The CUINOlDS of the SOLOMON ISLANDS. 

 By A. H. Clark, IT. S. National Museum, Washington. 



The first paper in which Crinoids from the Solomon Islands- 

 are mentioned was that of Professor F. J. Bell dealing with the 

 Echinoderms brought from Australia to London in connection 

 with the International Fisheries Exhibition in 1883. In it are 

 included notices of two species taken at Ugi, a small island just 

 north of San Christoval or Bauro, the most south-easterly of the 

 group. Only one of these species is identified, this being referred 

 to Antedoii spicata, Carpenter, described four years previously. 

 This record was accepted by Carpenter and included in the 

 " Challenger " Report in 1888. Since then but a single reference 

 to the Solomon Island fauna has been published, two specimens 

 of Dichrometra protectus from Bougainville Island, the most 

 north-westerly of the group, being recorded in the Report, by the 

 present author, on the Crinoids collected by the German steamer 

 " Gazelle." 



Stibgemis Comanthina, A. II. Clark. 



COMANTHINA SCHLEGELII (P. II. Carpenter)* 



At the British Museum I examined a beautiful specimen of 

 this species which was collected by H.M.S. " Penguin " in the 

 Solomon Islands. 



1 The synonymy of this species and of the following species for which no 

 synonymy is given will he found in my paper dealing with " The Recent 

 Crinoids of Australia" (Austr. Mus. Mem., iv., 15, 1911); it has not 

 seemed necessary to repeat here the synonymies there given. 



