PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 

 U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Vol. 86 Washington: 1939 No. 3056 



ECHINODERMS OF THE SMITHSONIAN-HARTFORD EX- 

 PEDITION, 1937, WITH OTHER WEST INDIAN RECORDS 



By Austin H. Clark 



The Smithsonian-Hartford Expedition in the ship Joseph Conrad, 

 made possible through the interest and generosity of George Hunt- 

 ington Hartford, 3d, between March 15 and May 12, 1937, visited the 

 Bahamas, Haiti, Puerto Rico, St. Thomas, St. John, St. Croix, Saba, 

 St. Eustatius, Dominica, Martinique, Barbados, Jamaica, and Cuba. 

 The naturalists on this expedition were Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt, 

 curator of the division of marine invertebrates, United States National 

 Museum, and G. Robert Lunz, of the Charleston, S. C, Museum. 



The collection of echinoderms brought back was an unusually mter- 

 esting one, including excellent series of the young of various species, 

 and no less than three new species of ophiurans, two of which were 

 recently described by Dr. Hubert Lyman Clark. The discovery of 

 three) new ophiurans in a region so well known as the Caribbean area 

 shows how intensively and systematically the arduous work of shore 

 collecting in the Tropics was carried on by Dr. Schmitt and Mr. Lunz. 



A list of the Smithsonian-Hartford, Albatross, and Fish Hawk 

 stations mentioned herein is given at the end of this paper. 



ASTEROIDEA 



ASTROPECTEN ANTILLENSIS LUtken 



Localities.— Simthsonmn-Hartiord station 10, Bahamas (1, E. 

 5428). Station 26, St. Thomas (1, E. 5580). 



ASTROPECTEN ARTICULATUS (Say) 



Locality.— Albatross station 2420, Virginia, off Cape Charles (1, 

 18334) . 



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