252 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



DESCRIPTIOIVS OF NEW SPECIES OE CABBON1FEBOU8 INVEBTE- 



BBATE FOSSII.S. 



By C. A. WHITE. 



The fossils herein described are among the collections of the JS^ational 

 Museum. The coral was obtained by Prof. O. St. John in the Black- 

 foot Eange of mountains, southward from the Yellowstone National 

 Park, in the summer of 1877, while prosecuting his w^ork as geologist of 

 one of the parties of the survey then in charge of Dr. F. V. Hayden. 

 The spines of Archwocidaris are a part of a small collection of Upper 

 Coal Measure fossils sent by Mr. Frank M. Diniuny from Tecumseh, 

 Nebraska. The four species of crinoids, here described as new, consti- 

 tute part of a collection which has been for several years in the cases of 

 the Museum, the donor of which collection is unfortunately unknown. 

 The only label accompanying the fossils contained only the following 

 inscription: "From thirty miles west of Humboldt, Kansas." The 

 place thus indicated, as determined by a Land-Oflice map, is in the val- 

 ley of one of the upper branches of Verdigris River, a tributary of Ar- 

 kansas Eiver. Besides the four new species just mentioned, those enu- 

 merated with them in the following list constitute this interesting col- 

 lection : 



1. Platyceras nehrascensis, Meek. 



2. Pinna peracuta, Shumard? 



3. Terehratula millipunctata, Hall. 



4. Spirifer cameratus, Morton. 



5. Spirifer {Martinia) Uneatus, Martin. 



6. Spirifer {Martinia) planoconvexus, Shumard. 



7. Spiriferina Jcentiichensis, Shumard. 



8. Spirigera suhtilita, Hall. 



9. Betzia mormonii, Marcou. 



10. Eemipronites crassus, Meek and Hayden. 



11. MeeJcella striatocostata, Cox. 



12. Productus semireticulatus, Martin. 



13. .Productus punctatus, Martin. 



14. Productus longispinus, Sowerby. 



15. Productus nehrascensis, Owen. 



16. Oyathaxonia distorta, Worthen. 



17. Fistulipora nodulifera, Meek. 



18. Bhomhipora lepidodendroides, Meek. 



19. Glauconome ? 



20. Lecytliiocrinus olUculceformis, sp. nov. 



21. Cyathocrinus stillativus, sp. nov. 



22. Erisocrinus typus, Meek and Worthen. 



23. Erisocrinus pla^ius, sp. nov. 



24. Ehodocrinus vesperalis, sp. nov. 



Besides these there were fragments of three other species of crinoids 



