Vol. 31, pp. 41-44 May 16, 1918 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



A NEW CRINOID FROM NEW ZEALAND, AND AN 

 OTHER FROM TASMANIA. 



BY AUSTIN H. CLARK. 



[Published with the permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.] 



The development of the crinoid fauna of the waters about 

 New Zealand and Tasmania has been singularly slow, for it is 

 not yet seven years since the first crinoid was recorded from 

 Tasmania, and only a little over a year since the first New 

 Zealand species was described. 



At present the following forms are known from these two 

 localities : 



New Zealand. 

 Comanthus benhami A. H. Clark. 



(Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 29, Feb. 29, 1916, p. 48. ) 

 Comanthus novsezealandise, sp. no v. 

 Argyrometra mortenseni A. H. Clark. 



(Jonrn. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 7, No. 5, March 4, 1917, p. 129.) 



Tasmania. 

 Comanthus tasmaniee, sp. no v. 

 (Comanthus trichoptera [part] A. H. Clark, Mem. Austr. Mus., vol. 4, 

 part 15, Aug. 17, 1911, p. 755. — Comanthus spanoschistum [part] H. L. 

 Clark, Biol. Results Fishing Exper. F. I. S. Endeavour, 1909-14, June 

 2, 1916, p. 17 [Maria Island, Tasmania; Bass Strait].) 

 < omanthus plectrophorum H. L. Clark. 

 (Biol. Results Fishing Exper. F. I. S. Endeavour, 1909-14, June 2, 1916, 

 p. 15 [Bass Strait]. ) 

 Comissia spanoschistum (H. L. Clark). 

 ( Comanthus spanoschistum [part] H. L. Clark, Biol. Results Fishing 

 Exper. F. I. S. Endeavour, 1909-14, p. 17 [Maria Island, Tasmania; 

 Bass Strait].) 

 Austrometra thetidis (H. L. Clark). 



(Biol. Besults Fishing Exper. F. I. S. Endeavour, 1909-14, p. 22 [Bass 

 Strait].) 



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