ON A COLLECTION OF RECENT CRINOIDS FROM THE 

 PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 



By Austin Hobart Clark, 



Collaborator, Division of Marine Invertebrates, U. /S. National Museum. 



The second consignment of crinoids received from the United 

 States Fisheries steamer Albatross., now working among the Philip- 

 pine Islands, proves to be a collection of very considerable interest, 

 and well worth a separate report. The first consignment included 

 fifty-two species, four of which, however, were laid aside until addi- 

 tional material could be obtained for comparison ; these are described 

 herein. The present lot contains twenty-nine species, fifteen of 

 which (or about half) were not met with before, while of the species 

 represented in the first lot thirty-one (more than half) are not in- 

 cluded. A few of the Challenger species yet remain to be rediscov- 

 ered, while several genera, known from both north and south of the 

 islands, have not as yet been discovered there. 



Endoxoeriims alternicimis has been rediscovered for the first time, 

 and Hypalocrinus naresia^ius, dredged by the Challenger and the 

 Siboga, has been again found. Metaci^inus wymllii., Imown from the 

 Kermadec and Ki islands, proves to occur also in the Philippines, 

 while a peculiar comatulid type, first found off the Meangis Islands 

 and later at South Africa, is represented in the collection. 



Family COMASTERID^^. 



Genus COMASTER L. Agassiz. 



COMASTER SENTOSA (P. H. Carpsnter). 



Obtained at station 5249, Rakiputan Strait, between the northern 

 end of Samal Island and the west coast of Davao Bay ; 23 fathoms. 



COMASTER MULTIRADIATA (Linnaeus). 



A Single specimen from station 5249, Rakiputan Strait, between 

 the northern end of Samal Island and the west coast of Davao 

 Bay; 23 fathoms; has 20 arms (all the II Br series present), with 



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