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radius seems to possess two or more very small tetragonal plates 

 lying between but not belonging to the enlarged pinnules from IIBrj ; 

 it should perhaps have been chosen to represent posterior IR. Owing 

 to the condition of uncertainty I have refrained from completing 

 the diagram and have made the left hand interradius of figure i 

 [pi. 3] the vertical one in figure 4 of this text. 



I am one of a host whom Prof. C. E. Eeecher placed under lasting 

 obligation through his kindly given and generous help. This speci- 

 men was found soon after his visit to my camp in the summer of 

 1903 and T name it after him, not alone in recognition of the eminent 

 position he attained in the science to which he gave his life's labor, 

 but also as a token of personal affection and in appreciation of many 

 rare mental qualities which I came to see as one can best see such 

 things through the freedom of field work by day and at the open 

 camp fire by night. 



Genus rhaphanoceinus Wachsmuth and Springer 

 Rhaphanocrinus gemmeus sp. no v. 



Plate 2, figures 1-5 



Description. Cup small; its hight measured from proximal 

 surface of basals to distal angle of first secundibrach 7.5mm; its 

 diameter measured from upper edge of right posterior primaxil 

 about 9.6mm; that of its base across lower shoulders of basals 

 4nim; that of proximal ring of stem 3.3mm; sides of cup from 

 lower edge of basals to top of radials rather straight and 

 from this point gradually curving to give a somewhat ver- 

 tical edge to cup at IIBi. The more or less narrow depressed 

 margin of the plates is ornamented by numerous fine radiating lines 

 which cross the sutures ; a single large proximal interbrachial pos- 

 sesses more than 40 of these lines, and under a low power they are 

 seen to be rows of fine tubercles ; from the inner edge of this border 

 the plates rise rather abruptly to the hight of about .5mm and 

 become smooth or microscopically granular with a large flat or 

 slightly concave area which shows, near its outline, a marked ten- 

 dency toward suppression of the plate angles. The infrabasals are 

 small and almost completely covered by the proximal ring of the 



