latter. The small globiferous pedicellariæ are rather characteristic (Pl. VIII, Fig. 34); they have no end-tooth, and the opening is small they recall those of «Porocrdarrs» incerta very much. The spicules simple. Accordingly this species is no Goniocidaris, but will probably have to be referred to the genus SZereocidaris, to which genus perhaps also «Porocidaris» incerta ought to be referred. Aå 28 ECHINOIDEA. I. Of the other species referred to Gorzocidaris, G. Døderlerni, according to Agassiz, is most nearly allied to canaliculata; nothing, however, can be said with certainty, till its pedicellariæ have been examined. Phyllacanthus australs Ramsay is still to be mentioned. As to its place in the system can for the present only be said that it belongs scarcely to the genus P%y//acanthus as limited here; where it is else to be referred we can only learn when its pedicellariæ have been examined. According to the researches reported here the system of the Cidarids will look as follows: Dorocidaris A. Ag. (emend.). Large globiferous pedicellariæ with well-developed end-tooth; the opening large, rounded or irregular below, not reaching the point. No limb on the stalk. Small pedicellariæ with end-tooth; tridentate pedicellariæ simple; spicules simple. Species: .D. paprllata (Leske), Blaker Ag., (?) micans n. sp. Distribution: The Northern Atlantic, the Mediterranean. Sublittoral-archibental forms?). Tretocidaris n. g. Large globiferous pedicellariæ with powerful end-tooth; the opening a quite small pore rather far from the point. A limb on the stalk, more or less developed. Small pedicellariæ like the large ones, only with a somewhat larger opening. Tridentate pedicellariæ simple; spicules simple. Species: 7: Bartletti (A. Ag.), annulata mn. sp., spinosa n. sp. Distribution: The warm regions of the Atlantic. Littoral(?)-sublittoral forms. Stephanocidaris A. Ag. (emend.). Large globiferous pedicellariæ much lengthened and slender with distinct end-tooth; the open- ing rather small, triangular, a little below the point. No limb on the stalk. Small pedicellariæ of the same structure; tridentate pedicellariæ simple. Spicules simple. Species: ,5Z. brspinosa (Lamk.), annulifera (Lamk.), bracteata (Ag.). Distribution: The Indian Archipelago, Australia. Littoral-sublittoral forms. Schizocidaris 1. g. Large globiferous pedicellariæ with distinct end-tooth; the opening a long, narrow slit. No limb on the stalk. Small pedicellariæ like the large ones, only the mouth a little shorter and broader. Tridentate pedicellariæ? Spicules? Species: Sc/4. assimilis mn. sp. Distribution: Near New Guinea (Chall. st. 192). Sublittoral. Cidaris Klein (emend.). Large globiferous pedicellariæ with small terminal opening; the blade somewhat prolonged in a snout-shaped way. No end-tooth. A more or less developed limb on the stalk. Small pedicellariæ with well developed end-tooth and large, not terminal opening. Tridentate pedicellariæ simple Spicules simple. 1) In the present work distinction is made between the littoral belt, the sublittoral, archibental, and abyssal belt. The first is reckoned from o—ca. 50 fathoms, the second from ca. 50—ca. 300 fathoms, the third from ca. 300—ca. 1500 fathoms; greater depths are called abyssal. It is impossible to fix the limits between these regions more exactly. ECHINOIDEA. I. 29 Species: C. affinis Phil., Rezni Dåderl., éribuloides Lamk., galapagensis Dåderl., metularia Lamk., Thouarsi Val., vertrcrllata Lamk., baculosa Lamk. Distribution: Cosmopolitan in the warm seas; the Mediterranean, Japan. Littoral-sub- littoral forms. Chondrocidaris A. Ag. Large globiferous pedicellariæ with large, cordate opening, the lower limit of which forms a projecting lip; the opening reaches the point; no end-tooth; no limb on the stalk. Small pedicellariæ with a more or less developed end-tooth. Tridentate pedicellariæ simple (rather highly dentate). Spicules simple. Species: Cx. gægantea A. Ag. Distribution: The Sandwich Islands, Mauritius. Littoral. Acanthocidaris n. g. Large globiferous pedicellariæ with large opening, irregularly limited below and reaching the point; no end-tooth; no limb on the stalk. Small pedicellariæ of the same structure as the large ones. Tridentate pedicellariæ with delicate, dentate lamellæ in the blade. Spicules simple. The spines long, compressed, curved. Species: Å. curvatispinis (Bell). Distribution: Mauritius. Littoral (?). Stereocidaris Pomei. Large globiferous pedicellariæ with large opening reaching quite to the point; no end-tooth; no limb on the stalk. Small pedicellariæ of the same structure, without end-tooth. Tridentate pedi- cellariæ simple. The spicules often larger, ienestrated plates; in some species simple. Species: .5Z. zaponica Dåderl., grandis Dåderl., sceptriyeroides Dåderl., zndica Dåderl., zægolfiana n. sp., wutrix (Wyv. Thoms.), canaliculata (A. Ag.), Mortensent (Koehler), (?) zxcerta (Koehler). Distribution: Cosmopolitan. Littoral-archibental forms. Goniocidaris Desor. Large globiferous pedicellariæ with rather small opening reaching the point; no end-tooth. The valves very short and broad. No limb on the stalk. Small pedicellariæ with powerful end-tooth. Tridentate pedicellariæ seem not to be found. Spicules of the common form. The spines more or less irregularly widened. The test with deep impressions in the angles between the plates. Species: G. Zubaria (Lamk.), geranrordes (Lamk.), brserialis Dåderl., zømbraculum Hutton. Distribution: Australia, Japan. Littoral-sublittoral forms. Subgen. Discocidaris Dåderl. Pedicellariæ chiefly as in Gomzocidaris. The spines most frequently much widened at the point and with basal widening. Species: DD. clypeata Dåderl., mrkado Dåderl., (?) serrata n. sp. Distribution: Japan, the Philippine Islands. Sublittoral forms. Petalocidaris n. g. Large globiferous pedicellariæ with small terminal opening, the blade somewhat elongated. 30 ECHINOIDEA. I. No end-tooth; no limb on the stalk. Small pedicellariæ with end-tooth and large, not terminal opening. Tridentate pedicellariæ ?, spicules ?. Spines extended in a more or less flower-like way, trace of basal widening. Species: PP. /lorigera (A. Ag.). Distribution: The Philippines (Chall. st. 204) (or New Guinea; Chall. st. 192). Sublittoral. Phyllacanthus Brandt (emend.). Synonym: Zezocidaris Desor. Large globiferous pedicellariæ with small terminal opening; no end-tooth; the blade prolonged in a snout-like way. Limb on the stalk? Small pedicellariæ with end-tooth. Tridentate pedicellariæ with the blade filled by a close reticulation forming irregular longitudinal ridges closely set with teeth. Spicules simple. Spines large and thick, finely striated. Species: 2%. zmperialis (Lamk.), (?) dubra Brandt, (?) parvispina Woods. Distribution: "The Red Sea, the Indian Ocean, Australia. Littoral forms. Histocidaris n. g. Large globiferous pedicellariæ unknown; small pedicellariæ with two rather strong end-teeth (?). Tridentate pedicellariæ of a larger and a smaller form; the blade of the large ones is filled by a rich net of meshes, the holes of which are rather distinctly arranged in series, and radiate in a fan- shaped way from the upper end of the apophysis; numerous small thorns on the inner surface of the blade, especially towards the point; also the apophysis is broad and full of holes. The smaller form simple. Spicules simple. Spines long and slender. Species: /. elegans (A. Ag.). Distribution: Australia (New Guinea, the Philippines). Archibenthal. Porocidaris Desor. Only large two-valved pedicellariæ. The spines with very long neck. Spicules simple. Species: 2. purpurata W. 'Thoms. Distribution: The Northern Atlantic. Archibenthal. Incertæ sedis: Dorocidaris panamensis Ag. == tara Anderson. = GlcCOGRU Szereoctdaris tenurspinus Noshiw. == microtuberculatus Voshiw. Porocidaris misakrtensis — — Scarreri Ag. — Miller: — — Cobost — — gracilis Doderl. Phyllacanthus australis Ramsay. Gonrocidaris Døderleini Ag. ECHINOIDEA. I. 31 When in the diagnoses of genera given here other features than pedicellariæ and spicules have only been mentioned exceptionally the opinion of course is not that these structures should be suffi- cient for definitive diagnoses. It has already been emphasized above, and I shall here emphasize once more that all features must be thoroughly examined in order to get the mutual relations of the forms established. That I have here only treated the pedicellariæ more thoroughly is a consequence of the fact that neither my material nor my time has permitted me to treat the other features more parti- cularly. The system of the Cidarids cannot get its definitive formulation, until all features have been examined in a greater number of species (or best in all species). What is given here is a provisional classification, which can scarcely be correct throughout, but it has the great advantage of the earlier systems that it is possible to recognise the genera with certainty. Several things, moreover, indicate that the genera, at all events most of them, have here been correctly interpreted. The species referred to the same genus are upon the whole of similar appearance, so that the genera may in most cases be recognised by their habitus alone. Also the distribution seems to become more clear by the grouping given here. — Whether the genera may be grouped in larger divisions — subfamilies — cannot be decided at present. In the structure of the pedicellariæ there seems only to be a single feature that might possibly be of some importance for such a grouping, viz. whether the large globi- ferous pedicellariæ have an end-tooth or not. Whether this feature is of so great importance, can only be decided, when the necessary thorough examinations have been made. 1. Dorocidaris papillata (Leske). PIRVÆEi gs 6; 7080 PI VIET Fi gs 07 33 TO) TAS 27 NDS SE gs 33157135 254 20) 253727. PEK Piøs TA 26037. Main synonyms: C7dars papillata Leske. — hystrix Lamk. —… borealis Dub & Kor. Dorocidaris abyssicola A. Ag. Non: Cødaris affinis Phil. Principal literature: Sv. Nilsson & A. L. Holst: Collectanea Zoologiæ Scandinavicæ. 1817. pin — Duben & Koren: Ofversigt af Skandinaviens Echinodermer. Kgl. Vetensk. Akad. Hand- lingar får år 1844. Stockholm 1846. p. 255. T. IX. 25—30. — M. Sars: Bidrag til Kundskaben om Middelhavets Littoralfauna. 1857. p. 109. Oversigt af Norges Echinodermer. 1861. p.93. — A.Agassiz: Revision of Echini. Part. II. p. 254. Pl. I. etc. «Challenger»-Echinoidea (8). p. 38. «Blake»-Echinoidea (9). p.12. — Wyv. Thomson: Echinoidea of «Porcupine» (395). p- 722. Pl. LIX. 1—13. — Vi GCGanthier: TOOL RR Koehler: 217. p. 113. —" H. Prouho: 327. —R..Rathbun: "336. p. 611. AC. Stewart 379. — FE. A. Verrill: 418. — W. E. Hoyle: Revised List of British Echinoidea. (202). p. 404. — F Jeffr. Bell: Catalogue of British Echinoderms. 1872. p. 139. 69. With regard to the great number of other works in which this species is noticed or more particularly mentioned, reference may be made to Agassiz's Revision of Echini, Bell's Catalogue, and Ludwig (256); there complete lists of synonyms are also given. 32 ECHINOIDEA. I. This species has been so often mentioned and partly carefully described, that I do not think there is any reason to describe it here again; so I shall only make some observations with regard to a few separate features that have not before been described with sufficient exactness, viz. the arran- gement of the tubercles, the pedicellariæ, the spicules, and the structure of the spines. The interambulacral area: Round each areole there are nearest to the edge about 15 small tubercles with distinct articular head, and outside of these a new circle of tubercles a little smaller and situated in the intervals between the inmost ones. Outside of these are found more or fewer small tubercles according to the size of the animal, decreasing in size inward towards the median line of the area and outward towards the adjoining ambulacral area. The tubercles do not reach quite to the median line or to the pore area; a little naked space is left, and this — at all events in larger speci- mens — is furrowed by irregular transverse furrows crossing the median line from one plate to the other as also the line of separation between the ambulacral and the interambulacral area; the latter correspond rather exactly to the lower end of each ambulacral plate. The edges round the highly depressed areoles are high, the plates slope rather abruptly down towards the median line and out- ward towards the pore area (Pl. VI. Fig. 7). The ambulacral area (Pl. VI. Fig. 8). Inside the pores a little tubercle is found on each plate; these tubercles form a fine, regular row down each side of the ambulacral area, as is commonly the case in the Cidarids; the primary series it is here called. Inside of this series still a smaller tubercle is commonly found on each plate, just opposite to the outer one; nearest to the apical area and the peristome the inner tubercle is commonly found only on one side, alternately — but irregularly — to the right and the left, and sometimes there is all the way down only a single series of these secondary tubercles. In young specimens they are only found on the middle part of the area, and only a single series; sometimes the small spines of these tubercles in the median line of the area raise per- pendicularly; generally they lie over or between the bases of the primary ambulacral spines. — It is, no doubt, for want of place that these secondary tubercles appear only in a single series in small individuals and on the narrow actinal and abactinal end of the area in large individuals. It is espe- cially on the base of these spines that the peculiar, gland-like «ampulla» (Pl. VIIL Fig. 14) is found highly developed, which has been more nearly examined by Prouho (327. p: 56) and Hamann (184. p. 28). It is also often much developed on the spines of the apical area. A transverse section of the large spines (the «radioles») (Pl. XI, Figs. 14, 31) shows that in the intervals between the crests the outer layer runs out in short, branched thorns that coalesce and form a coarse reticulation. There is no reason to describe the form of the spines here anew. Although the pedicellariæ of this species have been figured several times, I nevertheless think it necessary to figure and describe them anew. Perrier's figures are neither good nor exact; the same may be said of the figures given by Agassiz (Revision of- Echini. Pl. XXIV) and Koehler (217. Pl. 7) — neither of them give an exact representation of the finer structures that are of systematic importance. Stewart (379) on the other hand has given some excellent figures of the large globi- ferous pedicellariæ, and Wyv. Thomson (395) gives rather good figures of the small globiferous pedi- cellariæ and of the tridentate ones. — I think it unnecessary to give a full description of the pedi- ECHINOIDEA. I. 33 cellariæ, and therefore I only mention the features being of systematic importance; for the rest the zeaderfistrererredt torthestigures (PI VILE E19 27 PE TKS Fi gs 2057 01315201 25 27) At the point of the large globiferous pedicellariæ (Pl. IX, Fig. 3, 5) is found a distinct tooth sepa- rated from the opening on the inside of the blade by a distinct curve; seen from the inside it appears as a long narrow point before the upper edge of the opening. A canal is seen to run through this point, and open on the upper side of the tooth — this canal is the efferent duct from the poison- or mucous gland enclosed by the blade. The inner opening is large, lengthened, most frequently run- ning into a narrow point below. The edge round the opening is more or less thickened, with numerous small teeth and a few large ones placed irregularly. The outside of the blade is highly and irregularly perforated almost to the very point. The stalk of these and of the other pedicellariæ con- sists of a highly irregular, complicated calcareous network, with no conspicuous free points (limb) at the transition between the thick and the thin part. The length of the head is about 1””; the length of the stalk is somewhat different, but generally it is very short, even shorter than the head. They are found especially on the apical area, but also in the interambulacral areas, mostly on the naked spaces. The small globiferous pedicellariæ (Pl. IX. Figs. 13—15, 20) are upon the whole constructed as the large ones; the tooth at the point is considerably smaller, may be very slightly developed. The inner opening is comparatively larger than in the large globiferous pedicellariæ; the lower edge may also here be irregular. They are more long-stalked and upon the whole much more slender than the large ones. They are especially found among the small spines round the radioles and on the peri- stome, but may otherwise be scattered over the whole test. The-tridentate pedicellariæ: (Pl. IX. Figs.: 7,25, 27) are large and slender: the head is; 1—2mm long, the length of the stalk is very differing, but commonly it is considerably longer than the stalk Sy of the large globiferous pedicellariæ. The blades are narrow, straight, and join close together in their whole length, when shut, or are at all events only apart for a very little space below. The edge is somewhat thickened and highly dentate; at the transition between the base and the blade the edge is often very irregularly serrate. The blade is narrow and deep, filled by an irregular network, which is often, in the lower part of the blade, provided with fine teeth; in the outer part of the blade most frequently only cross-beams are found connecting the edges with each other. These pedicellariæ are especially found in the middle of the ambulacral areas towards the mouth. In some individuals they seem to be quite wanting. The spicules of the tube feet (Pl. XI. Fig. 26), as is known from Perrier and Wyv. Thomson, are bow-shaped and rather highly thorny. They are situated in two series in the skin of the tube foot, so as to join each other along one side of the foot — not, however, in a definite line, the ends catching irregularly in between each other. On the other side they are widely scattered; thus the tube- foot is closely mailed for 3/, or >/, of.its circumference, the other part is naked (Pl. VIII. Fig. 1) The naked side seems always to be the oral one; in this side the tentacle-nerve is lying, as shown by Prouho (op. cit.). Otherwise he also gives a quite correct description of the way in which the spi- cules are arranged in the tube-feet. — Down towards the base of the tube-foot the spicules become shorter and less thorny, and here they do not join on either side, and are thus arranged in two com- The Ingolf-Expedition. IV. IL 5 34 ECHINOIDEA. I. pletely separated series. Towards the sucking disk they become larger and more thorny, at last highly complicate; the arcuate ground-form may, however, always be distinguished. They may here join on both sides, so that the foot is completely mailed. Together with Agassiz, Ludwig, Koehler, Bell, a.o. I think it unquestionable that the Mediterranean form C. 4ystrix Lamk. is identical with this species. The only definite character found by Philippi and Sars for distinguishing between this latter and /D. papillata is the fact that in the latter there are 16—18 raised, dentate, longitudinal ridges on the spines, in C. %ystrix only about 12. As, however, in the same individual, as well of the northern form as of the Mediterranean one, some spines may be found with 12—13 ridges, and others with 16—17 such, this character is useless. It may be possible that the spines in the Mediterranean form are somewhat longer and slenderer than in the northern form; the tridentate pedicellariæ seem also to be somewhat more dentate in the edge than those of the northern form. I think that it may at most be regarded as an only little marked variety of /D. paptllata. Dorocidaris abyssicola Ag. has by Agassiz himself been referred to DD. paprillata as a synonym; whether it may possibly be kept as a separate species, or at least a variety I am not able to decide from my material (one specimen from U.S. Fish Comm., and one from Mus. Comp. Zool.); it might, however, seem as if the small globiferous pedicellariæ might yield a character tending this way (Pl. IX. Fig. 14). — In «Revision of Echini» p. 256 Agassiz mentions a variety of Doroc. papillata with slender, highly dentate spines. Also Rathbun (op. cit. p. 611) mentions this variety. Our museum has received some specimens of this form from U.S. National Museum. A closer examination shows that it has nothing to do with /D. paprllala, it is Cidaris affinis, or a variety of this species. Dorocidaris papillata is spread over the northern Atlantic and the Mediterranean; for the present it cannot be said how far south it reaches, nor can it be decided to how great a depth it is found. As there has proved to be a great uncertainty in the earlier determinations of Cidarids, and as especially a widely different species, even from a quite different genus, viz. C/daris affinis, has gene- rally been confounded with /D. paprllata, all the statements in literature as to its occurrence are not to be relied on with certainty. Only so much may be said of its distribution in the Atlantic that it is found along the coasts of Norway on depths from 100—200 fathoms, at the Shetland Islands, but not farther south in the North Sea, south of Iceland («Ingolf»), at the Atlantic coasts of Great Britain, and pre- sumably at the coasts over the whole of the North Atlantic, as well at the European side as at the American side (Florida). On the other hand it is not found in the territories of the North Atlantic where the bottom temperature is negative (the «cold area»). In Bell”s Catalogue the depth is given to from 0—874 fathoms. This is scarcely correct; it seems to be found on no smaller depth than 30—40 fathoms. Wyv. Thomson (op. cit. p. 725) states that he has some small specimens from ca, 1000 fathoms. ./D. papillata is no abyssal form, it seems mostly to be found at a depth of some hundreds of fathoms. Its having pelagic larvæ of the typical P/wleus-form seems also to agree with the fact that it does not live on the very great depths. D. papillata has been taken by «Ingolf» on st. 1 (62% 30' N. Lat., 8? 21' W. L., 142 fathoms; bottom temperature 778), I specimen, and st. 54 (63? 08' N. Lat., 15” 40' W. L., 691 fathoms; bottom tempera- ture 4? 2), I specimen. ECHINOIDEA. I. 35 The statements that it has been taken in the Red Sea (Russo 348), at the Canaries, the West Indies, St. Paul, La Plata, and even at the Philippines, it will be best for the present to leave out of consideration, until a renewed examination of the material from these localities has been made. The statement that it is found at the Philippines, is made by Agassiz (Chall. Ech.); but he has himself expressed a doubt as to the correctness of the determination — and with good reason. I have in British Museum had occasion to examine the two specimens from the Philippines (Chall. sts. 204 and 210), and have found the one from st. 204 to be a C7-daris sp., and that from st. 210 a SZereocidaris sp. (I could not enter into a determination of the species.) The statement by Studer (386) that it has been taken at the Cape Verd Islands, must no doubt apply to Czdarrs affinis, he remarks that the small spines were of a scarlet colour, which agrees with C. a//7mis, but not with /D. paprllata. I am also fortunate enough to be able to correct the statement by Russo that it is found in the Red Sea, as Prof. Monticelli has sent me the specimens for examination — they are C/daris baculosa. 2... Cidaris affinis Phil. Pl. I. Fig. I. Pl. VI. Figs. 9—10. Pl. VIII. Fig. 2. Pl. ITX, Figs. 1, $—9, I1—I12, 17—19, 21—24. Pl. XI. Figs. I, 22. Synonym: C7daris Stokesiv L. Ag. & Desor. Dorocidaris neapolitana? Ramsay 331. A. Philippi: Beschreibung einiger neuen Echinodermen nebst kritischen Bemerkungen tuber einige weniger bekannte Arten. Arch. f. Naturgesch. 1845. I. p. 351. — L. Agassiz & E.Desor: Cata- logue raisonné des familles, des genres et des espéces de la Classe des Echinodermes. Ann. Sc. natu- relles. 3 Sér. VI—VIII. 1846—47. — M.Sars: Middelhavets Littoral-Fauna. p. 110. — Wyv. Thom- son: Echinoids of «Porcupine» (395). p. 726. PI. LX. ”Es ist mir unbegreiflich, dass man nicht schon långst die C. affzærs von der C. hystrix unter- schieden hat, da sie sich auf den ersten Blick durch dunkler rother Fårbung und kurzere, spitzere und rauhere Stacheln auszeichnet — und bei Neapel gar nicht so sehr selten ist», says Philippi (op. cit. p. 352). It is still more inconceivable that later authors (Agassiz, Ludwig, Bell, a.0.) have reunited the two species. Wyv. Thomson himself is somewhat in doubt whether C. z//7mis is really speci- fically different from Poroc. papillata. By a thorough examination it is seen that they are not only two well separated species, but that they even belong to two different genera. C. affimis is to be referred to the genus C-darrs s. str., its nearest relations being C. Rerni Dåderl., metularia Lamk. Thouarsi Val. etc. — Although the northern boundary of this species is scarcely found so far north that it occurs in the territory the Echinid-fauna of which is treated in the present work, I nevertheless think it necessary to give a careful description of it, partly to prove my assertion that it has nothing to do with /oroc. papillata, but especially to prevent the two species being intermingled in future, as they have been so long, to the great injury of the study of the geographical distribution of these species. In the description those features are especially emphasized, in which it differs from D. papillata. In the form of the test, the breadth of the ambulacral and the interambulacral areas, the number of ambulacral plates for each interambulacral plate (10—12), there is scarcely any difference of importance between this species and /D. paprwllata. The interambulacral plates (Pl. VI. Fig. 10) are here É 36 - ECHINOIDEA. I. more closely covered with tubercles; there are ca. 15 on the edge of each areole, and outside of these there is a circle of tubercles opposite to the intervals of those of the first circle. Outside of these again several tubercles are found, more or less circularly arranged, so that the whole plate is covered, with the exception of a quite narrow stripe at the median line, — and on the lower part of the test it is also covered by the tubercles. No furrows in the edge of the plates. In the depth of the areoles there seems to be no distinct difference between the two forms. The ambulacral area is more peculiar (Pl. VI. Fig. 9); the secondary tubercles lie here in the lower edge of the plate, so that they are situated opposite to the intervals between the primary ones (in /. paprllata they, as described above, are placed in the middle of the ambulacral plates, opposite to the primary tubercles). The whole form of the ambulacral plates is consequently somewhat dif- ferent from that of /0. papwllata. Only on the very uppermost and lowermost plates of the area the secondary tubercles are wanting; in the middle part of the area inside the secondary series some tubercles are found still a little smaller (the secondary tubercles are somewhat smaller than the primary ones), placed opposite to the intervals between the secondary tubercles, and consequently opposite to the primary ones, not, however, very regularly. — The pore area is a little more than half the breadth of the interjacent space, comparatively a little broader than in /D, papi/lata, scarcely, however, of any great importance. The spines 1—1'/, time the diameter of the test (in /D. paprllata ca. 2—2:/, times); they are evenly tapering, and end bluntly. About 18 longitudinal series of coarse serrations. Between these longitudinal series fine, slightly branched thorns are found, which do not coalesce and form a reticu- lation as in /). papillata (transverse section Pl. XI, Fig. 1). The radioles round the mouth are short, blunt, somewhat flat, without any dents in the edge, what they commonly have in /D. papillata. As in this latter an «ampulla» is found at the base of the small spines, especially well developed at those of the apical area. There seems to be no difference of any importance in the form of the small spines of the two species. The pedicellariæ are of the structure characteristic of the genus C/daris. The large globiferous pedicellariæ (Pl. IX. Figs.9, 22, 24): the mouth is situated quite at the top of the blade which is round and somewhat bent inward; it is surrounded by a limb that is a little bent outward and provided with rather large teeth the number and size of which is rather irregular. The upper end of the mouth has no limb nor any teeth; no end-tooth. The edge of the blade towards the point irregularly dentate. — At the transition between the broad and the narrow part of the stalk a limb is found of freely pro- jecting, short calcareous ridges, prolongations of the rind-layer of the thick part of the stalk (PI. IX. Fig. 12). This limb is most developed on the large globiferous pedicellariæ, but may also be rather distinct on the small pedicellariæ and the tridentate ones. The whole stalk is far more regularly constructed than in /D. papr/llata: here the outer layer consists of smooth longitudinal ridges with small knob-like swellings, in /D. papillata it is an extremely irregular, more or less spinous reticulation. — Size: the head ca. O7mm, the stalk ca. 2mm hut especially the latter is rather varying. The small globiferous pedicellariæ are of a quite different structure (Pl. TX. Figs: 8, TI); they have a distinet end-tooth, and the mouth is large and situated a little below the point. The back-side of the blade is almost without the common holes in the lime, only the basal part is perforated as ECHINOIDEA. I. 37 usual. — The tridentate pedicellariæ are a good deal smaller, but more long-stalked than in /D. papr/- lata; the head ca. o:5rm the stalk ca. 17% or a little more (Pl. TX. Figs: 1, 18, 19, 21, 23). The blade is somewhat slenderer, and when the pedicellaria is shut there is a wide open space between the blades below; they join only in the point — scarcely the outer half of the blade — and this part of the blade is then obliquely cut off, while in /. paprllata the whole edge of the blade forms a chiefly straight line. For the rest the construction of the blade is far more simple and less complicate than in /D. paprllata; the edge is finely indented, and only a few smooth beams cross the cavity of the blade. It is a curious fact that tridentate pedicellariæ seem to be wanting in all the (6) specimens of C. affinis from the Mediterranean. On the other hand they are found in large numbers, not only in the ambulacral areas, but all over the test, in 5 specimens from 33? 20' N. Lat. 77? 5' W. L. 90 fathoms (near Florida), which our museum has received from U. 5. Fish Commission (Smiths. Inst.) under the name of orocidaris papillata, var. In return the large globiferous pedicellariæ are extremely few in these specimens. Otherwise there seems to be no other difference of importance between these speci- mens and those from the Mediterranean. To be sure the spines (Pl. VIII, Fig. 2) are comparatively a little longer in the specimens from Florida, but as these are only half so large as the specimens from the Mediterranean, it may be taken to be a difference of age. To judge from the material in hand I must, at all events, regard them as being the same species, while I do not venture to decide, whether a distinction may be made between a Mediterranean variety and an Atlantic one. The spicules of the tube-feet are arranged as in /D. papillata. They are upon the whole a little more spinulous than in this latter, but the difference is extremely slight (Pl. XI. Fig. 22). The diameter of the test of the largest specimen 38mm, the longest spine 54rm, The colour of this species, as has been observed by all the authors that have taken it to be a separate species, is lively red; the spines are brownish, with darker and lighter bands. The colour keeps rather well in spirit, sometimes excellently, as in the specimen figured on PI.I. Fig. 1. «As color forms such an unimportant feature in the specific characters of Echini, much stress cannot be laid upon this point», says Agassiz. («Revision» p. 255.) Here, no doubt, it is of some importance, as upon the whole the colour may be an excellent guide for distinguishing the species, for instance of Æchinus. Among the other C7darrs-species C. Rezmi Dåderl. seems to be the nearest relation of C. o//imis; they have both of them slender spines and a little limb on the stalk of the pedicellariæ. There seems to be no important difference in the form of the pedicellariæ in the genus C7dørs; it will scarcely be possible to distinguish the species with certainty by means of the pedicellariæ, but there seems also to be characters enough to be got from other features. The spines especially show a rather great richness in forms in this genus. Accordingly Cødaris affinis will have to be added to the not few Echinids, found both in the Mediterranean and at the eastern coast of America. As to its distribution in other places only little can be said, as it has been intermingled with /D, papr/lata. No doubt it will be found at the Atlantic coast of Southern Europe, and, as has been observed above, Studer's statement (386) of D. paprllata being found at the Cape Verd Islands must surely apply to C. affinis. That it will also be found at the Azores, may be said with some certainty. It seems to be a more littoral form than 0. papr/lata; 38 ECHINOIDEA. I. Sars has it from 50—100 fathoms; the specimens taken by Dr. H. I. Hansen at Syracuse are from 20—30 fathoms. The form mentioned from Florida is stated by Rathbun (336 p. 611) to be from 25—426 fathoms. 3. Stereocidaris ingolfiana n. sp. PISVIS Figs 15,771 PISVITT SFi gs 4,10; 17 76,110 27, 023, 267 28,030; 30. PI SE EF gs 12176 77222830) 3233] Pl. XVI. Fig. I. Diameter Height Diam. of the peristome Diam. of the apical area Longest spines 35 mm. 27 mm. I4 mm. I5 mm. 32 — 29 — I2 — I3 — 65 mm. 28 — I7 — IO'5 — 105 — 48 — B. —— 20 — IO — I3 —— 62 — SEE 18 — VE 125 ER AT DÅ == GS =— g == må == SOE I6 — IO — 65 — 8 — SoRE— ME 65= Åbn SVIE 26555 As will be seen from the given measures the height of the test is rather varying. Nevertheless the form is upon the whole very characteristic (Pl. VI. Fig. 3). It is broader above than below; the upper side is generally very flat, and there is, about the middle of the first fully developed interambu- lacral plate, a rather steep bending from the upper side to the almost perpendicular, below slightly imward bent sides. Below at the edge of the peristome a rather abrupt bending is likewise found; the two lowermost interambulacral plates are situated almost horizontally. The interambulacral areas are 3!/,—4 times as broad as the ambulacral areas; they consist of 5—7 plates. The areoles are deep, the edge round them raised, with a single circle of 15—16 more conspicuous tubercles; in large specimens these are more indistinct. The other part of the plates is closely set with very small tubercles, which are in the larger specimens rather distinctly arranged in irregular transverse rows; in smaller specimens this arrangement is not distinct. Even at the median line where the plates join, a narrow naked stripe is scarcely seen, in the largest specimen not at all. The plates sink somewhat down towards the median line and outward towards the pore area. Even the lowermost areoles are separated by a rather broad space with distinct tubercles (Pl. XVI. Fig. 1). The ambulacral areas: There are 10—12 ambulacral plates for each interambulacral plate. The pore area is half so broad as the middle part of the ambulacral area. The pores are only sepa- rated by a narrow partition-wall; the outer pore is a little smaller. (In /. papillata and C. affinis the pores are of equal size; in the latter there is a rather broad partition-wall between them);). The pri- mary series of tubercles is only little conspicuous; besides the primary tubercle about 3—5 small tubercles are found on each ambulacral plate, so that there is no trace of naked intervals; the whole area between the series of pores therefore appears as a densely granulous stripe in which the bound- aries between the separate plates are only seen with difficulty (Pl. VI. Fig. 11). The plates of the peristome are set with numerous small tubercles, but only on the free edge. — The apical area (Pl. VI. Fig. 4) is, as the other part of the test, closely set with small tubercles. The genital openings are rather large, the ocular plates are widely separated from the periproct, which is covered by smaller plates rather regularly arranged. 7) The figures (Pl. VI. Figs. 8, 9, 11) do not show this feature clearly. ECHINOIDEA. I. 39 In a quite young specimen, of a diameter of 7mm, with only 4—5 interambulacral plates, as yet almost no small tubercles (and spines) are found, excepting the primary series in the ambulacral areas, and the circle round the areoles (which are not yet deepened). Nevertheless no naked spots are seen on the test — there is no space for more tubercles. The apical area is closely set with small tubercles. There are as yet only 5 plates in the periproct, in the corners between the genital plates (which have not yet any genital opening). Round the anal opening there is a circle of small tubercles. The spines are highly characteristic (Pl. VI. Figs. 1—2. Pl. VIII. Fig. 10). Most frequently they have a wing-shaped crest on the side turned upwards; sometimes 2—3 crests are found, sometimes none at all. Specimens are found, in which almost all the large spimes are provided with wings, and other specimens, in which only a few spines or none at all have such crests. The more developed the crest is, the more compressed is the spine, to the very point. Where the crest is wanting, the spines are almost round and rather evenly tapering. There is a somewhat different number (10—16) of projecting longitudinal ridges with rather distinct thorns or dents. In young individuals (and spines) these ridges are more conspicuous, and they are here almost similarly developed, the thorns only a little more conspicuous in one of the ridges. Then the thorns of this ridge increase inordinately in size, and coalesce more and more from the base outward —- and thus the crest is formed (Pl. XI. Figs. 17, 30, 32). Moreover the whole spine, the ridges (especially the crest), and the intervals are closely covered with delicate, obliquely situated «hairs», the points of which are directed upward or outward (on the thorns). In dried specimens the spines are somewhat shaggy, and have a whitish tint from the air that is found between the hairs as in the hairy coat of a plant. In old spines this tint is not distinctly seen, but in young spines it may be very beautiful. In transverse sections of the spines (Pl. XI. Fig. 33) these hairs are seen to form a thick, complicated network on the outside of the outer layer of the spines. — The large spines are almost always turned directly to the side, so that the animal gets a peculiar flat appearance recalling a wheel (Pl. VI. Figs. 1—2). The spines round the mouth are flat, and have most frequently distinct, sharp dents in the edge. The secondary spines are exceedingly numerous, and give the animal an almost shaggy appear- ance. Round the radioles a single circle of larger flat spines, of a length of 2:/,—3rm, of the common form is found. In the primary series in the ambulacral areas the spines are somewhat narrower and only about half the length of those round the radioles, scarcely 27”, the other small spines are still much smaller, ca. "/,—1mm, They are mot distinctly compressed, and are not strongly pressed against the test, as is otherwise generally the case in the Cidarids. The spines round the radioles and those of the outer series of the ambulacral areas are often a little bent at the point and hollowed on the upper surface (Pl. VIII. Fig. 19), which is especially the case with the ambulacral spines nearest to the peristome. The spines of the peristome are generally somewhat widened at the point, and have, as it were, an indication of bisection, a thinner stripe being found downward from the middle of the point (Pl. VIIL Fig. 20). There is no «ampulla» at the base of the spines, at most a slight indication of such a one. The pedicellariæ: The large globiferous pedicellariæ (Pl. VIII. Figs. 11, 16, 29) recall very much those of DD. papillata, but by a closer examination they show no slight difference. There is no 40 ECHINOIDEA. I. unpaired tooth at the point. The mouth is large, broad below, more marrow above; it reaches to the very point. The edge is set with small teeth, the upper one on each side somewhat more distinct, sometimes much larger than the others (Pl. VIII. Fig. 26). These two uppermost teeth may be bent towards each other and coalesced towards the point, so that a little opening appears on the upper side of this apparently unpaired end-tooth, and when this is the case the resemblance to the pedicel- lariæ of /D. papillata is considerable; but here, however, is never found the rather long, closed part below the end-tooth, which is found in /D. paprllata. The lower limit of the mouth generally forms a fine, regular curve. In a couple of specimens the point of the large globiferous pedicellariæ showed a deviating, but very irregular construction, which was much more like that in /D. paprllata. As these individuals otherwise agree exactly with the others, this deviation must be taken to be abnormal. It is a very conspicuous peculiarity in the large globiferous pedicellariæ of this species that the back- side is quite clear without holes all over the outer part of the blade; in /D. paprllata the back-side is highly perforated and of a very complicate construction to the very mouth. — Length of the head ca. Imm the stalk often a little shorter. The structure of the stalk as in D. papillata. The small globiferous pedicellariæ are upon the whole of the same construction as the large ones (Pl. VIII. Figs. 28, 30, 36); the uppermost pair of teeth may also here be coalesced at the points (Pl. VIII. Fig. 23). I have not been able to find tridentate pedicellariæ in any of the specimens in hand. The spicules of the tube-feet (Pl. XI. Fig. 28) are very characteristic, and yield an excellent mark by which this species may be distinguished from the other Atlantic Cidarids. They are small fenestrated plates placed in two separated longitudinal series; they do not join on either side, such as is the case in /D. papwllata and Cwdaris affinis. They are most developed on the tube feet below at the peristome, in the upper ones they are more simple and more like the common Cidarid-spicules. In quite small individuals they are often only much branched, not yet perforated plates. Upon the whole they are comparatively smaller than in /D. paprllata; they are slightly arched corresponding to the form of the foot, and are as usual situated transversely on the longitudinal axis of the foot. In the intestine, the genital organs, and the organs of Stewart numerous spicules are found; those of the intestine have three rays, the others are larger, irregular plates (Pl. XI. Figs. 12, 16, 23). The dental apparatus shows no marked peculiarities. The auricles are rather high and narrow; on the ambulacral areas small and fine processes are found. (In /D. papillata and C. affinis are likewise found rather well developed ambulacral processes. (Comp. Duncan 129). (Pl. VI. Figs. 5—6.) In some of the specimens the lower part of the spines is slightly reddish; otherwise this species appears to have no marked colour. The preserved specimens are brownish. Ingolf» St. 9. (64? 18' N. Lat. 27?0' W.L. 295 fathoms. Bottom temperature 6? 2). 16 specimens. — — 16. (6532801 2yS' 05] == 20 — OA) ERR — — — 81. (61944' — 27217 .— 485. — — SST): 2 — SST ØRN GR = 494). 4 = — ESS (023 22 RE 2 SS 2 TET 70 — )SSeNer — — — 89 (GA AS 1 27 20 TE To — OS) ET = 97 (652 7 so Es — 57) ECR Further we have 5 specimens from the Denmark Strait (64? 42' N. Lat., 27? 43' W. L., 426 fathoms) obtained in 1889 by Wandel. ECHINOIDEA. I. AT One more locality may be added for this species, viz. «Albatross» 1885, st. 2415, near Florida (307 44' N. Lat., 79? 26' W. L., 440 fathoms) as, according to what has been mentioned above, a specimen received from U.S. National Museum under the name of Porocidaris Sharreri has proved to be iden- tical with the species described here. I suppose that it has oftener been confounded with other Cidarids. At present, however, it is only known with certainty from the stations enumerated here: on the ridge south of Iceland, between Iceland and Greenland towards the ridge here separating the Atlantic from the Polar basin, and at Florida. The depth is 170—633 fathoms; accordingly it seems to be no genuine deep-sea form either. Recent species of the genus SZereocidaris have first been described from Japan by Dåderlein (Die japanischen Seeigel. 116); a species of the same genus, SZ. zædica Dåderl. (118) has later been taken by «Valdivia» in the Indian Ocean in many places and in many varieties, of which a couple, to judge from the preliminary description, seem to be so very like SZ. zmgolfiana, that it will be difficult to distinguish between them; but Prof. Dåderlein, to whom I have sent a specimen of.XYZ, zzgo/lfrana for examination, has informed me that he thinks the two species to be good ones. With the species described here the occurrence of the genus also in the Atlantic is proved; this genus thus appears to be cosmopolitan. 4... Porocidaris purpurata Wyv. Thomson. PIEVI Fig re. PEVETE Fig 2 PEST ØS IIS PN SL EP GS IS 2T: Synonym: Forocidaris gractlis Sladen. Wyv. Thomson: Echinoidea of «Porcupine» (395) p. 728. Pl. LIX. & LXI. 14—15. — Bell: Catalogue (73) p: 141. — Hoyle: 202. p. 405. — Sladen: 367. With regard to this easily distinguished species I have only little to add to the excellent description by Wyv. Thomson. The ambulacral areas: Inside the outer, primary series of tubercles a somewhat smaller tubercle is found in the lower corner of each plate, and moreover a quite small tubercle below the primary one, which accordingly does not fill up the whole breadth of the plate. There is, however, some irregularity; one or the other of the small tubercles are not rarely wanting, sometimes both of them. Also the pores are different from those of the other Cidarids mentioned here, as will be seen by a comparison of the figures (Pl. VI. Figs. 8—9, 11—12). The spicules are arranged in the tube feet as in /. paprllata; the two series, however, do not always join closely, naked spaces are often seen between them, in which only a few spicules are joining. They are somewhat complicated, the thorns on the outer side coalescing and forming a more or less distinct net of meshes (Pl. XI. Fig. 21). Of the very characteristic two-valved pedicellariæ Wyv. Thomson (op. cit. p. 729) says: »Their structure is in every way the same as that of the ordinary three-valved pedicellariæ, except in the number of the valves. Ail the usual chambers and ridges are developed, and the different muscles are very evident through the transparent walls». In this statement I do not agree with Wyv. Thomson. These pedicellariæ are highly different in structure from common tridentate pedicellariæ, with which they must most nearly be compared (Pl. X. Fig. 1, 2, 5). They have no apophysis; the whole The Ingolf-Expedition. IV. 1. 6 42 ECHINOIDEA. I. basal part is an undivided cavity in accordance with the fact that muscles are only running in one direction between the two valves. (In the common three-valved pedicellariæ muscles, as is well known, run in two diverging directions from each valve, and the apophysis may be taken to serve chiefly for the attaching of these muscles). The structure of the stalk is as in /D. paprllata. Other kinds of pedi- cellariæ do not appear to be found in this species (genus). The spines have no «hair»-covering on the outer layer, as was the case in the three preceding species; but the outer layer itself is beautifully and regularly striped longitudinally, and is in trans- verse sections seen to be divided into areas, one area for each raised ridge. The more conspicuous ridges are formed by two parts of equal height, joined almost to the point (Pl. XI. Fig. 3). «Ingolf», st. 73 (62? 58' N. Lat. 23”? 28' W. L. 486 fathoms. Bottom temperature 5? I). 3 specimens. Hitherto the species was only known from the Far&e Channel, from 530—542 fathoms. The smallest of the specimens in hand (diam. lor», height 7mm, longest spine 27mm) agrees exactly with the description of Porocidaris gracilis Sladen (op. cit.). The form is the same; the radioles are not separated, only one tubercle on each ambulacral plate, no openings in the genital plates — as in 2. gracilis; only the colour is more light (bleached) than in Sladen's specimen. There can be no doubt, however, that it is a young 2. purpurata, and P. gracilis Sladen must then, as supposed by Bell (op. cit. p. 142) be taken to be synonymous with 2. purpurata. It is especially by the spines that the young 2. purpurata differs from the grown one. In Sladen's specimen they were «finely striated longitudinally, the ridges being very slightly prominent and marked with very faint and indistinct serrations». In the specimen in hand, which is a smaller one, the spines are very different between themselves, some are provided with rather highly serrate longitudinal ribs, others are densely covered with coarse thorns, without any trace of longitudinal ribs; a couple are only faintly serrated, and a single one of the uppermost ones is completely smooth, quite as in the grown 2, purpurata. Also in the grown one the lower radioles are rather distinctly serrated, while the upper ones, with the exception of a few coarse thorns, only are finely striated longitudi- nally. The radioles round the mouth are serrated as in the grown one, only, however, with 1—2 teeth on either side. Sladen's specimen was taken S. W. of Ireland on 51? 1' N. Lat., 11? 50' W. L., 750 fathoms. Table of the Cidarids oeceurring in the northern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. 1. Pedicellariæ 2-valved; the spines with highly developed neck .... FPorocidaris purpurata W. Th. — s-valvedstthelspneskwitheshortene eee rer 2l FS The globiferous pedicellariæ, as well the large as the small ones, with an unpaired tooth at the point of the blade; the mouth does not reach to the point of the blade, and is most frequently irre- gularly limited below. The spicules formed as spinous arcs..... Dorocidaris papillata (Leske). The large globiferous pedicellariæ withouth end-tooth; the mouth reaches to the point of the blade, and is regularly limited below. (Sometimes an unpaired end-tooth may apparently be ECHINOIDEA. I. 43 found on the large pedicellariæ; when this is the case, the spi- cules (fenestrated plates) will show that it is no Porocidaris).….… 3 3. The large globiferous pedicellariæ with large mouth; the blade not prolonged. The stalk has no limb of projecting calcareous ridges. The small pedicellariæ without end-tooth. The spicules fenestrated Plate EET SNE Jzereoctdaris ingolfiana Mitsn. The large globiferous pedicellariæ with a little mouth at the end of the somewhat prolonged blade. The stalk with a limb of projecting calcareous ridges. The small globiferous pedicellariæ witiutend took rherspiculess pin us Ares ER Cidaris affinis Phil. Fam. Echinothuridæ. The classification of the Echinothurids is distinguished by a pleasing simplicity; only three recent genera are known, Phormosoma, AÅsthenosoma and Sperosoma, and, what is still more pleasing, there are only two synonyms of these names, viz. Calveria W.Th., and Cyanosoma Sarasin. To the genus Phormosoma 10 species have been referred, to ÅAsZhenosoma 11, and to Søerosoma 2 species, most of which species have been described by A. Agassiz, the rest by Wyv. Thomson, Koehler, Dåder- lein, and Yoshiwara, all during the last three decades. Here, then, we seem to have a division of Echinids where the classification is in the best possible order. — The joy, unfortunately! does not last longer than until the moment when one has to determine Echinothurids oneself. Then one will soon reecho the complaint of Sarasin: «Wir wissen nicht, warum es A. Agassiz seinen Lesern so sehr sauer gemacht hat sich in seinen Challenger Echiniden zurecht zu finden. Um einen Echinothuriden daraus zu bestimmen ist es nåtig die bei den einzelnen Arten gemachten Angaben sorgfåltig zu ana- lysieren, unter Rubriken zu ordnen und dann die Bestimmung zu versuchen» (352. p. 96). We might, however, let that pass, if all the difficulties were to be superseded in this way; but this, unfortunately, is not the case, as it will soon appear that the two large genera, Phormosoma and Åsthenosoma, are in reality not to be distinguished from each other with certainty. The chief difference between these genera is stated to be the fact that in Phormosoma the plates overlap each other in the whole length of the edge, while in Aszhenosoma the plates are narrower in the middle, so that naked interspaces are left only covered by the skin; only the broader ends of the plates overlap each other in the way peculiar for the Echinothurids. Now there is, however, the drawback by this statement that the arrangement of the plates is generally only to be seen in dried specimens. But the Echinothurids are only very little adapted for preservation in dried state, and if the material in hand be slight, one does not like to destroy it for the sake of determina- tion. And even if the material is copious enough, so that it is possible to examine the plates exactly, we are by no means sure to arrive at a result. Bell (72) has shown that there is a considerable varia- tion as to the size of the uncalcified membranous space between the plates: «this may be quite conspi- cuous or calcification may have gone so far, that it is difficult to detect the membranous interspace. — 67 44. ECHINOIDEA. I. From the specimens before me I am compelled to conclude, that the amount of calcification of the plates is a point in which individuals living together may differ among themselves». As another important difference between the two genera Wyv. Thomson (395) emphasizes the fact that in Pxormosoma the actinal side is very different from the abactinal side, while in Ca/verra (which is, according to Agassiz, synonymous with AÅsZ4enosoma) both sides are rather equal. This character was excellent, as long as. only the species described by Wyv. Thomson were known; but it could not hold good with regard to the large number of new species brought to light by the «Challenger»-Expedition. Agassiz has also several times declared, although only in an indirect way, that the two genera cannot in reality be kept distinct. In the «Challenger» Echinids (p.87) he says of young specimens of ÅAsZhenosoma pellucidum that they show «how close is the relationship between the genera -hormosoma and Asthenosoma in spite of the apparently great structural differences existing between the adult of such species as AÅsZhenosoma Gruber and Phormosoma luculentum. It is mainly from the comparatively larger number of coronal plates in the former genus, that the young of the two genera can be satisfactorily distinguished, the other characteristic features, the lapping of the plates appearing only in larger specimens». Of Prormosoma panamense Agassiz says (13. p. 77) that it has «on the actinal side the characters of Phormosoma most decidedly developed, while on the abac- timal side the great elongation of the ambulacral plates and the arrangement of the coronal plates resemble the structural features of Åszhenosoma». Thus we have no fully reliable characters for the two mentioned genera. We have then to choose between two alternatives: to make the whole one genus, or to search for better characters. The first alternative is only a confession of incompetency; we must try the second. — It is beforehand probable that good characters must be found, as these animals show so rich a variety of interesting structures. The examinations have also in ample measure borne out the anticipations of finding good characters. The arrangement of the tube feet, the structure of the spines, the spicules, and above all the pedicellariæ, yield most excellent characters, as well with regard to genera as to species. The old genera Phormosoma and Asthenosoma prove to be highly heterogeneous; several new genera will have to be established. Besides the rich material of the «Ingolf»-Expedition, and what was previously found in our museum, I have examined the type specimens of all the new species from «Challenger» described by Agassiz, to which species Prof. Bell most liberaily granted me admission during my stay at British Museum. Further Prof. Pfeffer has kindly sent me a couple of specimens of Åszhenosoma varium Grube for examination. Accordingly my examinations rest on a very broad base; with the exception of Phormosoma hispidum, panamense, Asthenosoma longispinum, Iyamat, and Sperosoma biseriatum, I have examined all known species, and of almost all of them the type specimens. As already mentioned, it is the spines, the pedicellariæ, the tube feet, and the spicules, which bear the principal part in the new classification of the Echinothurids that is the result of these researches. Of course also the structure of the test is always of importance; but the all-predominant importance that has hitherto been attached to the form and mutual relation of the plates, will have to be very much reduced. In most Echinothurids the primary spines on the actinal side are provided with a peculiar, hoof-shaped terminal cap, of a structure different from that of the other part of the ECHINOIDEA.. I. 45 spine; it is very large and conspicuous in some species, as 2%. hoplacantha, Sperosoma Grimaldii a. 0. small in Åszhenosoma Gruber, hystrix a.0. These spines are always (?) more or less curved. — In a group of species: Phormosoma placenta, bursarium, and rigidum (a.0.?) the primary spines of the actinal side are surrounded by a bag of skin, and their points are swollen in a club-shaped way. In AÅsthenosoma Gruber, varium, heteractis, and urens the spines on the abactinal side, primary and secondary ones, are inclosed by a thick cutaneous sheath which is constricted one or several times; also in other Echino- thurids, for instance A. hysætrix, small bags of skin are seen at the point of the small spines. These spines are distinctly distinguished from the mentioned skin-covered spines in 2%. p/acenta, bursartum, and 779/dum by being constructed as usual — simple perforated tubes with a long, fine point, while in 24. placenta etc. they are swollen at the point, and filled by an irregular calcareous net of meshes. The tube feet may be arranged in an almost straight line on the actinal side, as in Pz. p/a- centa, or they may be trigeminous, about as in an Æc/znus, as for instance in A. hystrix, or they may be arranged in three widely separated series, as in Søerosoma. In some there is no trace of a sucking disk on the tube feet of the actinal side, in others there is a well-developed disk; on the abactinal side a sucking disk is never found. The spicules are almost always rather large, irregular, fenestrated plates situated more or less distinetly in 3—4 longitudinal series. In A. varæum, Gruber, heteractis, and wrens they are very slightly developed, only small, branched calcareous pieces, rarely with a hole. — The sphæridiæ, which follow the tube feet quite up on the abactinal side, show no differences so great that they can be of any systematic importance. The pedicellariæ, on the other hand, are of the greatest importance with regard to the classification. No less than 5 different kinds of pedicellariæ are found in the Echinothurids, viz. the four kinds known from the Echinids, and further the very beautiful form, described by Wyv. Thomson in A. Zenestratum, the tetradactylous pedicellariæ. Only the tridentate and the triphyllous pedicel- lariæ are found in all Echinothurids, each of the other kinds are only found in a single genus. — The tetradactylous pedicellariæ have been so excellently described and figured by Wyv. Thomson, that I need not add anything. Globiferous pedicellariæ were hitherto unknown in the Echinothurids; I have found them in A. pe//ucidum (im one of the type specimens from Chall. st. 192; the other speci- mens I have not seen). They are highly primitive; the skeleton consists of three simple rods, a little widened below. No muscles seem to pass between them, which corresponds very well with the fact that the three glandular bags are quite inclosed by a common skin; the pedicellaria cannot be opened as other pedicellariæ. The valves have only half the length of the head, and they are placed between the glandular bags (Pl. XIII. Fig. 24). There can scarcely be any doubt that this interesting form of pedicellariæ is to be interpreted as a very primitive globiferous pedicellaria. Neither were ophicephalous pedicellariæ hitherto known in the Echinothurids. The form of pedicellariæ figured and described by Wyv. Thomson as ophicephalous pedicellariæ, is indisputably the triphyllous pedicellariæ, very similar to the triphyllous pedicellariæ of the Echinids, only some- what larger. Genuine ophicephalous pedicellariæ I have only found in the new form 7%0m7kosoma Koehleri, described here. They are very characteristic, the blade is highly constricted just above the basal part, and abruptly widened above (Pl. XIV. Figs. 19, 23, 25). The somewhat contorted arc on the lower side of each valve, so characteristic of the ophicephalous pedicellariæ, is here typically developed, 46 ECHINOIDEA. I. so that there can be no doubt that it is a genuine ophicephalous pedicellaria. It is a highly curious fact that each of these three kinds of pedicellariæ, two of which show a very perfect development, are only found in a single genus, while none of the other Echinothurids seem to have a corresponding form of pedicellariæ. The tridentate pedicellariæ are very richly developed in the Echinothurids. Most frequently their form is simple; the valves are leaf-shaped, and the blade is more or less filled by a net of meshes which may be very spinous. In another common form the edges of the blade are involuted, so that only the point of the blade is somewhat widened; in this form the blade is commonly strongly bent, so that the valves are widely separated, and only join with their points when the pedicellaria is closed. Both these forms may be found in the same species; and in a group of species, Å. varium and the species most nearly allied to it, even three different kinds of tridentate pedicellariæ are found, viz. besides the two mentioned forms a short, broad one with coarsely serrate edge (Pl. VIII, Figs. 4, 27). A peculiar short and broad form is found in 2%. /uculentum; it recalls to some degree an ophice- phalous pedicellaria, but as it has no indication of an arc, there can scarcely be any question of inter- preting it as any thing else than a form of the tridentate pedicellariæ. The tridentate pedicellariæ may be very large, especially those with involuted edge; these have commonly a very short neck. The triphyllous pedicellariæ (Pl. XII, Pl. XIII. Fig. 23) are very well developed in the Echino- thurids; peculiar to these in comparison with the triphyllous pedicellariæ of the Echinids is the fact that the upper edge of the apophysis spreads over the lower part of the blade, and continues up along its sides; in some, for instance P%. p/acenta, this «cover-plate» is not much developed, in most species it is highly developed, and covers a great part of the blade. Generally there are then some large holes in the median line, and some smaller holes around; the part continuing upward along the lateral edges of the blade, is most frequently without holes. The upper edge of the blade is generally finely serrate. The holes in the blade are always placed in rather regular curves from the middle obliquely upward on either side, — The peculiar bottle-shaped, two-valved pedicellaria, figured by Agassiz from Phormosoma .tenue (Chall. Echinoidea. Pl. XLIV. Fig. 21) is presumably an abnormal form. I have examined a couple of the type specimens, but have only found the common, three-valved form. Agassiz (Chall. Echinoidea. p. 84) thinks that «this bottleshaped pedicellaria is only a modification of the ordinary type of pedicellariæ, in which the terminal edge becomes raised to form a spoon-shaped valve». This is absolutely wrong; one form is a triphyllous pedicellaria, the other a tridentate one. The stalk of the pedicellariæ in by far the greatest number of Echinothurids is thin, irregularly perforated, not distinctly tube-shaped (Pl. XIV. Fig. 31). In the large tridentate pedicellariæ, as in A. varium, also the stalk is somewhat coarser; the stalk of the ophicephalous pedicellariæ of 770mrkosoma is a rather thick tube. In 2%. asZerias the construction of the stalk is quite exceptional among the Echinothurids; it consists of some long, very thin calcareous threads, only united at the ends of the stalk, at most connected in the intervening part by quite few transverse ridges. Also the inner anatomical structure seems to yield good systematic characters. Thus Bell (Catalogue p. 142) mentions as a chief difference between the genera Phormosoma and Asthenosoma that the latter has highly developed «longitudinal muscles» dividing the body-cavity into chambers, while such muscles are wanting in Phormosoma. — To this, however, is to be remarked that the specimens ECHINOIDEA. I. 47 of Phormosoma placenta I have opened, had typically developed, but, to be sure, very fine and fragile longitudinal muscles. Bell (69) has likewise shown that the organs of Stewart are rudimentary or wanting in 2%. placenta, bursarium, and fenue, while in other forms they are highly developed, as has been shown by Sarasin (352) with regard to Å. wrens, and by Koehler with regard to «P%4. uranus» (220). If we now look over the Echinothurids with regard to the structures mentioned here, we shall see that the old genera Prormosoma and Asthenosoma cannot be kept up to the extent in which they have hitherto been taken; several new genera will have to be established. The species will have to be grouped in the following way: Phormosoma placenta. The primary spines on the actinal side are club-shaped, inclosed by a thick bag of skin. The tube feet on the actinal side arranged in a single series; no sucking disk developed. Tridentate pedicellariæ simple, with leaf-shaped, rather deep valves having only a slightly developed net of meshes at the bottom. The spreadings from the upper end of the apophysis do not reach to the lateral edges of the blade. Very nearly allied to this species is Pr. bursaritum A. Ag. The spines on the actinal side are as in 2%. placenta; on the abactinal side the spines are curved, by which feature it is distinguished from the latter species. The pedicellariæ are as in 2%. placenta; the tridentate pedicellariæ occur (in the same individual) in a long, narrow form (Pl. XII, Fig. 1), and a short, broad form, as it will be described below in 2%. p/acenta (Pl. XII. Figs. 2, 3); (nm this species both forms do not appear to be found in the same individuals). The narrow ones have often some rather large, inward directed teeth a little inside of the edge on the lower part of the blade. In the triphyllous pedicellariæ (Pl. XII, Fig. 28) the cover-plate is a little more developed than is the case in the form typical for Px. p/acenta; but in this species similar triphyllous pedicellariæ may also be found together with the typical form. The spicules form two longitudinal series placed just above either edge of the partition-wall in the tube foot; from the middle of the lower side of the spicules a continu- ation passes into the partition-wall, by which means a dark line appears along the middle of each series of spicules. Such continuations from the spicules into the partition-wall are not seen in 2%. placenta, and seem upon the whole mot to be found in other of the Echinothurids examined here. Besides the two longitudinal series more or fewer scattered spicules are found, sometimes so many, that the chief series become indistinct. The spicules are the common irregular fenestrated plates, perhaps a little larger than in 2%. p/acenta. No sucking disk is found. Agassiz (Chall. Ech. p. 99 seq.) is not quite sure whether this species is not possibly identical with P-hormosoma luculentum; «more abundant material may prove, that the differences noticed, although important, are simply individual characteristics partly due to age». He takes much care to show, in which features the two species are distinguished — a rather superfluous work! The two species are very different, which may be seen directly by a glance at the figures given by A gassiz, and, as will be shown here, they cannot even be referred to the same genus. On the other hand Agassiz unfortunately has not observed that 2%. bursarium is very similar to p/acenta; it would have been of considerably higher importance, if we had been informed of the characters by which it is distinguished from this latter. To be sure Agassiz (Chall. Ech. p. 100) observes that it is distinguished from PAX. placenta -Echinids Agassiz gives tolerably recognizable figures of this and the following form of pedicellariæ; — «large, short- stemmed» and «small-headed, long-stemmed pedicellariæ» they are called. Pl. XLIV. Fig. 34 likewise gives a rather good figure of a valve of the second tridentate form, and Fig. 36 of the third form, which is here called «large-headed». But it would be difficult to say what is meant by BIEXSEIE Fig. 9, and Pl. XLIIL Fig. 2, although the former is given as a «long-headed, long-stemmed», the latter as a «long-stemmed, small-headed» pedicellaria of Å. Gruber. On the other hand the pedicellaria The Ingolf-Expedition. IV. 1. 7 50 ECHINOIDEA. I. figured on Pl. XLII. Fig. 8, which in the explanation of the figures is called a «globular-headed, short-stemmed pedicellaria» of A. Gruber, is easily recognizable; but does it really belong to A. Gruber? I have not been able to find such pedicellariæ, neither in Å. Gruber nor in the other allied species. But it is strikingly similar to the peculiar short-headed pedicellaria of 2%. luculentum figured by Agassiz (Pl. X.a. Fig. 7, and Pl. XLIV. Figs. 25—26), and I must suppose a confounding to have taken place. The third, smallest form of tridentate pedicellariæ (Pl. XIV. Fig. 10) is more simple, but also highly characteristic. The blade is simple, but the apophysis continues into it as a high, sharp, coarsely serrate keel; in the larger specimens of this form the keel reaches to the very point of the blade, in the smaller generally only to the middle of the blade. On the sides of the keel there is a rather coarse net of meshes which is, however, far from filling the blade; in the small specimens this net of meshes is only slightly developed. The edge of the blade is finely serrate. When the pedicel- laria is shut, the edges join through the whole length, only a quite small opening is found below. This form has a rather long neck. The head 05—1mm, — In the triphyllous pedicellariæ the cover- plate is well developed, with a few holes; the edge of the blade is beautifully rounded and finely serrate (Pl. XII. Fig. 18). The stalks of the pedicellariæ are of the common structure, only somewhat stronger than is else the case in the Echinothurids. This group of species is very sharply distinguished from all the other Echinothurids, and must form a separate genus, which will, of course, get the old name of Åsz4enosoma. The other species referred to ÅAsZhenosoma do not justly belong to this genus, no more than the other species referred to Phormosoma do in reality belong there. As mentioned above, Agassiz is inclined to think that A. Gruber is identical with Å. varcum. Also de Loriol (246) advocates the same opinion. «La réunion de ces deux espéces me parait fort probable; cependant les exemplaires d'Amboine paraissent différer de ceux que M. Agassiz a fait figurer, par leur forme circulaire, un arrangement des plaques un peu différent dans les zones poriféres et, aussi, par la structure de Vappareil apical qui, d'aprés le dessin ne serait pas la méme» (p. 367). To this may be added the difference of the large pedicellariæ pointed out above. — As I have not had both species for examination at the same time, and have moreover only seen a large specimen of A. Gruber and a couple of small ones of Å. varium, I shall give no decided opinion of this question. In the work quoted above de Loriol further describes a young Echinid which he calls Asthenosoma varium?? — «Il me parait extrémement probable que le petit exemplaire.… qui est un jeune d'une espéce de la famille des Echinothurides, peut étre envisagé comme celui d? /” Asthenosoma varium Grube». It is scarcely an Echinothurid at all, far less a young one of Å. varium. As appears from the description and the figures, the arrangement of the pores (a single, regular series), the spines, the buccal membrane, the apical area are all so different from what is else characteristic of the Echino- thurids, that there can certainly be no question of its being referred there. For the present I shall express 10 conjecture as to where it may really have to be referred. Ludwig (257) is inclined to think that one of the specimens examined by him is a different species from A. varzum, especially because its large pedicellariæ are different from those of Å. varrum. The figure given shows, however, that it is only the second, broad form of tridentate pedicellariæ that ECHINOIDEA. I. SI Ludwig has found in this specimen, while he has not seen this form in the other specimens. I shall express no opinion whether it be otherwise the same species or not. Asthenosoma hystrix. The tube feet are placed in three dense series; a well developed sucking disk is found in the actinal tube feet. In the upper part of the tube foot the spicules are large, irre- gular fenestrated plates quite inclosing the foot; in the lower part of the foot they are placed in two distinctly separated series, and are more or less rod-shaped, with few holes (Pl. XI. Fig. 29). The pri- mary spines on the actinal side end in a little hoof. Only tridentate and triphyllous pedicellariæ are found. Of tridentate pedicellariæ two forms are found, not very sharply distinguished. In the larger form (Pl. XIV. Fig. 26) the edges of the blade are involuted, only the point is a little widened, with a remarkably irregular, finely serrate edge. In the smaller form (Pl. XIII. Figs. 17—18) the involuted part of the blade is shorter, the widened part comparatively larger and less irregular in the edge; when the pedicellaria is shut, the valves are far less separated below than in the larger form (see Wyv. Thomson: «Porcupine»-Ech. Pl. LXIV. Fig. 5) This form occurs in very varying sizes. In the triphyllous pedicellariæ the cover-plate is highly developed, with a few, large holes along the median line; the edge finely serrate (Pl. XII. Fig. 34). The stalk of the pedicellariæ of the common Structure. It is evident that this species is not nearly allied to ÅsZ/enosoma, as here limited. Accordingly it must form a separate genus keeping the name of Ca/veria, which was originally given to it by Wyv. Thomson, and which it has unjustly been deprived of. To the same genus «Åszhenosoma gracile A. Agass. will further have to be referred. Its pedicellariæ (Pl: XIII. Fig. 3) agree so exactly with those of C. 4ystrix, that no distinct specific difference seems to be found in this feature; only the smaller form of tridentate pedicellariæ is a little slenderer than in C. cystrix. "The primary spines end in a small hoof as in C. kystriæ; the tube feet are arranged in the same way as in this latter. The spicules are rather large, irregular fenestrated plates; in the lower part of the tube foot they are smaller and arranged in two well separated series, in the upper part they join completely, and form a close mail round the foot, as figured by Wyv. Thomson from C. hystrix («Porcupine»-Ech. Pl. LXIV. Fig. 3). The sucking disk well developed. — Agassiz, who has seen, to be sure, that this species is very similar to C. hystrix, mentions in his description of it (Chall. Ech. p. 98) some peculiarities with regard to the arrangement of the tubercles as «special characters»; in pedicellariæ and tube feet no distinct specific difference seems to be found, so that for the present we must rest satisfied with the statements of Agassiz. I discovered a very interesting feature by the examination of the type specimen of this species. Some of the secondary spines were swollen at the point (Pl. XIV. Fig. 27), and in the swollen part proved to be sitting a little parasitic Copepod. This seems to be a case of parasitism hitherto quite unknown, and in interest scarcely below that found by Koehler: the gall- forming, parasitic Copepoda in «P%ormosoma uranus» (229)"). The characters here mentioned for Ca/veria gracilis as well as the mentioned feature of the parasitic Copepod, apply only to the specimen from Chall. st. 200. — Of some specimens from sts. 184 and 219 Agassiz says that he refers them to this species «with considerable doubt», in which he is 1) The parasite will be described by Dr. H. I. Hansen in Vidensk. Medd. fra Nat. Foren. København. md dl ECHINOIDEA. I. nm nn quite right. They belong to two different species, most likely also to different genera, and none of them has any relation to C. gracr/l1s. The specimen from st. 219 has a remarkable form of tridentate pedicellariæ; the blade is long, narrow, with uneven, finely serrate edge, deep and in the lower part filled by a net of meshes. The valve figured on Pl. XIV. Fig. 20 is from one of the smaller pedicellariæ. I have only found this form of tridentate pedicellariæ. The triphyllous pedicellariæ (Pl. XII. Fig. 13) have a well developed cover- plate with few holes; the edge finely serrate. The stalk of the pedicellariæ of the common structure. The spicules are large fenestrated plates arranged in two well separated series; the sucking disk well developed. The tube feet are arranged in three series. None of the primary spines on the actinal side are whole, so that nothing can be said of the way in which the point is formed; there is, however, certainly no skin-bag round the point. This species must probably form a separate genus. As, how- ever, n0 quite sufficient characterization can be given of it here, I shall propose no name for it, but be contented with having pointed out that it has no relation to C. graczlrs. The specimen from st. 184 has tridentate pedicellariæ somewhat recalling those of Phormosoma; but they are distinguished from the latter by the fact that the widenings from the upper end of the apophysis reach quite to the edge of the blade (Pl. XIII. Fig. 26); (in Phormosoma they, as stated above, end on the middle of the side of the blade.) The triphyllous pedicellariæ are similar to those of the specimen from st. 219. The stalk of the pedicellariæ of the common structure. The spicules are lengthened, narrow plates, arranged in 2—3 longitudinal series; no sucking disk is found. On the actinal side the tube feet are arranged in a single regular line (on the abactinal side the arrangement was indistinct in the specimen). All the primary spines on the actinal side are broken, so that the form of the point cannot be decided. — That this species has no relation to C. gracilis or to the specimen from st. 219 is evident. It seems to--be nearly related to «2-4.» Zenue, and would then have to be referred, together with this latter, to the genus Æc4rmosoma. (See farther down p. 57.) Although iu the text Agassiz expresses a strong doubt whether the two species here men- tioned, be really « hoplacantha Wyv. Thomson seems to be very nearly allied to this species. Its whole exterior is quite like it; the spines have a similar large, white hoof, and the primary spines are arranged in the same way as in /. Petersii; also the tube feet are arranged quite as in the latter species. Of pedicellariæ only a large tridentate form is known, figured by Agassiz (Chall. Ech. Pl. XLIIL Fig. 1, and Pl. XLIV. Fig. 29). It seems to be very similar to the above described form in H. Petersii. Although I have not examined the pedicellariæ of this species, I do not doubt that it belongs to the same genus as //ygrosoma Petersi -— the difficulty is rather to state any difference between the two species. To judge by the figures of Agassiz, the pedicellariæ, however, seem to differ somewhat from those of //. Petersti, so that presumably specific characters will be found in these structures. As /7. koplacantha has only been taken in the Pacific (at Australia, Japan, and Juan Fernandez), and as /. Petersi is only known from the Atlantic, there can scarcely be any doubt that they form two well distinguished species. No doubt «-hormosoma» luculentum A.Ag. is nearly allied to these two species. As in these the spines of the actinal side end in a large, white hoof. The tube feet are arranged in the same way; the spicules are rather large, irregular fenestrated plates, somewhat indistinctly arranged in two series. A rather well developed sucking disk is found. The tridentate pedicellariæ (Pl. XIII. Fig. 14) are very much similar to those of Æygrosoma Petersii; the triphyllous ones (Pl. XIL Fig. 20) are of a somewhat different form, but otherwise with large cover-plate and serrate edge as in /7. Peztersi. But besides these forms still a very peculiar kind of pedicellariæ is found (Pl. XIII. Fig. 16), which is, no doubt, a modified form of tridentate pedicellariæ. The valves are very broad, constricted in the middle. 1) dypås — elastic. 60 ECHINOIDEA. I. The blade is filled by an exceedingly dense and complicated net of meshes. In the figures of Agassiz (Pl. XLIV. Figs. 25—26, Chall. Ech.) this net of meshes is not seen, but otherwise these figures give a good representation of the single valve. The length of the head 1r5mm, the neck very short, the stalk thicker and stronger than usual, with a constriction above. They seem only to be found on the actinal side. Agassiz further figures (Pl. XLIV. Fig. 27) a single valve of a «small short-headed, shortstemmed pedicellaria», which seems to be an ophicephalous one. This form I have not found in the specimen I examined in British Museum (Chall. st. 200); but as, at the time, I had not noticed the mentioned figure, I have not, of course, made any special search for it, and so I dare say nothing of it. If this species should thus prove to be possessed of two kinds of pedicellariæ, to which nothing corresponding is found in any other known Echinothurid, there might be some reason to establish a separate genus for it. For the present, however, I think it most correct to refer it to the genus ÆZygrosoma, as in so many important structures it agrees exactly with the other species referred to this genus. The last of the Echinothurids described from «Challenger», Phormosoma asterias, differs to a high degree from all the others; to be sure, its peculiarities do not appear from the description of the species by Agassiz (Chall. Ech. p. 104), but his figures give more information, and the examination of the type specimen in British Museum revealed still more interesting features. — The ambulacral areas show the quite unique feature that the small secondary ambulacral plates are wanting; there is only one tube foot for each ambulacral plate. Thus only a single series of tube feet is found, and the distance between the feet is rather large. This highly interesting feature is seen very well on the figures of Agassiz (Pl. XIL a. Figs. 8, 9); in the description he only says that «the course of the poriferous zone is quite sporadic». (It is a matter of course that this very interesting feature ought to be examined exactly, as it is possible that traces may be found of the secondary ambulacral plates and their tube feet.) The spicules are lengthened, narrow, with few or no holes (comp. Pl. XL. Fig. 18); they are arranged parallel to the longitudinal axis of the foot, in 2—3 well separated series; in the outer part of the foot they may join completely. No sucking disk is found. — The spines are of a quite peculiar structure, that is to say they are flat and broad towards the point (Pl. XIV. Fig. 20). I can give no information whether a hoof is found on the point of these spines or on other spines of common form, as I have not made sufficient notes on this fact. The pedicellariæ are not less peculiar. The blade of the tridentate pedicellariæ (Pl. XIIL. Fig. 9) is rather flat, with a more or less well developed, perforated cover-plate below reminding of that in the triphyllous pedicellariæ. The point is hastately cut off, a little widened, with finely dentate outer edge; the apophysis and the lateral edges more or less thorny. In the triphyllous pedicellariæ the cover-plate is very slightly developed, highly perforated (Pl. XII. Fig. 12). The edge shows only very slight indications of teeth, so that they are only to be seen under especially high magnifying powers. The stalk of the pedicellariæ is quite different from that of all other Echinothurids, as it consists of long, thin calcareous threads, almost without any connection except in the upper and lower end of the stalk — as in an Æchinus. It is evident that this species cannot be referred to any of the other genera; it must form a separate genus, for which I propose the name of Kamptosoma;). 1) xauxte — bend. ECHINOIDEA. 1. 61 To this genus belongs further one specimen (or more?) from Chall. st. 272 determined by Agassiz as Phormosoma tenue? — "The spicules (Pl. XI. Fig. 18) are as in Æ. asZerias and arranged in the same way; no sucking disk. I can give no information of the fact whether the spines are as in K. asterias, as I have no notice of this feature. The pedicellariæ are very similar to those of Æ. asterras, but here moreover a larger form of tridentate pedicellariæ is found (Pl. XIII Figs. 15, 21), which I have not seen in the type specimen of AX. asZerzas. As, however, the pedicellariæ agree otherwise so exactly, it may be supposed that this form will also be found in AX. aszerzas. "This larger form of pedicellariæ is chiefly constructed as the smaller one; the cover-plate has only a few holes in the median line, or is quite open the edges not joining completely. The point is a little widened, broadly hastate, with exceedingly finely serrate edge; (as in the triphyllous pedicellariæ the serrations are only to be seen under very high magnifying powers); the holes in the blade are beautifully arranged in curved series. «They are very long-necked; the head up to o'&8rm; the stalk is of the structure char- acteristic of the genus Kamptosoma. "The smaller form of tridentate pedicellariæ resemble to a high degree those of A. aszterras the only difference being that the apophysis and edges have no thorns. The triphyllous pedicellariæ are somewhat shorter and more arched than those of X. aszerras, but they have the same peculiar cover-plate, and the serrations of the edge are likewise exceedingly slight. — There can be no doubt that this species also belongs to the genus Kamptosoma; but it may be doubtful whether it is a separate species, or identical with AX. aszerzas. The small differences in the pedicellariæ are suggestive of its being a distinct species; but this question cannot be decided with certainty, till a direct comparison of the two specimens has been made. Now we have only left two of the species referred to Phormosoma, viz. Ph. panamense A. Ag., and Ph. hispidum A.Ag. As to the former it has been supposed above that it may be a genuine Phormosoma, of the latter nothing at all can be said. Both species have only been preliminarily and very incompletely described. The genus Søerosoma established by Koehler (228, 229) is especially characteristic by the peculiar construction of the ambulacral areas on the actinal side. The secondary ambulacral plates are of about the same size as the primary ones; the primary ambulacral plate is divided into an outer part, in which the pore is found, and an inner part. Thus on the actinal side the ambulacral area consists of 8 series of plates. The tube feet are placed in three widely separated series. The spicules are large fenestrated plates, not arranged in series; there is a well developed sucking disk (Pl. XIV. Fig. 4). Only tridentate and triphyllous pedicellariæ are found. The tridentate ones (Pl. XIV. Figs. 2, 6, 33) remind somewhat of those in 2%. p/acenta, especially the small forms are only with difficulty to be distinguished from those; the widenings from the upper end of the apophysis do not reach to the edge of the blade. There is a rather coarse net of meshes in the bottom of the blade, slightly devel- oped in the small forms, more developed in the larger ones, and in these latter it is set with thorns (Pl XIIL Fig. 12.) The length of the head up to 2mm, the neck rather short in the large ones; the stalk of the common structure. In the triphyllous pedicellariæ the cover-plate is rather slightly developed, with numerous small holes. The edge finely serrate. The primary spines on the actinal side curved, with a large, white hoof. Besides the species of Koehler, Sø. Grimaldi, a species established by Dåderlein (118), Sp. 62 ECHINOIDEA. I. biseriatum, has been referred to this especially well characterized genus; but it has not hithertho been more thoroughly described, so that for the present nothing can be said of this species. One more genus will have to be established for a large Echinothurid obtained by the «Ingolf»- Expedition. The tube feet form one irregular series on the actinal side; the spicules irregular fene- strated plates not arranged in series; no sucking disk. The primary spines on the actinal side curved, with large hoof. Three kinds of pedicellariæ are found: tridentate, ophicephalous, and triphyllous pedicellariæ. The tridentate ones occur in two forms; in the larger form (length of the head up to 3'5mm) the blade is filled by a coarse, very thorny net of meshes (Pl. XII. Fig. 41). The edges are not involuted; the outer part of the blade somewhat widened. The neck very short, the stalk of the common structure. The smaller form resembles those in 2%. p/acenta, but the widenings from the upper end of the apophysis reach to the edge of the blade. The ophicephalous pedicellariæ (Pl. XIV. Figs. 19, 23, 25) are very peculiar, the upper end of the valve being widened in a wing-shaped way, while the middle part is very narrow. The length of the head ca. 05, The neck is quite short, contrary to the ophicephalous pedicellariæ of the Kchinids, and the stalk is a thick, perforated tube. — As ophicephalous pedicellariæ, as far as hitherto known, are not found in other Echinothurids (perhaps they are found, however, in //ygrosoma luculentum (see above p. 59—60), but then they have quite another form) they yield an excellent character for this genus. In the triphyllous pedicellariæ the cover-plate is rather slightly developed, richly perforated (Pl. XII. Fig. 31). — For this genus I pro- pose the name of Tromikosoma)). According to these researches the system of the Echinothurids gets the following appearance: Phormosoma Wyv. Thomson (emend.) The primary spines on the actinal side straight, club-shaped, inclosed by a thick bag of skin; marked difference between the actinal and the abactinal sides. The areoles of the actinal side very large. The tube feet are arranged in a single series on the actinal side. The spicules large fenestrated plates; no sucking disk. Only tridentate and triphyllous pedicellariæ. The tridentate ones are simply leaf-shaped, with little developed net of meshes. The widenings from the upper end of the apophysis do not reach to the edge of the blade. The stalk of the pedicellariæ irregularly perforated. Species: 2Pz. placenta Wyv.' Thomson, bursarium A.Ag., rigidum A. Ag. Distribution: Northern part of the Atlantic, Japan, the Philippines, New-Zealand. — Archiben- thal forms. Echinosoma Pomel (emend.). The primary spines on the actinal side curved, with a little hoof at the point; the actinal and the abactinal sides look almost quite alike, only a few, large spines being found near the ambitus. The areoles large. The tube feet are placed in one almost regular series on the actinal side; the spicules large fenestrated plates, no sucking disk. Only tridentate and triphyllous pedicellariæ. Of tridentate pedicellariæ two forms are (always?) found, a large one, flat, with a rich net of meshes, and with the upper end of the apophysis continuing some way into the blade as a serrate crest, and a smaller one, 1) tooutxås — quivering. ECHINOIDEA. I. 63 simply leaf-shaped, with a little developed net of meshes. The stalk of the pedicellariæ irregularly perforated. Species: Æch. tenue (A. Ag.), uranus (Wyv. Thomson). Distribution: The Pacific, the northern Atlantic. — Abyssal forms. Asthenosoma Grube (emend.). Synonym: Cyanosoma Sarasin. The primary spines on the actinal side curved, with a rather long, narrow hoof; rather great difference between the abactinal and the actinal sides, on account of the numerous primary spines covering the whole actinal side; the areoles are almost of equal size on both sides. The spines on the abactinal side inclosed by a thick, annularlv constricted bag of skin. The tube feet form three dense series; the spicules small branched bodies, arranged in longitudinal series. Sucking disk well devel- oped. Only tridentate and triphyllous pedicellariæ. The tridentate ones occur in three distinct forms. The largest form has a long, narrow blade, widened in the point where it is coarsely serrate (not observed in all the species); the second form has a short, broad, and flat blade filled by a rich net of meshes and with coarsely sinuate edge. The third form is simply leaf-shaped, with the apophysis con- tinued to the middle of the blade, or quite to the point as a sharp, serrate crest. The stalk irregularly perforated. Species: AÅszh. varium Grube, Gruber A. Ag., urens Sarasin, heteractis Bedford. Distribution: Ceylon, the East-Indian Archipelago. -— Littoral forms. Calveria Wyv. Thomson (emend.). The primary spines on the actinal side curved, ending in a little hoof; only a slight difference between the actinal and the abactinal sides. The areoles rather small. The primary spines form a rather conspicuous series along the outer margin of the interambulacral areas, especially towards the ambitus on the actinal side. The tube feet in three dense series; the spicules in the outer part of the tube foot larger fenestrated plates, in the lower part smaller and arranged in longitudinal series. Sucking disk developed. Only tridentate and triphyllous pedicellariæ. In the large form of tridentate pedicellariæ the blade is much involuted, only at the point a little widened, and the edge of this widened part is irregularly serrate. The smaller tridentate pedicellariæ chiefly of the same form, only the widened part of the blade comparatively larger, the involuted part smaller. The stalk irregularly perforated. Species: C. kystrix Wyv. Thomson, graczlis (A. Agass.). Distribution: The northern Atlantic, the Philippines. — Archibenthal forms. ÅAræosoma n. g. The primary spines on the actinal side curved, ending in a little hoof; only a slight difference between the actinal and the abactinal sides; the areoles rather small. The primary spines form a rather conspicuous series along the outer margin of the interambulacral areas, especially on the actinal side towards the ambitus. The tube feet in three dense series. The spicules larger fenestrated plates, in the lower part of the tube foot smaller, sometimes irregular needles, more or less distinctly arranged in longitudinal series. Sucking disk well developed. Besides the commonly occurring tridentate and 64 ECHINOIDEA. I. triphyllous pedicellariæ also tetradactylous pedicellariæ are found. The tridentate ones occur in 2—3 different forms. In one form the blade is highly involuted, only the point is widened, deeply indented in the edge. The second form has a shorter involuted part, and a comparatively larger widened point, with coarsely sinuate edge; in the smaller specimens of this form the edge of the widened part may be quite straight. (In one species (A. zesselatum) instead of this form a tridentate pedicellaria is found, in which the edge of the blade is not at all involuted, and the blade is filled by a coarse net of meshes; in another species (A. Be//1) only (?) very large specimens are found of the second form, and here occurs moreover a third, smaller form with involuted edge and widened point the edges of which are not sinuate. — The position of these two species is somewhat uncertain). The stalk of the pedicellariæ irregularly perforated. Species: A. Zenestratum (Wyv. Thoms.), coriaceum (A. Ag.), zesselatum (A. Ag.) (2), Belli n. sp. (?). Distribution: The northern Atlantic, the Viti Islands, the Philippines. — Sublittoral-archiben- thal forms. Hapalosoma mn. g. The primary spines on the actinal side curved, with a rather long, thin hoof; they form a regular, conspicuous series along the outer margins of the interambulacral areas, which series continues some way up on the abactinal side. The areoles not very large; no conspicuous difference between the actinal and the abactinal sides. The tube feet in three series — almost as in an Æchrnus. The spicules almost rod-shaped, above somewhat larger fenestrated plates, arranged in two series; the sucking disk well developed. Three kinds of pedicellariæ: globiferous, tridentate, and triphyilous ones. In the globiferous ones the glandular bags are quite wrapped in a common skin; they open in the point of the head each through a separate little pore. The valves, which are situated between the glandular bags, reach only half-way to the point. The tridentate pedicellariæ are simply leaf-shaped, with an only slightly developed net of meshes; only this form is found. The stalk of the common structure. Species: /. pellucidum (A. Ag)). Distribution: The Philippines, New Guinea. — Sublittoral form. Hygrosoma n. g. The primary spines on the actinal side curved, with a large, white hoof; they are scattered near the ambitus; the areoles large; the difference between the actinal and the abactinal sides rather great. The tube feet are arranged in one almost regular series on the actinal side. The spicules large fenestrated plates, no sucking disk. Only tridentate and triphyllous pedicellariæ. The tridentate ones occur only in one form, highly involuted; the point is widened in a spoon-like manner, and its edge is straight. The stalk of the pedicellariæ of the common structure. In one species, H. /ucu- lentum, another kind of tridentate pedicellariæ is found, with very thick and broad blades, almost as ophicephalous pedicellariæ; but the species cannot with certainty be referred here. Species: /7. Petersi (A. Agass.), hoplacantha (Wyv. Thoms.), /uculentum (A. Ag.) (?). Distribution: The northern Atlantic, the Pacific. — Sublittoral-archibenthal forms. Tromikosoma n. g. The primary spines on the actinal side curved, with a large hoof, they are only few and ECHINOIDEA. I. 65 scattered, and form no regular series; the areoles of a middle size; no great difference between the actinal and the abactinal sides. The spicules irregular fenestrated plates, not in series; the tube feet in one irregular series on the actinal side; no sucking disk. Three kinds of pedicellariæ: ophice- phalous, tridentate, and triphyllous ones. The ophicephalous ones with the valves highly constricted in the middle, short neck, and tube-formed stalk. The tridentate ones occur in two forms, a larger one with leaf-shaped point, filled by a coarse, thorny net of meshes, not involuted; and a smaller one, simply leaf-shaped, with the widenings of the apophysis ending at the very edge of the blade. The stalk of the tridentate and the triphyllous pedicellariæ of the common structure. Species: 7: Koehlert n. sp. Distribution: The Davis Strait. — Abyssal form. Sperosoma Koehler. The primary spines on the actinal side curved, with a large white hoof; they occur scattered; the areoles large. Rather great difference between the actinal and the abactinal sides. The secondary ambulacral plates on the actinal side of the same size as the primary ones; the ambulacral areas con- sist on the actinal side of 8 series of plates. The tube feet on the actinal side in three widely separated series. The spicules large, fenestrated plates, not arranged in series; sucking disk well developed. Only tridentate and triphyllous pedicellariæ. The tridentate ones are simply leaf-shaped; the widenings from the upper end of the apophysis do not reach to the edge of the blade; in the large ones the blade is filled by a coarse, thorny net of meshes. The stalk of the common structure. Species: Sp. Grimaldiu Koehler, brserratum Dåderlein. Distribution: The northern Atlantic, the Indian Ocean. — Archibenthal forms. Kamptosoma 1. g. The spines (at all events some of them) flat and widened towards the point; hoof (?); no great difference between the actinal and the abactinal sides. Secondary ambulacral plates seem to be wanting. The tube feet form a single series. Only tridentate and triphyllous pedicellariæ; in the tridentate ones the blade is flat with more or less developed cover-plate; a larger and a smaller form are found, only little different. In the triphyllous pedicellariæ the cover-plate is uncommonly slightly developed. The stalk consists of long threads almost only united at the ends. Species: Æ. aszterias (ÅA. Agass.). Distribution: The Pacific. — Abyssal form. Incertæ sedis: Phormosoma panamense A.Ag. — hispidum A. Ag. Asthenosoma longispinum Voshiwara. — Jyamai Voshiwara. As has been done above in the Cidarids I shall also here expressly observe that I do not regard the generic diagnoses given here as complete, As well the structure of the test as the inner anatomy stands in need of an exact examination in several of the genera. I must, however, regard The Ingolf-Expedition. IV. 1. 9 66 ECHINOIDEA. I. all the genera established here as good ones, and also the limitation of the old genera Phormosoma and AÅsthenosoma is no doubt correct. Only the genera Åræosoma and Hygrosoma are perhaps still taken in too wide a sense, in as far as the species A. Zesselatum and Belli, as also /7. luculentum ought perhaps to be separated as particular genera; at all events, however, they are most nearly allied to the genera to which they are here referred. In stead of the former confusion of species and the two genera that were not to be kept distinct, we have got a number of definitely characterized and easily recognisable genera — a result that has been obtained especially by a careful examination of the pedicellariæ. Thus it proves here as in the Cidarids to be a fact that the spines and the structure of the test are in no way a sufficient basis for the classification. Otherwise the spines play a prominent part in the classification of the Echinothurids, and by means of these alone a far better classification might have been obtained than the one expressed in the old «genera» Phrormosoma and Asthenosoma. For the present it must be left undecided whether there may be any question of a grouping of the genera into subfamilies. There is, however, no doubt that the genera Phormosoma and Kamp- tosoma are rather distantly allied to the other genera. 5. Phormosoma placenta Wyv. Thomson. PE BEi gs sr 2 EP ES ENE es 7 TO 2 SE PLET ES 0 223 2526 537130 PEDE RE 27 Synonym: 2Zkormosoma Sigsber Agassiz. Principal literature: Wyville Thomson: «Porcupine»-Echinoidea (395). p. 732. Pl. LXII—LXIIL — A. Agassiz: 6. p.75. «Blake-Echini» (9) p. 30. Pl. XII, XV. Fig. 3—19. — E.A. Verrill: 418. p. 139. — W. E. Hoyle: Rev. List of Brit. Ech. (202). p. 406. — F. Jeffr. Bell: 69.…p. 436—38. Catalogue of Brit. Ech. (73). p. 144. This species has been so carefully described by Wyv.Thomson and Agassiz, that there is no reason to give here again a complete description of it. Only a few structures need still a more exact description, viz. the spines, the tube feet, and the pedicellariæ; some remarks must also be made with regard to the development and transformation of the apical area, as also with regard to the inner structure. Of the spines on the actinal side of this species Bell (Catal. p. 144) says: «from what is known . it is probable, that they are rather long and have a stout calcareous cap». This is wrong. Wyv. Thomson, to be sure, says (l. c.) that two kinds of spines are found, but what he describes and figures is only larger and smaller spines of the kind found on the abactinal side; the large spines on the actinal side have been broken in his specimens. Agassiz, in the description of P2. placenta («Blake»- Echini), says nothing of the spines of the actinal side, but from his fig. 8. Pl. XII it is seen that they are club-shaped, and in the explanation of the figures they are called «clubshaped». In the diagnosis of Ph. Sigsber, which, according to Agassiz himself, is synonymous with 2%. p/acenta, it is said: primary radioles on the actinal surface resembling those of 2%. bursaria», and of these latter he says (Chall. Ech. p. 100): «on the actinal surface the primary spines are not tipped with a solid hoof, but all end in a fleshy bag». — Thus it may be seen, by comparing the several statements, to be sub- ECHINOIDEA. I. 67 stantiated in an indirect manner in the literature that the primary spines on the actinal side are inclosed in a thick bag of skin, and it may be seen rather easier on the animals themselves when they are fairly well preserved. — These bags of skin may possiby contain poison apparatus; at all events the living Phormosomes are said to sting when touched, and there seems to be no poison bags on the spines of the abactinal side. These skin-covered spines are of a more complicated structure than the spines of the abactinal side; only at the base it may still be seen that they have originally been tubular as the other spines. They end in a broad serrate point (Pl. XII. Fig. 11). In transverse sections it is seen that they are tubular in the lower part with projecting, hollowed ridges (Pl. XI. Fig.7b); towards the point these ridges become much less conspicuous and quite irregular. At the same time the cavity is filled by an irregular net of meshes of fine calcareous threads running parallel to the longitudinal axis of the tube (Pl. XI. Fig. 10). The spines of the abactinal side, as is seen from the excellent figure by Wyv. Thomson (Pl. LXII. 3), are hollow tubes, very regularly perforated, and ending in a long, fine point. Most fregquently, however, the thorns are both fewer and more feeble than in this figure. Transverse sections show that here no projecting longitudinal ridges are found (Pl. XI. Fig.7a). The spines on the peristome are covered in their whole length by a thick skin, but they have no bag-shaped widening in the point. The spines themselves are constructed as the primary spines of the actinal side, the only difference being that they are not widened at the point (Pl. XII. Fig. 19). The expression of «marginal fasciole», used by Agassiz of the close-sitting small spines at the ambitus («Blake»-Echini. p. 34) is to be avoided, at all events for the present. Agassiz, to be sure, thinks that they «take(s) almost the prominence of a fasciole, and are (is) interesting as showing how such a structure may exist in a rudimentary form in the Desmosticha» (Chall. Ech. p. 98). I do not think that it recalls to any striking degree the fascioles of the Spatangids, and at all events we have for the present no safety that they are homologous formations. The expression of marginal fringe» used by Wyv. Thomson is therefore to be preferred, as it is quite without morphological pretensions. Wyv. Thomson (op.cit. p. 735) states that the tube feet «are provided with a sucker with a well-developed calcareous rosette of four or five pieces». This sucker I have not been able to find; according to my examinations all the tube feet, as well actinal as abactinal, end in a point, without sucking disk. The spicules, which are, as stated by Wyv. Thomson, irregular, larger or smaller fenestrated plates, are commonly arranged in 4 longitudinal series. This is especially distinct in the lower part of the tube foot; towards the point the plates become larger and arcuate, and at last they surround the foot as a mail. There is no great difference between the spicules of the tube feet of the actinal and the abactinal sides; they are only more slightly developed in the latter (Pl. XI. Fig. 25). In young specimens of 2%. placenta the peculiar feature is found in the tube feet of the abac- tinal side that only the uppermost one of the three tube feet that correspond to each ambulacral plate, is well developed, while the other two are quite rudimentary. The same fact may also be found in large specimens, and it may at all events most frequently be seen that the uppermost one of each set of three tube feet (the one belonging to the inner one of the two small secondary ambulacral plates) is more developed than the others. In these rudimentary tube feet no spicules are developed; neither 9 68 ECHINOIDEA. I. are any spicules found in the skin on the outside of the plates (which may easily be prepared off) or in the bag of skin round the spines of the actinal side. The pedicellariæ. The tridentate pedicellariæ occur only in one form, with simply leaf-shaped valves. The size is very different, from quite small ones to such where the head has'a length of 2mm, The form of the valves is rather varying, sometimes short, broad, and flat, almost without any net of meshes, sometimes long, narrow, and deep, or long and broad, with a rather well developed net of meshes at the bottom. On Pl. XII. Figs. 2, 3, 7, 26, 37, 39 some forms are given; all transitions between them are found; but narrow and broad forms do not seem to occur in the same individual, as in 2%. bursartum. "The upper end of the apophysis is widened, but these widenings do not reach to the edge of the blade, they cease about midway on the side. Also the net of meshes at the bottom of the blade is an immediate continuation of the upper end of the apophysis; it is always smooth. The sides of the blade are most frequently a little bent outward, especially on the narrow forms. The edge is finely serrate, which is only to be seen under higher magnifying powers. The tridentate pedicellaria figured on PLS Fis 7 "isithe long, narrow ttorms "Thefneck"isfrather lone therstalk aisthinskirre= gularly perforated. In some specimens from st. 40 the tridentate pedicellariæ are especially long and narrow (the pedicellaria figured on Pl. XIIL Fig. 7 is one of these), so that we might be inclined to regard these as a separate species or variety. As there seems, however, to be no other characters, — with the exception that the tube feet of the actinal side are more rudimentary than usual — and as the form of the pedicellariæ may be rather varying, there can scarcely be any question of regarding these speci- mens otherwise than as good 2-2. placenta. The triphyllous pedicellariæ have been excellently figured by Wyv. Thomson (Pl. LXII. Fig. 6), so I only figure one valve seen from the inside (Pl. XIL Fig. 21). The cover-plate is here very slightly developed, but in this feature some variation is found. The outer edge is finely serrate. Sometimes two-valved pedicellariæ are found, especially tridentate ones, more rarely triphyllous ones. They are constructed as the normal three-valved pedicellariæ, and have an apophysis as these, only more slightly developed. It is rather interesting to compare these pedicellariæ with the normally two-valved ones in Forocidaris; in the latter the apophysis is quite wanting. I have found a few instances of a tridentate pedicellaria, in which the edge of the blade was a little involuted for a short space below, so that it reminded of the small tridentate pedicellariæ in Åræosoma fenestratum. The sphæridiæ (Pl. XII. Figs. 23, 25) are commonly almost globular, but show too great varia- tion to be reliable specific characters. As observed by Agassiz they are placed in a series along the tube feet from the mouth far up on the abactinal side. According to Bell (69. p. 438) the longitudinal muscles are «altogether absent from Prormo- soma». I cannot agree with Bell in this statement; they are also found in 2%. p/acenta, and are of the common form, but they are fine and break easily, so that the preparation must be made with great caution, in order to get a distinct view of them. I think it only little probable that any greater individual variation with regard to the development of the longitudinal muscles should be found in Ph. placenta, so that they might even sometimes be quite wanting. The organs of Stewart, as shown by Beli (op. cit.), are very little developed. ECHINOIDEA. I. 69 Agassiz («Blake»-Echini. Pl. XV) has figured several stages of development of this species. As among the material of 2%. placenta collected by the «Ingolf» several small specimens are found, especially from st. 25 (the Davis Strait), I have been able to follow the development of the apical area, and have found that the description of this development given by Agassiz does not agree very well with what is shown by the specimens before me. Whether this is due to the fact that the figures given by Agassiz are inaccurately drawn, or perhaps a confounding with another species has taken place, I shall not try to decide. (The possibility of the West-Indian specimens of 2%. p/acenta being a special local form, seems to be excluded: some specimens from the Gulf of Mexico, which our museum has received from the Smithsonian Institution, agree exactly with those taken in the Davis Strait.) I shall only figure a couple of stages of the development of the apical area in the specimens in hand. On PI. IV. Fig. 2 the apical area of a specimen of a diameter of 7mm js figured. Agassiz on Pl. XV. Fig. 3 figures the apical area of a specimen of a diameter of 8mm, The difference between these two figures is rather conspicuous. In the specimen figured here the ocular plates have a peculiar, «spade»-like form, and the genital plates almost join inside of them, so that the ocular plates only just touch the anal area; the madreporite may already be distinguished. In the figure of Agassiz the form of the ocular and the genital plates is quite different, and the ocular plates reach far inside of the genital plates. On PI. IV. Fig. I the apical area of a specimen of a diameter of 377 js figured. The development of small plates, partly at the cost of the genital and ocular plates, is here already rather advanced, the ocular plates, however, having still essentially kept the form characteristic of the younger stages. (In the adult animal this form is no more to be recognized.) Even if all possible transitional stages between the two figured here were not found, there could scarcely be any doubt that they are developmental stages of the same species. The peculiar small, oblong plates in the skin of the region round the anal opening, begin already to appear in specimens of a diameter of 1grr, (They have here been drawn a little too regular.) Agassiz (Pl. XV. Figs.9 and 11) figures the apical area of specimens of a respective diameter of 28mm and 41mm, The resemblance to the figures given here is not striking; but the figures are rather indistinct, so that it is difficult to compare the details of the two sets of figures. Further Agassiz (Pl. XV. Fig. 5) figures the apical area of a Pk. placenta of a diameter of I7æm; this figure agrees as badly with a specimen of I7mm now before me, as does the figure 3 of Agassiz with the apical area of a specimen of 7rm figured here. — A comparison of these two figures in Agassiz (Figs. 3 and 5) conveys the direct impression that they do not belong to one species. But whatever the case may be with regard to these figures, it is a sure fact that the specimens before me are really Pxormosoma placenta. It is still to be observed that the figures given here have been drawn from dried specimens; in specimens in spirit it is generally impossible to see the limits between the plates distinctly. A large material of this species has been obtained by the «Ingolf»-Expedition on the following stations: St. 24. (63? 06' N. Lat., 56” 00' W. L. 1190 fms. Mud. 2? 7 bottom temp.). 1 specimen Er 503 30 SES fe NESS SEE RES es 10 Er JETOT ER: — 28. (65717' -— 557427 — 420 — — 378 — 827 — — 40. (62700" — 21736" — 845 — — 39 ERE: )be,= Er ØGE SOS 4 OR 0505 RR 800 3453 FE REDE BID 7O ECHINOIDEA. I. re] St. 69. (62? 40' N. Lat., 22? 17' W. L. 589fms. Mud. 3” 9 bottom temp.). 1 specimen. — 73. (622580. — 23728" — 486 — — 51 — Jes — — 76. (60"50' — 267500 — 806 — — 37 — )r — — 83. (627257 —— 2830. — g2— ? 31 — Je — From previous collections we have some specimens from the Davis Strait (66? 49' N. Lat., 56? 28' W. L. 235 fathoms. Wandel). Phormosoma placenta is distributed over the whole northern part of the Atlantic, from the West Indies to the Davis Strait, from the Bay of Biscay to the Far&e Islands and Iceland. It has been taken on depths from 150—1356 fathoms (Bell Catalogue, Hoyie 202, Rathbun 337), but it seems chiefly to be found on ca. 400—1000 fathoms. Koehler (226. p.g1) also observes that it is «rélative- ment rare dans les dragages profonds». It is an archibenthal form scarcely occurring on the great depths in the Atlantic, but limited to the territories of the mentioned depth that stretch across the Atlantic south of Iceland and then follow the European and American coasts southward. It is scarcely found north of the ridge across the Denmark Strait or that between Iceland and the Far&e Islands. It seems absolutely to demand a positive bottom temperature. 6. Calveria hystrix7) Wyv. Thomson. Pl. III. Figs. 1—2. Pl. XI. Figs. 5, 29. Pl. XII. Fig. 34. Pl. XIIL Figs. 17, 18. Pl. XIV. Figs. 13, 26. Synonym: Åszthenosoma hystrix (Agassiz, Bell, Koehler etc.). Non: Ca/lveria (Asthenosoma) fenestrata Wyv.'Thomson. Principal literature: Wyv. Thomson: Echinoidea of «Porcupine» (395) p. 738. Pl. LXITIV—LXV. — A. Agassiz: Revision of Echini II. p. 273. Pl. Il. c. Fig. 1—5 (?). — 6 p. 74. — 14 p. 3. Pl. IL Fig. 1—2. — W.E. Hoyle; Revised List of Brit. Echinoidea. (202) p. 407. — F. Jeffr. Bell: 72 p. 526. Pl. XXIV— XXV. — Catalogue of British Echinoderms. p. 143. — R. Koehler: 229 p.9. After the excellent description of this species by Wyv.Thomson it is unnecessary here to give a new thorough description of it; only a few points stand in need of a somewhat more exact description than has hitherto been given. The primary spines on the actinal side are curved (somewhat more than shown by the figure (Pl. IIL. Fig. 2)), and end in a small, short, and somewhat widened hoof; it is whitish, and consequently rather conspicuous on the pink spine. «Flaring at the extremity», Agassiz (14 p.5) says of the spines, otherwise their ending in a hoof is not mentioned in the literature. In transverse sections of the spines (Pl. XI. Fig. 5) it is seen that the longitudinal ridges are rather low, widened in the outer part, with a little projection (indented) on the outside. The small spines on the abactinal side give in trans- verse sections a figure a little different (Pl. XI. Fig.5b); the outer surface of the longitudinal ridges is finely arcuate, and their edges are almost joining. The pedicellariæ have been excellently described and figured by Wyv. Thomson, who gives, however, no figures of the single valves, so that the features systematically most important cannot be seen in his figures. In the larger form of tridentate pedicellariæ (Pl. XIV. Fig. 26) the blade is highly 1) On Pl. III it is wrongly called As/4enosoma; this plate was reproduced before my stay at British Museum, that is to say, before I had a quite clear understanding of the generic relations of the Echinothurids. ECHINOIDEA. I. 71 involuted, only the point is somewhat widened, and the edge of this terminal part is almost straight cut off, but irregularly serrate. The involuted part of the blade is filled by an irregular net of meshes. In the smaller form of tridentate pedicellariæ (Pl. XIIL Figs. 17—18) there is a comparatively larger widened part in the point of the blade, and a corresponding smaller, involuted part; this feature is rather varying according to the size. The edge of the widened part is also here irregularly serrate, but may in the smallest specimens be almost quite straight and regularly serrate. The blade is less curved in the small form than in the large one, and accordingly the valves are less wide apart when the pedicellaria is shut, which feature is excellently seen in the figures of Wyv. Thomson. I quite agree with Wyv. Thomson, when he thinks this smaller form to be «a modification of the first more or less reduced in size and lengthened in its proportions»; on the other hand I must protest against his finding it «like some of the common varieties in the Cidaridæ» (op. cit. p. 739). Any resem- blance to the pedicellariæ of the Cidarids is absolutely not found, except so far that both forms are pedicellariæ, and as such agree in their chief structures. — The size of the tridentate pedicellariæ (the head) is up to 1r2mm as stated by Wyv. Thomson. The neck is rather short in the large pedi- cellariæ, somewhat more developed in the small ones. The triphyllous pedicellariæ have a very large cover-plate, most frequently almost without holes; only in the median line there is a series of large holes, made by protuberances from the sides of the cover-plate growing towards the middle and coa- lescing there (Pl. XII. Fig. 34). The outer edge is rather strongly dentate. The stalk of the pedicel- lariæ is of the structure common in the Echinothurids, irregularly perforated. The sphæridiæ are rather long-stalked, their head beautifully round and smooth (Pl. XIV. Fig. 13). The spicules are arranged in two series in the lower part of the tube feet; they are here narrow, more or less rod-shaped, with few, sometimes no holes (Pl. XI. Fig. 29); they are placed across the longitudinal axis of the foot. Above they are large, irregular fenestrated plates quite encompassing the foot. The «longitudinal muscles» are well developed; on the other hand no distinct organs of Stewart were seen in the specimen I opened. To be sure, Koehler (op. cit.) states the organs of Stewart to be well developed. As Koehler, however, follows Bell in regarding Ca/verra hystrix and fenestrata as synonyms, it cannot be seen, which of these species he has examined. Nor could I see the organs of Stewart in a specimen of the latter species. Of Calveria hystrix two specimens have been obtained by the «Ingolf»-Expedition on the sta- tions 89 (64" 45' N. Lat., 27? 20' W. L. 310 fathoms, the bottom mud, bottom temperature 8”), and 97 (65? 28' N. Lat., 27? 39 W. L. 450 fathoms. Sandy mud. Bottom temperature 5” 1). The specimen from st. 97 is very beautifully preserved, and as the colour has almost not faded — to judge by a coloured sketch made on board from the living animal — it is here figured in colours (Pl. III. Figs. 1—2); only the darker bands mentioned by Wyv. Thomson (p. 740), are no longer seen distinctly; in the original sketch they are indicated. Whether the specimen of 3mm mentioned by Agassiz in Rev. of Echini, Pt. IL p. 273, really is a C. hystrix, cannot be seen from the figures. Agassiz, to be sure, says that «the pedicellariæ are similar»; but it is not quite evident whether they resemble those of C. 4ysérzæ, or those of ÅsZhenosoma Gruber; and even if the meaning be that they resemble the figures of the pedicellariæ in C. hystrix 72 ECHINOIDEA. I. given by Wyv. Thomson, the statement is not to be relied on, as the most characteristic feature of these, the irregular edge of the terminal part of the blade, has not before been observed. The statements in the literature with regard to the distribution of this species, are upon the whole quite unreliable, as we cannot be sure that it is really this species which has been examined in each case. No doubt the statements apply often to Åræosoma fenestratum, and probably also to A. Belli Mrtsn. (see above p. 54—-55), which has likewise been confounded with C. 4ysærix. It may, however, be taken to be probable that its distribution is the same as that of Phormosoma placenta, viz. ca. 1ro0— ca. 1000 fathoms along the coasts of Europe and North America, and across the Atlantic south of Iceland. It is only known from the territory with positive bottom temperature. In the «cold area» it is certainly not found. 7... Aræosoma fenestratum (Wyv. Thomson). PISSE SE gr SE PI KITE pa 3 EPE EVE ØST 8) TA) 17 ETS 2 AES 2) Synonyms: Ca/veria fenestrata Wyv. Thomson. Asthenosoma fenestratum (A. Agass.). — Reynoldsi A. Agass. Non: Calveria (Asthenosoma) hystrix Wyv. Thomson. Principal literature: Wyv. Thomson: Echinoidea of «Porcupine» (395) p. 741. Pl. LXIIL 9—10, LXVI—LXVII. — A. Agassiz: 6. p.75. «Blake»-Echini (9) p. 29. Pl. XIII—XIV. («Aszthenosoma hystrix »). — W. E. Hoyle: Rev. List of Brit. Echinoidea (202). p. 408. — F. Jeffr. Bell: 72. Pl. XXIV. Fig. I, Pl. XXV. The reasons why this species is not, as has been supposed by Bell (72) and Koehler (229), synonymous with Ca/verza hystrix, but on the contrary must be referred to another genus, have been given above (p. 52—53). — In «Preliminary Report of the «Blake»-Echini» (6. p. 75) Agassiz describes an Asthenosoma by the name of Å. Reynoldsi, «readily distinguished from AÅ. 4ysérix by the larger, higher coronal plates, the prominent vertical row of primary tubercles on the outer edge of the interambu- lacral area on the abactinal side, the less numerous secondaries and miliaries and the color of the test. The primary spines, quite closely packed, on the actinal side, are long, slender, slightly curved, and trumpet shaped; on the abactinal side they form one principal vertical row extending half-way to the apical system near the outer edge of the interambulacral areas. The rest of the test is covered by distant small secondary spines». After having examined a great many specimens, Agassiz has later (9. p. 29) got the conviction that the specimens he separated as A. Reynoldsii, are only large speci- mens of Åszthenosoma hystrix; «the differences, striking as they appear, are merely due to age». From the «Ingolf» (st. 89) we have a specimen, no doubt identical with the « of Agassiz; it agrees very well with the description quoted, and with a specimen received from U. S. National Museum under the name of «AÅszhenosoma hystrix», and both agree exactly with a fragment of a type specimen of Ca/verra fenestrata which I had occasion to examine in British Museum (see above p. 53): It is true that the tetradactylous pedicellariæ are wanting in both specimens as well as in the mentioned type specimen; but in all other respects they are quite similar, and above all, the tridentate pedicellariæ are identical in all of them. There can be no doubt that the long missed, at ECHINOIDEA. I. 3 last almost mystical Ca/veria fenestrata has here been refound. It proves, into the bargain, to be common enough, and has only been missed, because it has been confounded with Ca/verra hystrix. The exceed- ingly remarkable tetradactylous pedicellariæ, which would be an excellent character of this species, seem generally to be wanting, probably broken off, possibly originally wanting in some specimens (as in other Echinids individuals are often found quite wanting some kind of pedicellariæ normally found in the species, — for instance globiferous pedicellariæ in Æchznus Alexandri). To be sure, the differ- ence between the two species with regard to their habitus is considerable; but if we examine more exactly the details of this difference, we shall be much surprised to find a great conformity in almost all external features, above all in the arrangement of the tubercles. No other difference can in reality be given with regard to the common appearance than the fact that A. /enestratum is far more robust than Ca/verza hystrix, and that the colour is different. The great difference in the form of the plates in the two species emphasized by Wyv. Thomson as a chief character, is only to be seen in dried specimens, and, strictly speaking, only from the inside; it is moreover, as shown by Bell (op. cit.), subject to great variation. It is only by examining the pedicellariæ that we find sure characters. As the pedicellariæ have not hitherto been taken into consideration, there is, so far, a good excuse of the fault committed by the confounding of the two species. A thorough description of this species is not necessary here, any more than with regard to the two preceding ones; I shall only make some supplementary remarks, and for the rest the reader is referred to the descriptions by Wyv. Thomson and Agassiz (the latter one to be found under A. Reynoldst). The primary spines of the actinal side end in a small, short, and rather broad hoof; this I take to be what Agassiz means by calling them «trumpet-shaped». The structure is as in Ca/veria hystrix, only that the spines seem here always to be smooth, while in C. hysérix they are more or less thorny. (Transverse section. Pl. XI. Fig.8). The spicules are large, irregular fenestrated plates, which in the outer part of the tube foot encompass it completely; in the lower part they are somewhat smaller, and are arranged in four longitudinal series. Sucking disk well developed. The tetradactylous pedicellariæ I have not seen, but as in Å. corzaceum they are quite similar to those figured by Wyv. Thomson for Å. Zenestratum, it may be considered rather certain. that no specific characters are found in them. Such characters are, on the contrary, found in the tridentate pedicellariæ, as shown above. There are two forms of tridentate pedicellariæ. In the larger form, which has been overlooked by Wyv. Thomson, but which I have found in the mentioned type specimen, the blade is much involuted and curved outward. The point is somewhat widened, and has two deep sinuations in the edge on each side (Pl. XIV. Fig. 32), but the edge is otherwise not indented. The blade is filled by a rather coarse net of meshes. The valves are very wide apart when the pedi- cellaria is shut. The base is especially large, so that there is room for a great many muscular fibres; no doubt these pedicellariæ are very powerful. The head has a length of up to 2mm, the neck is quite short. — The smaller form is very much varying as to size and form; the larger ones (Pl. XIV. Fig.24) recall the large form very much, but the valves are much less curved, the widened part of the point is comparatively larger, and the edge not so deeply sinuate. In the smallest ones the valves are almost not separated, and the edge is almost quite straight. Wyv. Thomson has figured one of The Ingolf-Expedition. IV. I. IO 74 ECHINOIDEA. I. these smaller forms (Pl. LXVIIL Fig.7). On Pl. XIV. Figs. 8, 17, 18, 24 valves of larger and smaller specimens of this form have been figured; they are all extremely finely serrate in the edge. They are short-necked as the large form, the smallest ones, however, with a somewhat longer neck. The stalk of the common structure. The cover-plate of the triphyllous pedicellariæ is highly developed (on Pl. XII. Fig. 33 there is a broad, open space in the median line, but most frequently the projections of the edges join in the middle, so that the common series of large holes in the median line is formed); the valves are lengthened, narrow below, rather abruptly widened above. The edge finely serrate. — The sphæridiæ (Pl. XIV. Fig. 14) are somewhat more lengthened than in C. Aystrix. Wyv. Thomson (op. cit. p. 473) describes the colour of this species very thoroughly. Bell (72. Pl. XXIV) gives a couple of excellent coloured figures of the two species 4ysétrix and /enestratum (only the test). As already mentioned he regards them as one species, as he finds very great variation in the size of the uncalcified space between the. plates. With regard to the different colouring Bell remarks: «The coloration of tests, however, does not often go far in helping in the discrimination of species of Echinoids». He finds a considerable variation in the extent and intensity of the colour, and some specimens are, moreover, quite bleached. — I am inclined to attach more importance to the colour as a distinguishing mark between the Echinids. To be sure, bleached specimens are often met with, and they, of course, cannot be recognised by the colour, but fortunately specimens are very often found that have kept their natural colour almost completely, and such specimens are found, at all events, in most of the divisions of Echinids. In such specimens the colour is a really good character, as, according to my observations (and I have seen numbers of living Echinids, as well in northern as in tropic seas) the species have most frequently a rather constant and characteristic coloration. However, I think the colour to be only rarely an absolutely reliable character. As to the two figures given by Bell there is, in my opinion, no doubt that Fig. I is A. /enestratum and Fig. 2 Calveria hystrix. The longitudinal muscles are well developed; I have not been able to find organs of Stewart in the specimen I have opened. Only one specimen has been taken by the «Ingolf», st. 89 (64? 45' N. Lat. 27? 20' W. L. 310 fathoms. Bottom temperature 8?), the Denmark Strait. With regard to the distribution of this species we have only few sure facts. The «Porcupine»- Expedition took it off the Portuguese coast; that it is also found off the western coast of Ireland appears with certainty from the paper by Bell (72) quoted above. Agassiz enumerates several localities from the sea round Barbados for A. Reynoldsi, and in British Museum I have myself seen a specimen (called Å. %ystrix) from Barbados, which is no doubt A. fonestratum. Our museum has further received a specimen from Smithsonian Institution obtained near Florida (32? 36' N. Lat. 77 29 15" W.L. 258 fathoms); it is also called A. kysætrix, but is A. /enestratum. From these statements it may be concluded with rather great certainty that like 2%. placenta and C. hystrix it is found in the whole northern Atlantic, as well on the American as on the European side, and across the Atlantic south of Iceland on the slopes towards the deep. Its vertical distribution seems to be somewhat smaller than that of the other species, the greatest depth from which it is mentioned, being 373 fathoms (A. Reynoldsii, Agassiz, 6); the smallest depth on which it has been taken, is 81 fathoms ECHINOIDEA. I. 75 (Hoyle, op. cit.). Thus it seems to belong more to the sublittoral fauna than to the archibenthal one. It is certainly only found in places with positive bottom temperature. North of the ridge in the Den- mark Strait and the one between Iceland and the Farée Islands it is scarcely found — still less in the deep regions North of Iceland. 8... Sperosoma Grimaldii Koehler. gb NA SETS. En SS so, d 0 Rø DT Kon 9 Kb. ed OU Ey SKS SED RED S D-G DYBET SKETE BETTE ERE fo SEER FFiterature:m RE Koeh ler: 228220 np TO PII MTEte Of this species we have two fine specimens from the «Ingolf»-Expedition, st. 83 (62 25' N. Lat. 28? 30' W. L. g12 fathoms. Bottom temperature 3”. The ridge south west of Iceland), a large one of a diameter of 150?", and a small one of a diameter of 27mm, The large specimen is much bleached, and shows the violet colour only in spots — it has already been observed by Koehler that this species has a tendency to lose the colour in alcohol; — the small. specimen has kept the colour very beautifully. The large specimen agrees, with regard to the actinal side, exactly with the description by Koehler; the abactinal side, on the other hand, shows some deviations, so that I felt a doubt whether it might not possibly be another species than the specimens Koehler has had. So I sent the original drawing of Pl. IV. Fig. 3 to Prof. Koehler, and asked him to give me his opinion with regard to this fact, calling his attention to the deviations from his description, found in this specimen. He has then informed me that in spite of the difference in the form of the plates and the arrangement of the pores on the abactinal side he thinks it to be the same species, and trusting to his authority I refer this beautiful specimen to Sp. Grimaldi. The ambulacral areas (of the abactinal side) are not narrower than the interambulacral ones, but even a little broader. Just above the ambitus the middle part of the ambulacral area is only formed by the primary plates, the inner accessory ambulacral plate is quite small, placed about at the middle of the primary plate; the outer one is large reaching quite to the edge of the area, and often expanding so much, that the primary plate does not reach to the edge. A little way, ca. 5—6 plates, above the ambitus, the inner accessory ambulacral plate increases rather abruptly so much in size, that it reaches quite to the median line of the area, and so it continues quite to the apical area. Thus the primary ambulacral plates are here separated for their whole length; they are of almost the same height from the median line of the area to its edge, and so the whole area looks rather regular"). — The tube foot belonging to the inner accessory ambulacral plate, is well developed, that of the outer accessory plate and of the primary one is quite rudimentary. The two tube feet of the accessory plates are placed quite near each other, just at the boundary line between the plates, and in about the same height; that of the primary plate is placed opposite to the interspace between the two others. The form of the interambulacral plates is also somewhat different from that in the figure of Koehler; they are distinctly bent in an angular manner, with the point turned towards the apical area. The plates of the apical area cannot be seen through the skin, only the madreporite; the 1) The figure (Pl. IV. Fig. 3) does not render all these details of the structure of the ambulacral areas quite clear nor quite exactly, but on the other hand it renders the habitus of the animal quite excellently. Io" 76 ECHINOIDEA. I. latter is very large and broad, and the pores spread also over some of the small plates inside of it. Koehler says that the madreporite is triangular, very large, and prolonged; his figure does not show this, there it is scarcely larger than the other genital plates. — The genital openings are covered by a large genital papilla, 3—4rm long, resembling a tube foot. Prof. Koehler informs me that a similar formation was found in his specimens; he has seen traces of it on some of the plates; but as his specimens were badly preserved he could not distinguish the nature of these traces with cer- tainty, but took them to be loosened pieces of skin. After having seen my drawing he feels certain that they were the genital papillæ. — A similar formation is mentioned by de Loriol (246 p. 369) in the specimen he (wrongly) takes to be a young Åszhenosoma vartum: » from the Farbe Channel; and on the basis of this statement Bell (73) and Hoyle (202) mention Phormosoma uranus among the Echinids occurring in the British seas. Also Sladen (367. p- 701) mentions 2%. wranus from the south west coast of Ireland, as he finds a specimen before him agreeing with the figures and descriptions of Wyv. Thomson and Agassiz. According to what has been stated above (p. 58) with regard to «P%ormosoma» uranus, it is impossible to know with certainty, whether the specimens that Agassiz and Sladen have had, have really been «Pormosoma:s (Æchinosoma) uranus and not /ygrosoma Petersii. As no specimen of these two species has been obtained by the «Ingolf»-Expedition, I shall give no thorough description of them, but only refer to what has been said above of these species. Otherwise it may be taken to be probable that both these species and also the Åræosoma Belli hitherto only known from Barbados, are found in the northern Atlantic on the slopes towards the deep, and belong to the wonderfully rich archibenthal fauna, peculiar to the smaller depths along the European and American coasts and across the Atlantic, south of Iceland. The three mentioned species are therefore included in the following table of the North- atlantic Echinothurids. Table of the Echinothurids occurring in the Northern Atlantic, 1. The primary spines on the actinal side straight, inclosed by a thick bag of skin; great difference between the actinal and abactinal sides. The tube feet on the actinal side in one series. Only tridentate and triphyllous pedi- cellårræy the"former” simply leaf-shape de eee Phormosoma placenta Wyv. Thomson. The primary spines on the actinal side curved, ending invallarsertores maler ho 2: ECHINOIDEA. I. 81 2. The tube feet on the actinal side in a single, almost regular serlesokthektesti very is OLE Eee TER 2 The tube feet on the actinal side in three more or lesseseparatedsseres Eee En 5 oMKOphicephalousspedieellarræ ate Fond RE RER Tromikosoma Koehlert Mitsn. Only tridentate and triphyllous pedicellariæ.......... 4. 4. The tridentate pedicellariæ simply leaf-shaped............: Echinosoma uranus (Wyv. Thomson). The tridentate pedicellariæ with much involuted blade, the point widened in a spoon-like manner with straight, km ehyNnserrate ede er ERNE Rs Hygrosoma Petersii (A, Agass.). SE Mmhelthree "series "of "tuber feet rather "close" together; "the ambulacral areas of the common structure; the tridentate pedicellariæ not simply leaf-shaped. The hoof small..... 6. The three series of tube feet widely separated; the ambulacral areas on the actinal side formed by 8 series of plates. Tridentate pedicellariæ simply leaf-shaped, the largest ones with a rich, thorny net of meshes filling the bladene oo Larne ES SN eee Sperosoma Grimaldiz Koehler. 6. The large tridentate pedicellariæ with much involuted edge; the widened part of the point finely, but irregularly serrate in the edge; the smaller tridentate pedicellariæ of as Irma S EET BUT Eee EEN SE PEER Calveria hystrix Wyv.' Thomson. The large tridentate pedicellariæ with much involuted edge; the widened part of the point is deeply and coarsely indented in the edge. Tetradactylous pedicellariæ may be 7. The smaller pedicellariæ with the widened part of the pomticoarselytsitate 10 the ede ERE EEN SERSSEEE Aræosoma fenestratum Wyv.' Thomson. The smaller pedicellariæ with the widened part of the point of the blade straight and finely serrate in the edge. Moreover a very large form is found with coarsely in- dentedite de SEE EEN EEN NEN Er Aræosoma Belli Mrtsn. Fam. Temnopleuridæ. Hypsiechinus n. g. The test generally without distinct grooves or furrows; no distinct slits in the edge of the mouth. The buccal membrane covered with large plates; all the buccal tube feet are generally well developed in the adult individuals. None of the ocular plates reaches quite to the periproct, which is The Ingolf-Expedition. IV. 1. II ECHINOIDEA. I. 00 nn covered by one large plate and several small ones. The pores are trigeminate, but placed in an almost straight line; only in the lower part of the areas they are distinctly seen to be trigeminate. The spines are rather highly thorny, those nearest to the peristome curved. The globiferous pedicellariæ without any neck; the blade with simple edges, not connected by cross-beams; 2—3 teeth on 'either side. The spicules irregular, three-radiate, The auriculæ are formed as two narrow crests, not joining above. This little Echinid recalls to some degree Prionechinus A. Ag., and together with the latter genus and the genera 77%7g0n0cidaris, Temnechinus, and Cottaldia it may be taken to form a special group of the Temnopleurids. I shall not, however, here enter into a nearer examination of the classification of the Temnopleurids, as I have not yet studied this question sufficiently, but shall only make some observations with regard to the mentioned genera, which I have had occasion to examine. Especially Prionechinus and Cottaldta stand in need of a more thorough description than has hitherto been given, and I have in British Museum seen the type specimens of both of these genera. Prionechinus sagiltiger A. Ag. According to Agassiz only badly preserved specimens of this species are found in the collections from «Challenger». I have, however, seen a very well preserved specimen from st. 218, and the figure (Chall. Ech. Pl. VI. a. Fig. 11) of the whole animal given by Agassiz is, I suppose, taken just from this specimen. Further I have seen a specimen from st. 207, determined as Prionechinus sagittiger; it is, no doubt, a quite different genus. The specimen from st. 218, which corresponds to the habitus figure of this species given by Agassiz, must then be considered as the type of it. Height | Diameter. Greatest Breadth. | Number of plates. I | Dia- (apical EKSERRE Et rer eter = manen | Longest | Sen meter | duded).| Feristome. | "aben | al area. | era area | Gral area. | Gral area | PTE | FU SEE Es: 4 5 RE HE MESS ÆRE | gø 9 4 4 4'2 2 | 32: 8 | (or 8 3'5 4'5 4 | 7 Es SSR HEC 4 3'5 15 3 8—9 | 7—8 | Q 8 395 3'5 | | |IBES 6 Q 6-8 25 ES REST 25 8—9 SR | Q 4 1'8 2'5 2:2 I 1'8 5—6 —6 | 3 T'8 2: 2 | I 4 | All the measures are in millimetres. The interambulacral areas are about twice as broad as the ambulacral ones; the boundaries between the plates are very indistinct, especially in the ambulacral areas; they are given too distinctly in the figures (Pl. VIII. Figs. 24—25). Near the apical area the ambulacral plates are single, farther down they are coalesced in the common way, three and three. Here one larger tubercle is found for each compound plate, and besides some quite small ones above each primary tubercle. The ambula- cral plates are comparatively high, so that upon the whole the same number of ambulacral and inter- ambulacral plates is found. The pores form almost a straight line, but are in reality trigeminate, which fact, however, is not distinct in the upper part of the area; the upper hole of each pair of pores is larger than the lower one. The interambulacral plates, especially above, are rather broad, the horizontal boundary line between the plates bends downward in the middle; the median line of the area is only slightly sinuate, likewise in the ambulacral areas. Each interambulacral plate has a not very conspicuous primary tubercle near the sinuate lower edge and besides some miliarv tubercles' In å the upper plates are almost smooth, in 9 these plates are very richly provided with miliary tubercles. In the adult 9 the test most frequently has an irregular, grooved-netshaped surface, espe- cially between the close-set tubercles on the upper interambulacral plates. The primary spines are in the adult specimens hardly as long as the diameter of the test, in small specimens somewhat longer than the diameter; the spines around the mouth are somewhat curved in the point. All the spines are strongly indented, and end in a little, conical point, surrounded by ca. 6 smaller points (Pl. VIIL Fig.9); the actinal spines end irregularly truncate, presumably owing to wear (Pl. VIII. Fig. 17). In transverse sections (Pl. XI. Fig. 6) the spines are seen to consist of 6 longi- tudinal ridges the outer edge of which is somewhat widened; they are united with each other so as to form a little cavity in the middle, and 6 smaller cavities in a circle round this. The buccal membrane is covered by large plates, which under the microscope are seen to be common, almost smooth fenestrated plates. Those inside of the buccal plates are smaller and quite smooth, and the plates decrease likewise in size towards the edge of the peristome (Pl. VII. Figs. 11, 15). The buccal plates are more complicate, and form a little arch, as it were, over the base of the tube 88 ECHINOIDEA. I. foot, with the opening directed towards the mouth. The two buccal tube feet are not placed in quite the same line, but one a little outside of the other; this is most distinctly seen in younger specimens, and in quite small young ones of a diameter of up to 2—3T7m only one tube foot of each pair is devel- oped at all. Also in a single specimen of a diameter of 6mm only one tube foot of each pair of mouth- feet is developed; sometimes it may also be seen that one tube foot is quite wanting in one pair, rudimentary in another, while both the tube feet are well developed in the other pairs. — A similar feature is found, as stated by Agassiz, in Prionechinus, or, at all events, in a form by Agassiz wrongly referred to Prionechinus (see above p. 82—83). Spicules are not found in the buccal membrane, the small gills contain the common irregular calcareous plates (Pl. VIL Fig. 12), only, however, in the basal part; spines or pedicellariæ are not found on the buccal membrane. The apical area is very peculiar, especially in 9 — a well marked sexual difference being found. In å the apical area is only slightly raised in the middle (Pl. VIL Fig. 9); the ocular plates are small, all widely separated from the periproct, the genital plates are much larger, truncate, rather regularly septangular, only the boundary line towards the ocular plates somewhat curved. Each genital plate has one rather strong tubercle or a pair of such tubercles at the inner edge, the ocular plates are quite smooth, or more rarely with a few, very small miliary tubercles. The genital pore is very small, situated about in the middle of the plate. The madreporite is very little conspicuous, has only few (2—3) pores. The periproct is covered by one larger plate and some smaller ones; in quite small speci- mens the large plate covers the whole periproct. In 2 the mutual relation of the plates is chiefly the same as in å, but the ocular plates and especially the genital ones have been very much elongated and bent upward, so that the whole apical area is raised like a knob. The lower part of the genital plates and the ocular plates in their whole extent are quite smooth, but the inner (upper) part of the genital plates is very richly set with tubercles forming, as it were, a crown round the upper edge of the knob (Pl. VII. Fig. 1). The peri- proct as in å, without tubercles. The genital pores are large, and situated nearer to the outer (lower) edge. Of pedicellariæ only three kinds are found: globiferous, ophicephalous, and triphyllous pedicel- lariæ. Tridentate pedicellariæ are wanting — at all events in the specimens in hand. The globiferous pedicellariæ (Pl. VII. Figs. 19, 20) remind very much of those in «Æchrmus» miltaris. "The upper ends of the apophysis continue directly in the edges of the blade, which are sharp and run out into 2—4 teeth on either side; there are no cross-beams connecting the edges across the hollow inside of the blade; the end-tooth especially large, of the structure typical in the Echinids. The glands are quite small reaching only to the basal part; no neck. The ophicephalous pedicellariæ (Pl. VIL. Fig. 18, Pl. VIIL Fig. 38) have a quite short neck, but otherwise they do not, any more than the triphyllous pedicellariæ (Pl. VII. Fig. 16), show conspicuous peculiarities. It is, however, to be noted that in the triphyllous pedicellariæ the edge is quite smooth. — The stalks of the pedicellariæ consist of longi- tudinal fibres connected by cross-beams to a rather compact reticulation; they are not hollow; they increase evenly in strength downward, but are not widened at the base. — The sphæridiæ (Pl. VII. Fig. 17) show no marked peculiarities; they are slightly spinulous in the point, short-stalked, often somewhat irregular, and more globiform than the figured one. ECHINOIDEA. I. 89 The tube feet have a typical sucking disk, as in an Æchznus, but generally there are only three leaves in the rosette (Pl. VII. Fig. 10). In the mouth feet the sucking disk, as in an Æchinus, is an oval, continuous ring, of a far more complicate structure than the parts of the sucking disk in the other tube feet. The spicules (Pl. VII. Fig. 13) are small three-radiate, somewhat irregular bodies. In the lower part of the tube feet almost none are found, nearest to the sucking disk they are more numerous, and are here often a little branched and larger. No spicules are found in the skin at the base of the spines, nor in the genital organs. The dental apparatus is of the structure common in the Echinoids; on the other hand the auriculæ are peculiar, only consisting of a pair of small processes, not joining above. None of the specimens in hand show indication of any coloration. This little Echinid is especially interesting by nursing its brood — a fact hitherto unknown among the regular Echinids, with the exception of two Cidarids: SZereocidaris nutrix and canaliculata. As mentioned in the description there are in 9 a great many tubercles on the upper coronal plates, and on the upper edge of the genital plates. The spines of these latter are bent downwards thus joining those of the upper coronal plates. By this means a protected space is formed round the knob- like process; the genital apertures open into this space, and here then the eggs and young are placed protected by the spines (Pl. VIL Fig.5). The number of the eggs varies from 3—7; they are about os5mm in diameter. Sometimes they are all in the same stage of development, sometimes may be found in the same individual almost quite developed young and eggs or embryos where the first skeletal structures have not yet been formed. It was not possible, by means of the material in hand, to study the whole development of the young, only a few stages have been given (Pl. VIL. Figs. 6—8). In the youngest stage (Fig. 6) the first beginning of the teeth is seen; the buccal plates are begun, and the primary tentacles may be dis- cerned through a plate, which I take to be the terminal plate (the ocular plate). Between each pair of buccal plates, a little outside, a larger unpaired plate is found, the basal plate (the genital plate?). In the following stage (Fig. 7) the different parts of the dental apparatus are begun, and in some of the buccal plates a larger hole has appeared. In the oldest stage (Fig. 8), in each pair of buccal plates one large opening has been formed for the buccal tube foot, and this feature of only one tube foot being developed, is still found, as mentioned above, in young specimens of a diameter of 2—3rm, and sometimes in still larger specimens. The smallest individuals, in which I have found both buccal tube feet developed, had a diameter of 4r=, In the oldest stage figured, the five primary tube feet are seen distinctly, and the five first spines, interambulacral ones, are begun. In corresponding stages only one large anal plate is found (Pl. VII. Fig. 14), which may be perforated by a larger opening accordingly it seems quite to encompass the anal aperture. Of this especially interesting little Echinid several specimens have been taken by the «Ingolf»- Expedition on the following stations: 9E731(625 sg N. Lat. 23” 28' W. L. 486 fathoms. 5?”1 bottom temp. Bottom [?]). 1 specimen. SOS OR ER 700 Sø Mud MORE; — 81 (61?440 — 27? 11' — 485. — 557 — ? NES — ES (OSSE OS Ga 44 SE ? MEG ES The Ingolf-Expedition. IV. 1. 12 90 ECHINOIDEA. 1. St. go (64” 45' N. Lat. 29? 06' W. L. 568 fathoms. 4? bottom temp. Mud. ). 2 specimens. PROP Ek SP E ASON EOT E GS re VON NE Further three specimens have been taken by Ryder (1888) on 553 fathoms in the Denmark Strait. Thus this species also belongs to the rich archibenthal fauna of the northern Atlantic; it is scarcely to be doubted that it is also found in other places than in the Denmark Strait and on the ridge south of Iceland. On the Fam. Echinometradæ Gray and the Subfam. Triplechinidæ A. Agass. It has been shown in the preceding, how little successful the previous attempts at a classifica- tion of the Cidarids and Echinothurids have been. It is still worse with regard to the forms that are to be treated here. In the former only the species and genera were confused; here not only the species and genera, but also the families have been mingled to such a degree, that species which have proved by a closer examination to belong to at least three different families, have been referred to the same genus (Szrongylocentrotus). The «family» Æchinometridæ and the «subfamily» 7r1plechinide prove to be interwoven to such a degree, that it is impossible to treat each group separately. I have examined almost all the genera and species referred to these groups, and have found the relation between these numerous forms that all look rather uniform, to be widely different from what has formerly been supposed — although these suppositions have otherwise been sufficiently different. The earlier attempts at a classification of the forms belonging here, have been put together by Lutken, to whose paper I shall only here refer:). Gray is the first author, who has tried to arrange the genera into families; he establishes the following system2): Fam. Hipponoidæ. The ambulacral areas as broad as the interambulacral areas; the pores form three separate series. — Amblypneustes, Boletia, Hipponoé, Holopneustes. Fam. Echinidæ. The ambulacral areas half as broad as the interambulacral areas; the pores form arcs of 3. A. With pores at the sutures. 2/esprlia, Microcyphus, Salmacis, Temnopleurus. B. With- out pores at the sutures. Æchinus, Psammechinus, Heliocidaris. Fam. Echinometradæ. The ambulacral areas half as broad as the interambulacral areas; the pores in arcs of 4 or more. A. Test round: S?rongylocentrotus. B. Test oblong: Æchinometra, «Holo- centronotus», Colobocentrotus. In the following time repeated attempts have been made to improve the system, but none of these attempts have been very successful. A short survey of these systems is given here. Troschel (403. p. 297). (No genera are named.) Fam. Echinidæ. Pores trigeminate; mouth-slits insignificant; no ocular plate reaches the periproct. Fam. Tripneustidæ. Pores trigeminate, mouth-slits deeper than broad; two ocular plates reach the periproct. 7) Bidrag til Kundskab om Echiniderne. København 1864. p. 84 f. (Vid. Medd. Naturh. Foren. Kbhvn. 1863.) ?) An arrangement of the families of Echinida, with descriptions of some new Genera and species. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1855. P. 35—39. ECHINOIDEA. I. QI Fam. Toxopneustidæ. Pores multigeminate; the test round or pentagonal. Fam. Echinometradæ. Pores multigeminate; the test elliptical. Agassiz (Revision of Echini). Fam. Echinometradæ. Pores multigeminate — Co/lobocentrotus, Heterocentrotus, Echinometra, Parasalenia, Stomopneustes, Strongylocentrotus(Subgen. Sphærechinus, Pseudoboletra), Echino- strephus. Fam. Echinidæ. Pores trigeminate. (Subfam. Temnopleuridæ.) Subfam. Triplechinidæ. Phymosoma, Hemipedina, Echinus, Toxopneustes, Hipponoé, VECNINUS. Bell (40). Fam. Echinidæ. Group "EL Test'round ”Echininæ. a) The ambulacral plates formed of three primary plates. Æchrnus etc. 2) — — — == - four or more primary plates. Szrongylocen- trotus etc. Group II. The morphological axis obliquely to the longitudinal axis. Echinometrinæ. — II — — — at right angles to the longitudinal axis. Heterocen- trotinæ. Pomel (324). (In this account of the system of Pomel the fossil genera are omitted). Les Echinométriens. Co/obocentrotus, Podophora, Heterocentrotus, Acrocladia, Echinometra, Ellipsechinus, Parasalenia. Les Héliocidariens. Szrongylocentrotus, Toxocidaris (= Anthocidaris Ltk.), Loxechinus, Echrno- strephus, Stomopneustes, Heliocidaris (= Evechinus), Holopneustes. Les Schizechiniens. 70xopneustes (= Boletia), Pseudoboletia, Hipponoé, Sphærechinus, Ana- pesus (= Lytechinus Ag., Psilechinus Ltk., Schizechinus Pomel). Les Psammechiniens. Æchinus, Psammechinus (miltaris etc.), Arbacina (forbestana). Duncan (132). Fam. Echinometridæ. Subfam. Echinometrinæ. Weterocentrotus, Colobocentrotus, Echinometra, Stomopneustes, Parasalenia. Subfam. Polyporinæ. Szrongylocentrotus, Sphærechinus, Echinostrephus, Pseudoboletia. Fam. Echinidæ. Æchinus (Subgen. Psammechinus), Toxopneustes, Boletia, Tripneustes (Subgen, Evechinus). JAWIGregory)): Fam. Triplechinidæ. Æchinus, Psammechinus, Tripneustes (= Hipponoé), Toxopneustes, Boletra, Evechinus. Fam. Strongylocentrotidæ. Strongylocentrotus, Sphærechinus, Pseudoboletia. Fam. Echinometridæ. Æchinometra, Stomopneustes, Heterocentrotus, Colobocentrotus, Parasalenia. 1) Echinoidea, in «A treatise on Zoology, edited by E. Ray Lankester». Part. III. Echinoderma. London. 1900. x 12" 92 ECHINOIDEA. I. Lambert (238. a) Fam. Echinometridæ. Subfam. Echininæ. Tribus. Oligoporinæ. 7%1plechinæ, Schizechinæ. — Polyporinæ. Søpøkærechinæ. Helrtocidarinæ, Acrocladineæ. The characters, on which the systems hitherto established have chiefly been based, are: the number of the pores, the breadth of the ambulacral areas, the slits and form of the test. Desor?) is the first author, who uses the number of the pores as a principle of division, dividing the forms belonging here into «Oligopori» and «Polvpori». In this he is followed by all the later authors (even if they do not use the expressions of «Oligopori» and «Polypori») with the exception of Pomel and Bell. In the essay on the Echinometrids quoted above, Bell has given a thorough criticism of this feature, and has shown that it is by no means a natural principle of division, in spite of the assertion of Agassiz (Rev. of Ech. p. 423) that «this division, although it appears a numerical one, is yet one of great physiological importance, as the mode of growth of the poriferous zone in these two families is totally unlike». I must assert, still more strongly than has been done by Bell, that this division is a quite numerical one, not at all corresponding to the natural relation of the forms. Moreover it cannot be carried through at all, some species having on the lower ambulacral plates (i. e. as young individuals) trigeminate pores, on the others multigeminate ones. Besides the instances mentioned by Bell: Æchinostrephus, Strongylocentr. drøbachiensis, Echinometra macrostoma and other Echinometra- species, I can name «,Særomgylocentrotus» albus and /lrvidus that have also only three pairs of pores in the lower ambulacral plates. Also im young Sphærechinus granularis trigeminate pores may be found in the lower plates, and this feature, I think, may be taken to be found in all polypore forms. When Bell, in his group of Æchzminmæ, uses the number of the pores as a base of further subdivision, I can- not agree with him; so much importance is not due to this feature, it can by no means be regarded as more than a generic character, and I should not wonder, if in some cases it should prove to be no more than a specific character. At all events the number of the pores has only slight importance or none at all with regard to the natural grouping of the genera; Pomel seems to be the only author, who has hitherto seen this fact. The breadth of the ambulacral areas is used by Gray as a distinguishing character. That it is especially unfortunate is shown by the result, as Gray thereby is brought to the uniting of Ambly- øneustes, Holopneustes, Boletia, and Hipponoé into one family, what is absolutely wrong; neither has any author followed him in this respect. The slits of the test are used by Pomel and Troschel, by the latter, however, only as a sub- ordinate character, the number of the pores being used as the first principle of division, so that only the forms with trigeminate pores are referred to his family 77zpneustide, while Sphærechinus and Pseudoboletia are referred to the family 70xopneustide. — Agassiz says of the deep slits of the test in Sphærechinus (Rev. of Ech. p. 451): «the presence of deep, sharp cuts in the actinal system … are simply quantitative characters, the value of which a better acquaintance with the subject will deter- 1) Synopsis des Echinides fossiles. 1855. ECHINOIDEA.: I. 93 mine». The better acquaintance, however, does not grant that Agassiz is right, on the contrary we find that we have here an especially important systematic character. All the genera with deep slits of the test agree also in other respects, as will be shown hereafter, and form a separate, distinctly limited group (that is to say in such a way that not all the forms belonging to this group have deep slits of the test, but that all forms with deep slits of the test belong to this group; for in some small forms no doubt belonging here, the slits of the test are not very large). The group of «Les Schizechiniens» of Pomel is completely correct — the only correct thing in all the systems hitherto given. The form of the test plays a very great part in the previous systems; that all oblong forms belong to the Echinometridæ is considered as a matter of course. Even by Agassiz, who character- izes the family Æchinometrideæ as «having always more than three pairs of pores to each arc», Para- salenia is referred here, although it has only three pairs of pores in each arc; but it is oblong, and S; accordingly it must be an Echinometrid! That the obliquity, however, is a character insufficient for being the base of a family Æchrnometridæ, has been justly emphasized by Agassiz (Rev. of Ech. p. 436). In Szomopneustes there is in large individuals an indication of obliquity, and «there are in Æchrno- metra, in one and the same species, specimens in which the elongation of the axis cannot be traced». — Already Stewart (381) has called attention to the fact that Parasa/lenia is distinguished from the Echinometridæ, «to which family most would, I should think, refer Parasa/enza», in the structure of the spines and the pedicellariæ. According to my examinations that quite corroborate the observa- tions of Stewart, there can be no question of referring Parasalenia to the Echinometrids. And so the obliquity of the test must be dropped as a reliable character; not every oblique Echinid can before- hand be taken to be an Echinometrid. That the obliquity is not the same, the morphological axis not being in the same proportion to the longitudinal axis in all the oblique forms, has been shown by Joh. Miiller:), and again emphasized by Bell (op. cit.), who according to this fact distinguishes between Æchinometrinæ and Heterocentrotine. As consequently none of the characters hitherto used, with the only exception of the slits of the test, have any greater systematic importance, we must seek other characters, by means of which we can set this chaos right. The characters, of which there can be any question, are the following: the structure of the test, the apical area, the spines, the gills, the buccal membrane, the inner ana- tomical structures, especially the dental apparatus and the auriculæ, the sphæridiæ, the spicules, and the pedicellariæ. The structure of the test cannot be expected to yield more important characters; if such were to be found they would no doubt have been found long ago, as the attention has hitherto almost exclusively been directed to the form of the tést, the arrangement of the tubercles etc. in the descrip- tions. The systematic attempts mentioned above, show to a sufficient degree of how little value the characters found here are. One feature of not quite small importance is found, however, which seems to have been quite overlooked by almost all later authors, viz. that in several forms only every other ambulacral plate has a primary tubercle, while in others every ambulacral plate is provided with such a one. Only in Lutken (op. cit. p.87) I have found a remark «that it is not always the case that 1) Uber den Bau der Echinodermen. Abh. d. Berl. Akad. d. Wiss. 1853. p. 128. 94 ECHINOIDEA. I. every (ambulacral) plate has its primary tubercle well developed». He has not, however, used this feature as a systematic character. On the other hand Duiben & Koren?) and G. O. Sars?) have carefully noted this fact in their descriptions, and Koehler (233.a) has recently given prominence to this feature in his description of Szerechinus antarcticus. i The apical area, no doubt, shows some difference: sometimes all the ocular plates are shut off from the periproct, sometimes one or more reach to it. That no greater importance can be attached to this feature is a sure fact, which may be seen with especial clearness from a case as that of SZer- echinus antarcticus (= Ech. margaritaceus), where in young individuals all the ocular plates are shut off from the periproct, while in the adult they reach, all of them, to it (Koehler, 233. a). The structure of the spines does not seem to yield very good systematic characters. Mackin- tosh (265) has given numerous excellent figures of transverse sections of spines from a great number of species. But I do not think that he has found so great and reliable differences in this feature, that it can be used as a criterion of a nearer or farther relation between the separate forms. Especially I think that a greater variation in the structure of the spines of the same species may be found, than is to be seen from the work quoted. Also the secondary spines of the different species may deserve a nearer examination. Hesse (195.a) has recently made thorough studies of the structure of Echinid- spines, especially the fossil ones. He arrives at the result, «dass fast jede der einzelnen Familien der Echinoideen ihren eigenen mikrostrukturellen Stacheltypus besitzt, und dass die histologischen Ver- håltnisse der Stacheln ein wichtiges systematisches Kennzeichen fir die Familien und in gewissen Zugen von secundårer Werthigkeit oft sogar fur die Gattungen, ja fur einzelne Arten der Seeigel liefern» (p. 204). He establishes 6 types: C7daris, Echinus, Driadema, Clypeaster, Soutellidæ, and Spa- tangus, and if we take the families to be of a corresponding extent, the spines may be seen to yield «family»-characters. The type of Æchinmus comprises both Temnopleurids, Echinometrids, and Echinids s.str. He divides them into two parts, a) with the radial septa not perforated, b) with the radial septa perforated. To the first division belongs among others 70xopneustes pileolus, to the second Hipponoé esculenta — two forms that are no doubt very nearly related. Such things prove how little value is to be ascribed to this character. Upon the whole it must be said that the structures mentioned by Hesse will scarcely be of any great importance with regard to the recent Echinids; with regard to the fossil ones, on the other hand, they will, no doubt, be of some importance, as we may always from the structure get some instruction with regard to the correct referring of the animal or the single spine, even if it will only in rare cases be possible to get at the genus or the species. — Rothpletz (346. p. 289) says of «Radioli cancellati» (corresponding to the «polycyclic acanthosphenote» spines of Mackintosh): «Nach Agassiz wåre dieser letzte Typus auf die Familie der Æchzrometradæ beschrånkt, wåhrend der zweite Typus (Rad. radiati) allen ubrigen Familien mit Ausnahme der Cidariden und Saleniden zukåme». As far as I can see ÅAgassiz has said no such thing; in Rev. of Echini (p. 654) he says: «In the Æchinometradeæ we find the concentric rings most distinctly developed»; but that is 1) Skandinaviens Echinodermer. Vet. Akad. Handl. 1844. 2) Nye Echinodermer fra den norske Kyst. Vidensk. Selsk. Forhandl. 1871. p. 23 (in the description of Æcz. depressus [= zorvegicus]). ECHINOIDEA. I. 95 not the same as what Rothpletz has made of it. At all events Hesse is right, when he says that the «cancellate» structure is only «compliciertere Wachsthumserscheinungen an Stacheln seines zweiten Bauplanes, so dass die Stacheln ein und derselben Species, z. B. von Szrongylocentrotus albus Ag. .….. je nach dem Stadium ihrer Verdickung theils zu den Radiaten, theils zu den Cancellaten zu rechnen sein wturden» (op. cit. p. 192). — To judge by what has hitherto been brought to light, we may scarcely expect to find features of any greater systematic importance in the structure of the spines with regard to the forms treated of here. The gills will scarcely present peculiarities that may be used as systematic characters of greater importance. They generally contain some irregular spicules and fenestrated plates, which are in the lower part rather large and pass evenly into the plates of the buccal membrane; towards the ends of the branches they become smaller and more irregular, at last only branched calcareous needles. Common bihamate spicules are most frequently found together with these, sometimes in very great numbers (Pseudoboletia).. Heterocentrotus and Colobocentrotus are distinguished by having pedicellariæ on the gills (placed on the larger fenestrated plates). In SZomopneustes only small three-radiate spicules are found in the gills (Pl. XVII Fig. 13). — The sphæridiæ are very similar; their shape, number, or position can in no way be used as distinguishing characters between species, genera, or greater groups within this division of the Echinids. The buccal membrane may be covered with plates, or naked, and this feature has played no small part in the classification, and will also persistently be of importance. It is, however, to be observed that it cannot always be seen directly whether plates are found in the buccal membrane or not. Often it looks quite smooth and naked — as for instance in Æchrnus acutus — but if a piece of it is cleared in potash or Canada balsam, it is seen to be quite full of larger or smaller, simple fenes- trated plates; only when these plates carry pedicellariæ they become more complicate, and may then be seen on the dried skin. Thus a microscopic examination is necessary in order to ascertain whether plates are found in the buccal membrane or not. Most frequently among the fenestrated plates more or fewer spicules of the common bihamate form are found. The part inside of the buccal plates gene- rally contains numerous smaller fenestrated plates, arranged more or less radially; these plates are upon the whole more simply constructed than those outside the buccal plates. In several species the buccal membrane is almost or quite naked (with the exception of the buccal plates), for instance Echinus magellanicus, albocinctus, Robillardi. In some species small spines are found on the buccal plates (for instance Æc4. esculentus), and in Pseudoboletia, Heterocentrotus, and Colobocentrotus spines are even found in the plates of the buccal membrane outside the buccal plates. The inner anatomical structures are especially little known in the different genera, with the exception of the dental apparatus and auriculæ. These, however, show a so similar structure, that important differences that might be of systematic significance, are scarcely to be found, and as to the other anatomical features, it is still more improbable that here should be found differences of any importance — apart from the fact that it would be very unpractical, if the inner anatomy was to be much used in the classification. Thus we have only left spicules and pedicellariæ — hut here we also find what we want. 96 ECHINOIDEA. I. Perrier") and Stewart2-) have given informations of the spicules in several genera and species, and especially Stewart thinks that «they will be found to afford most valuable and interesting addi- tional points of generic and specific distinction». I must think it very improbable that good specific characters should be found in the form of the spicules; as far as my examinations reach they are very similar in all the species belonging to the same genus. On the other hand I quite agree with Ste- wart that the spicules yield valuable generic characters, and even excellent family characters. — The most common type is the simple, c-shaped, «bihamate» form; it is found in Æchrmus and Echinometra and the genera more nearly allied to these. In Særongylocentrotus drøbachiensis and some other SÉron- gylocentrotus-species the form is the same, only that here the spicules are a little branched in the ends (Pl. XX. Fig. 12). A very peculiar form of spicules is found in 70xopneustes, Pseudoboletia, Sphærechinus, and upon the whole in the forms with deep mouth-slits. They are dumpb-bell-shaped, as two small balls connected by a short bar (Pl. XXI. Fig. 28etc.). In Sphærechinus they resemble more the common bihamate spicules, but they are not at all pointed at the ends. Also a few typical bihamate spicules may be found among the others; this is also the case in Søromgylocentrotus.. Some- times all possible stages of development of these spicules may be found, from a little ball to the form of the dumb-bell, and farther to the bihamate form (Pl. XXI. Fig. 31). That these forms are really developmental stages can, I think, scarcely be doubted. It is evident that a considerable rearrange- ment of the mass of lime must take place; but a similar resorption and new deposition of the lime is already known from Théels examinations of the resorption of the larval skeleton in the Echinoderms 3). The form of spicules mentioned here is an excellent character of the family 7oxopneustidæ (see below). Another peculiar form of spicules is found in Parasalenia and Anthocidaris; they are arcuate, with I1—2 small projections in the middle (Pl. XXI. Figs. 30, 32). Stewart calls this form of spicules «bia- cerate». Also common bihamate spicules are found together with these, but in small numbers. A quite unique form of spicules is found in SZomopneustes; they are of two kinds: smaller, irregular fenestrated plates, and large, thorny, perforated tubes that may be a little branched (Stewart. Op. cit. PISÆFr SS) The spicules are especially found in the tube feet, but also in the skin round the pedicellariæ (especially the globiferous ones), both on the stalk, the neck, and the head, and round the base of the spines they occur frequently. In the gills and the buccal membrane bihamate spicules are often found together with the more or less irregular fenestrated plates that are commonly found here. Also the inner organs are often richly provided with spicules that may be of a very irregular form, as has been shown by Stewart with regard to Æckinometra. "This, however, is of no practical importance in the classification where regard must chiefly be paid to the regular spicules of constant form in tube feet and pedicellariæ. With regard to the pedicellariæ we have some good informations, especially in the works by Perrier and Agassiz. From these informations it is evident that an abundance of peculiar struc- tures may be found here which are, no doubt, of great systematic importance. Thus Perrier has 1) Recherches sur les Pedicellaires et les Ambulacres des Astéries et des Oursins. Ann. Sc. nat. 5. Série. Zool. T. XII—XIII. 1869—70. 2) On the Spicula of the Regular Echinoidea. Trans. Linn. Soc. XXV. 1865. 3) Notes on the formation and absorption of the skeleton in Echinoderms. Øfvers. Kgl. Vet Akad. Fårh. 1894. ECHINOIDEA. I. 97 rightly mentioned as a character of the Echinometrids that the globiferous pedicellariæ «se termine(nt) par deux crochets, mais ces deux crochets naissent å des hauteurs différentes, quoique assez rapprochés du sommet du Pédicellaire». Even if Perrier has not understood this feature quite correctly, his figures are sufficiently clear and good. Accordingly no excuse can be found for the later authors, when they have overlooked this excellent character and in stead of it have stuck to the useless ones: the number of the pores and the form of the test. If they had made use of this character, they might have avoided the many systematical errors they have now fallen into. Beyond the peculiarity of the globiferous pedicellariæ of the Echinometrids emphasized by Perrier, no attempts, as far as I know, have been made to find other characters in the structure of the pedicellariæ that might be used for a limitation of larger or smaller groups inside this difficult division of the Echinids. The reason why no such characters have hitherto been found, is partly that far too few genera and species have been examined, partly that the examinations have not been made with sufficient exactness. My examina- tions have shown that in the structure of the pedicellariæ such peculiarities are found as yield excel- lent characters, by which the genera may be grouped. In «Echinus» miliaris and some other species the blade of the globiferous pedicellariæ is provided with a larger or smaller number of teeth on either side; the edge is not thickened, but thin and sharp, and continues directly into the teeth; there are no cross-beams connecting the edges across the inside of the blade (Pl. XVII. Figs. 1, 7). In Æchrinus esculentus a.o0. the edges are connected by cross-beams across the inside of the blade; they may be few and narrow, or so strongly developed, that the inside of the blade is almost quite covered with the exception of a series of larger or smaller holes along the median line. One or more pairs of lateral teeth are found placed on the thickened edge, but they do not form a direct continuation of it as in the preceding form (Pl. XVIII. Figs. 2, 3, etc.). — In Æchinometra and the forms allied to it, as already mentioned, only one large lateral tooth is found on one side (Pl. XIX. Figs. 4, 13), and in Sørongylocentrotus, Sphærechinus etc. no lateral teeth are found at all (Pl. XX. Figs. 14, 16, 26, etc.), only a little obliquity near the point shows that this form must be regarded as a further development of the pedicellaria that is provided with one unpaired lateral tooth, — not so much the strongly modified form in Æchømometra as the less modified form in albocinctus.. Besides these differences in the structure of the valves, also a few peculiarities in the structure of the stalk and in the neck are to be noted. In most genera the stalk consists of numerous long calcareous threads connected with each other by a few cross-beams; in some forms, Strongylocentrotus drøbachiensis and its nearest relations, it is a thin perforated tube. In most forms the neck is quite short, or, more strictly speaking, quite wanting, in a few ones — also the Sérong. drøbachiensts-group — there is a long neck provided with powerful longitudinal and circular muscles (BIS Fis ss 25520) The other pedicellariæ seem only to contribute little to the limitation of the genera, still less to the characterization of the larger groups; on the other hand the tridentate and ophicephalous pedi- cellariæ yield often excellent specific characters. The triphyllous pedicellariæ are exceedingly similar, and yield scarcely any sufficiently certain systematic character, with one exception: Evechinus chloro- ticus; in this latter some digitate prolongations pass from the upper end of the apophysis over the blade (Pl. XIX. Fig. 29), a quite unique feature. As a common feature may be noted that the edge is The Ingolf-Expedition. IV. 1. 13 98 ECHINOIDEA. I. not serrate, and that the apophysis does not widen to a cover-plate, contrary to the triphyllous pedi- cellariæ of the Echinothurids. All four kinds of pedicellariæ are certainly found in every species; but of some species individuals may often be found, where globiferous or tridentate pedicellariæ (sometimes both forms) are quite wanting or very few in number (for instance Æchinus Alexandri). This fact, of course, is an unfortunate circumstance, but the value of the pedicellariæ as systematic characters are not otherwise lessened by it. If we now examine the genera and species referred to «7%1plechinidæ» and «Echinometradæ» with special regard to the features described above, we shall get a view of their relations very different from the views expressed in the above mentioned systems. The genus Æchinus is notorious for its difficulty. A great many species have been described, but most frequently the descriptions are insufficient, so that the species cannot be recognized by them. One species, Æcz. acutus, is very varying, and has occasioned the establishing of a great many «species», which nobody has been able to recognize with certainty, and by which the confusion has only been increased. But even excellently characterized species, as for instance Æ. e/egans, have often been confounded with other species, what I have repeatedly been able to substantiate; what is hitherto stated with regard to the distribution of the Æchznus-species, must accordingly be used with great caution. The reason of all these difficulties is almost exclusively to be found in the literature: an exact examination of the animals themselves shows that the species upon the whole have rather distinct characters. The following species are referred to the genus Æchrnus: miliaris Miull., microtuberculatus Bilv., angulosus (Leske), esculentus L., acutus Lamk., norvegicus Dub. Kor., Flemingii Forb., microstoma Wyv. Thoms., melo Lamk., elegans Dub. Kor., gracilis Ag., Wallisi Ag., lucidus Dåderl., Robrillardi Loriol, darnleyensis Woods, magellanicus Phil., margaritaceus Lamk., horridus Ag., Alexandri Dan. Kor., a/bo- cinctus Hutton, dæadema Studer, Weumayeri Meissner, multicolor Yoshiwara. A great many older names are cited as synonyms to several of these species in Agassiz's «Revision of Echini»; a renewed exami- nation of the type specimens of these «species» with especial regard to the pedicellariæ might perhaps give other results than those of Agassiz; but until such examinations have been made, we must build on the results laid down in «Rev. of Ech.». Of all the above mentioned species, with the exception of Ech. multicolor, I have had occasion to examine authentic specimens, of Ec4. horridus, Neumayert, and A/exandri even the type specimens. The result is a considerable reduction of the number of species in the genus Æchrnus, some of the mentioned species being dropped as synonyms, some prov- ing to belong to other genera. As the type of the genus Æc-hznus E. esculentus must be put down, the only one of the species established by Linné. Of its characters the following ones must be mentioned here. Only every other ambulacral plate carries a primary tubercle (in large specimens often 2—3 plates without primary tubercle follow each other). All the ocular plates are shut off from the anal area. The buccal mem- brane with numerous small and larger plates; spines on the buccal plates. The globiferous pedicellariæ without neck, the blade with a lateral tooth on either side, the edges connected across the inside. The tridentate pedicellariæ (Pl. XVII. Fig. 20) long, narrow, the edge set with numerous small teeth ECHINOIDEA. ll. 99 arranged in transverse series. The stalk of the pedicellariæ consists of long calcareous threads con- nected by few cross-beams. Spicules bihamate. With this species must be classed Æczk. melo and acutus (under which Æ. F/emingri, norvegicus, and microstoma are to be named as synonyms, the reasons of which will be given hereafter in the description of Æc4. acutus). They are distinguished from Æ. escw/entus by having fewer and longer spines, by wanting spines on the buccal plates, and by the plates in the buccal membrane being fine and quite imbedded in the skin, so that it looks as if the buccal membrane were naked. Further primary tubercles are also here generally wanting in more or fewer interambulacral plates besides in every other ambulacral plate. The difference between me/o and aculus is very slight, they seem only to be differing in form and colour — perhaps they cannot upon the whole be kept as distinct species (for particulars see under the description of Æcz. acutus). The pedicellariæ and spicules essentially as in Æcz. esculentus. Ech. elegans.