THE 



VOYAGE OF H.M.S. CHALLENGER 



ZOOLOGY. 



REPORT upon the Crinoidea collected during the Voyage of H.M.S. 

 Challenger during the Years 1873-76. By P. Herbert Carpenter, 

 D.Sc, F.R.S., F.L.S., Assistant Master at Eton College. 



PART II.-THE COMATULjE. 



PREFACE. 



The accompanying Report is the result of a study of the Comatulae which has been 

 carried on, with occasional breaks caused by bad health and by the pressure of other 

 work, since the latter part of the year 1875. Early in 1878 Sir Wyville Thomson was 

 good enough to place the Challenger collection in my hands for description ; and in the 

 following year a preliminary account of it was published in the Proceedings of the Royal 

 Society. 



The group had been singularly neglected for many years previously. Midler's 

 classical memoir, Ueber die Gattungen und Arten der Comatulen, appeared in 1849, and 

 laid the foundation of all future systematic work, as well as of the descriptive 

 terminology now in use. Isolated species have been described by various authors during 

 the last forty years, but no serious revision of the group has ever been attempted, 

 though in 1862 Midler's classification was modified in one or two points by Dujardin 

 and Hupe. 



Thirty-five species were described by Midler in 1849, the types of which are scattered 



(ZOOL. CHALL. EXP, — PAKT LX.— 1888.) OoO a 



