The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology . ls many minor resem-blances, so many, indeed, that one is impelled to ask why Lower Palaeozoic Crinoids of Bohemia. 111 Vletavicrinus is not the same as Bohemicocrinus, even ifV. Haueri be not a synonym of B. pulvereus itself. The last of the alleged new genera from the black lime-stone, e 1-2, is based on an ill-preserved cup from Dvorce,and is now called Zenker icrinus melocrinoides. It is theXenocrinus mentioned by name only on p. 416 of Dr. Jahns Beitrage zur Stratigraphie und Tektonik der mittelbohm-ischen Silurfor
The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology . ls many minor resem-blances, so many, indeed, that one is impelled to ask why Lower Palaeozoic Crinoids of Bohemia. 111 Vletavicrinus is not the same as Bohemicocrinus, even ifV. Haueri be not a synonym of B. pulvereus itself. The last of the alleged new genera from the black lime-stone, e 1-2, is based on an ill-preserved cup from Dvorce,and is now called Zenker icrinus melocrinoides. It is theXenocrinus mentioned by name only on p. 416 of Dr. Jahns Beitrage zur Stratigraphie und Tektonik der mittelbohm-ischen Silurformation *. The authors refer it to the Melo-crinidae, to which family, even in its latest and most restrictedsense, it certainly belongs. They say that it is nearest toMelocrinus, from which, however, it differs in many essentialfeatures. This opinion also is well founded ; but the authorseeem unaware that the genus Mariacrinus, Hall, is distin-guished from Melocrinus by those same features. There isnothing to prevent the relegation of the present specimen Fig. 5.—Caleidocrinus multiramus. Proximal portions of stem andcrown, seen from alleged right posterior radius; the supple-mentary plates of the alleged posterior interradius are in twovertical rows, those of the other are in a single row. This isfig. 28 a of Waagen and J aim, and is said to be grossi ; butnot a single measurement is given throughout the account ofthis genus. The block has been kindly lent by Dr. AntonFritsch, on behalf of the Barraude Committee. In the second fauna the only representative of the (Jrinoideais a new genus, Caleidocrinus, based on impressions in the schistts de grauwacke, , of Haj Hill, near Zahoran. * Jahrb. d. k. k. geol. Reichsanst. Wien, xlii. pp. 397-462, Feb. 1893{not 1892). 112 Mr. F. A. Bather on the Several specimens were distributed by Barrande under themanuscript name, Echinoencrinites multiramus. The presentauthors place it in or near the Taxocrinidse of Angelin,
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