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Metablastus cottalcli (E. Munier-Chalmas): E. Etheridge fil. & P. H. 
Carpenter, 1886, Cat. Blastoidea Brit. Mus. pp. 202, 203. Lower 
Devonian, Gres de Gahard : Bois Boux, commune de Gahard (Ille- 
et-Yilaine), Erance. [E. 661.] Presented by P. H. Carpenter. 
Two fragments. 
Metablastus hispanicus. Troostocrinus hispanicus , E. Etheridge fil. 
& P. H. Carpenter, April 1883, Ann. Mag. Bat. Hist. (5) xi, p. 245. 
Metablastus hispanicus (Eth. & Carp.): E. Etheridge fil. & P. H. 
Carpenter, 1886, Cat. Blastoidea Brit. Mus. p. 200. 
Troostocrinus hispanicus, E. Etheridge fil. & P. H. Carpenter, 1883, 
Ann. Mag. Bat. Hist. (5) xi, p. 245. C. Metablastus hispanicus 
(Eth. & Carp.): E. Etheridge?fil. & P. H. Carpenter, 1886, Cat. 
Blastoidea Brit. Mus. p. 200, pi. v, f. 21. Lower Devonian, Calcaire 
d’Arnao: Colie, near Sabero, Leon, Spain. [E. 664.] A theca 
presumed to be the type, although 23*5 mm. high instead of 25 mm. 
as stated. 
Metablastus lineatus. Pentremites lineatus, B. E. Shumard, 1858, 
Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, i, p. 241, pi. ix, ff. 3 a , b. Troosticrinus 
lineatus (Shumard) : B. E. Shumard, 1866, Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, ii, 
p. 384, footnote. Troostocrinus lineatus (Shumard) : E. Etheridge fil. 
& P. H. Carpenter, 1882, Ann. Mag. Bat. Hist. (5) ix, pp. 247-249. 
Metablastus lineatus (Shumard) : E. Etheridge fil. & P. H. Carpenter, 
1886, Cat. Blastoidea Brit. Mus. p. 199, pi. iii, ff. 14, 15, pi. xvii, 
f 18. 
-. Lower Carboniferous, Upper Burlington Limestone : Burlington, 
Iowa, U.S.A. [E. 826.] Wachsmuth Coll. Eour thecas, one of them 
crushed and one fragmentary in matrix. 
---. Lower Carboniferous, [Upper] Burlington Limestone : Sage- 
town, Illinois, U.S.A. [E. 8167.] T. A. Worthen Coll. A complete, 
but rather crushed, theca. 
Metablastus? pentalobus. Codasterpentalobus, J. Hall, 1882, Eep. 
Geol. Surv. Indiana, xi (1881), p. 280, pi. xv, f. 16. Metablastus ? 
pentalobus (Hall): E. Etheridge fil. & P. H. Carpenter, 1886, Cat. Blas¬ 
toidea Brit. Mus. p. 198. Stephanocrinus pentalobus (Hall): S. A. 
Miller, 1889, B. Amer. Geol. & Palseont. p. 283; but this not accepted 
by C. Wachsmuth & E. Springer in [privately printed] Index to Eevision 
of Palaeocrinoidea. 
Metablastus ? subeyiindrieuso Pentremites subcylmdrica, J. Hall & 
E. P. Whitfield, 1875, Eep. Geol. Surv. Ohio, ii (2), p. 129, pi. vi, f. 13. 
Metablastus ? subcylindricus (Hall & Whitfield) : E. Etheridge fil. & P. 
H. Garpenter, 1886, Cat. Blastoidea Brit. Mus. p. 198. Troostocrinus 
subcylindricus (Hall & Whitfield): S. A. Miller, 1889, B. Amer. Geol. 
& Palseont. p. 287. 
Metablastus varsouviensis* Pentremites ( Tricoelocrinus ) varsou- 
viensis , A. H. Worthen, 1875, Eep. Geol. Surv. Illinois, vi, p. 521, 
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