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IL SPECIES. ACTINOCRINITES POLYDACTYLUS. 
 MANY-FINGERED, RADIATED, LILY-SHAPED ANIMAL, i 
Specific Character. 
A Crinoidal animal, with a round column formed of many joints, sur- 
mounted by a pelvis of three plates, having affixed at their upper edge five 
hexagonal, and one pentagonal costal plate, on which another row of second 
costals and intercostal plates adhere. From the scapulæ which rest on: the 
second costals, proceed five arms, each having two hands terminating in 
four or five MEE Alimentary canal round. Base provided with elongated 
fibres. 
Reference and Synonymes. 
Luidii Ichnographia, tab. 22. fig. 4. (bad) and centre figure, p. 130. 
۱ Luwyp’s Letter to Dr. Lister, in Philosophical Transact. No. 243. 
fig. 16. 
Locality. 
Mountain Limestone of the Mendip Hills, and Caldy Island. 
Description. 
It is a smaller and neater species (Pr. 1. fig. 1.) than Antinocrinites tria- 
eontadactylus. 
Its column and auxiliary side-arms however resemble it, and display the 
same structure as has been noticed before. 
The Plates at the summit of the column including the viscera, are similarly 
formed and arranged, but being more muscular offer a few rather different 












