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IL SPECIES. CYATHOCRINITES TUBERCULATUS. 
| TUBERCULATED, CUP-LIKE, LILY-SHAPED ANIMAL, 
Specific Character. 
A’Crinoidal' animal, having a column formed of round compressed joints 
with radiatingly-striated articulating surfaces ; from each: of the five scapule 
proceeds an arm supporting two hands. Externally tuberculated. 
Locality. 
Probably at Dudley, in Transition Limestone: 
Description. 
The specimen (fig. 1.) from which I have derived the specific character, 
was presented to me by T. Smita, Esq. of Easton Gray, Glocestershire, through 
the hands of the Rev. R. HALIFAX, of Standish. 
It is very neat and small, indicating, however, that the species might pro- 
pably increase to a considerable size. There is but little of the column left 
which adheres to the pelvis. The costa and scapule have each a double series 
of tubercles, arising from the contraction of the muscular integument in such a 
direction as might give motion to the arm, which is formed of. two joints, a 
common and a cuneiform one. From this two hands proceed, in which the 
number of joints of the first series amount to two, supporting a cuneiform joint 
which, on one side gives rise to a finger, and on the other, to four or five joints 
continuing the hand and forming its second series, on w 
hose summit a cunei- 
form joint adheres and sends off two fingers. 
Externally the arms, hands, and fingers, are ornamented with four or five 
longitudinal impressions, the result of contraction. 
C. Sroxes, Esq. of London, had the kindness to send mea drawing (fig. 2.) 
of the fingers of an Encrinite, from Dudley, which I apprehend belong to this 
species, and as it conveys a correct idea of the manner in which the animal 
contracted them, I have annexed a figure of it. 
