﻿MARSHALL ISLANDS ECHINODERMS — CLARK 303 



corded five species of whicli four are not represented in the present 

 collection. These are : 



Eudiocrinus tenuissbmis Gisl<5n (Jaluit) 

 Lamprometra pnlninta (J. Miiller) (Ebon ; Jaluit) 

 Cenomctra bella var. maynifica Gisl^n (Jaluit) 

 Dorometra nana (Hartlauh) (Ebon; Jaluit) 



Earlier records of crinoids from the Marshall Islands are Ste'phano- 

 metra protectus from Ebon, collected by the Reverend B. G. Snow 

 in 1877 (A. H. Clark, Bidl. Mus. Comp. ZooL, vol. 51, p. 242, 1908, 

 as Hhnerometra heliaster) , recorded also by Gislen and represented 

 in the present collection; and Lamprometra palmata, also collected 

 by Mr. Snow at the same time (Hartlaub, Mem. INIus. Comp. ZooL, 

 vol. 27, No. 4, p. 409, 1912, as Antedon drevicuneata) . 



Dr. Hubert Lyman Clark in 1915 (Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 25, 

 No. 4, p. 343, No. 1368) recorded Ophiolepis superba from Ebon, where 

 it had been collected by Mr. Snow in 1877. It has not since been 

 reported from the Marshall Islands. 



Additional species known from Johnston Island (A. H. Clark, 

 Bernice P. Bishop Mus. Bull. 195, p. 119, 1949) are: E chinostrephus 

 aciculatus, E. molaris^ Brissus latecarinatus^ Gulcita novae- guineae 

 forma novae-guineae^ Acantha^ter planci^ Mithrodia fisheriy and 

 Ophiactis savignyi. 



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