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the plates. The pores are large and situated between the contract- 

 mg sides of the ambulacral plates, the concave sides of the adam- 

 biilacrals, and the attaching ends of the succeeding plates, so that 

 they are bounded by four plates while nearly surrounded by two. 



''The oral plates form, in pairs, elongated triangles, with the 

 acute angle directed toward the center of the visceral cavity. The 

 apices are joined by a suture with the basal portions, which are 

 partly separated by a dividing furrow. A single genital pore per- 

 forates each basal section of the oral plates. Dorsal side unknown. 



"Locality and position: Prairie du Long Creek, Monroe County 

 [Illinois], Chester limestone. 



"No. 2479, Illinois State collection of 1878." 



TREMATASTER (?) DECHENI (Dewalque). 



Protaster decheni Dewalque, Ann. Soc. geol. Belgiqiie, vol. 8, 1880, pp. 52-54, 



pi. 3, figs. 1, 2. 

 Tremataster (?) decheni Gregory, Pvoc. Zool. Soc. London for 1896, 1897, p. 1037, 

 footnote. 

 Formation and locality. — Upper Devonic at Walcourt (Namur) 

 and Tohogne (Luxemburg), Belgium. 



Family LAPWORTHURID^ Gregory. 



LapworthuridcX Gregory, Proc. Zool. Soc. London for 1896, 1897, p. 1037.— 

 StxJrtz, Verb, natiirh. Ver. preuss. Rheinl., etc., vol. 56, 1900, p. 203.— 

 Gregory, Treat. Zool., vol. 3, Echinoderma, 1900, p. 275.— Schondorf, 

 Palseontograpliica, vol. 57, 1910, p. 58; Jahrb. nassauiech. Ver. Natnrk., 

 Wiesbaden, vol. 63, 1910, pp. 235, 239. 



Furcasteridx Sttjrtz, Verb, naturh. Ver. preuss. Rbeml., etc., vol. 56, 1900, p. 

 203.— Schondorf, Jabrb. nassauiscb. Ver. Naturk., Wiesbaden, vol. 63,1910, 

 p. 235. 



Palxospondylidx Sturtz, Verb, natiirb. Ver. preuss. Rbeinl., etc., vol. 56, 1900, 

 p. 201.— Schondorf, Jabrb. nassauiscb. Ver. Naturk., Wiesbaden, vol, 63, 

 1910, p. 235. 



Original diagnosis. — " Strep tophiuroida without ventral armplates 

 or buccal shields; ambulacral ossicles fused, but their articulating 

 surfaces are plahi. Madreporito dorsal." Schondorf states that this 

 plate is on the ventral side, and that the ambulacrals are not fused 

 (p. 239). 

 Contains the genera : 



Squamaster Ringueberg. 



LapwortTiura Gregory. 



Stilrtzaster Etheridge. 



Bdellacoma Salter. 



Rliopalocoma Salter. 



Hallaster Sturtz. 



Symjpterura Bather. 



Furcaster Sturtz. 



Palastropecten Sturtz. 



