Ili, SPECIES. PENTACRINITES SUBANGULARIS. 
SUBROTUND FIVE ANGLED LILY-SHAPED ANIMAL. 
. Specific Character. 
A Crinoidal animal having a column formed of numerous slightly pen- 
tagonal joints, alternately thicker and thinner, articulating by surfaces with 
pentapetalous semistriated markings, each petal being ovate, surrounded by 
an elevated ridge ; five round auxiliary side arms proceeding at intervals from 
the thicker joints, and alternately approaching the opposite sides of the space 
between the angles of the column, so as to form double series. Pelvis, first 
and second costal, and scapule in successive series formed of five joints ; from 
which ten arms proceed, liaving two hands provided with numerous fingers, 
amounting in each if the animal is fully grown, to about sixteen. 
Reference and Synonymes. 
Parxinson’s Org. Rem. vol. 11. Pi. x111. fig. 48. to 51. and 60. 
Kworr.—Recueil de Monumens, Supl. t. 11. c. 
rtefe aus der Schweis geschrieben tm Fare 1763. t. 2. fig. h. and t. 6. 
Locality. 
In Lyas—at Lyme, in Dorsetshire. In black Slate, in the kingdom of Wur- 
tenburg, in Germany. 
Description. 
The Cotumn (Pt. 11. fig. 1. to3.) of this animal is formed of alternately 
thicker and thinner joints. Each of the five petal-like markings on the surface, 
has a subovate form, and is surrounded by an elevated ridge, rendering the ex- 
terior circumference subrotund. 
Auxiniary Sipe Arms. (Pt. 11. fig. 1.) Tn a specimen in my possession, 
from the space between each of the angles of every second larger joint of the 
