DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF CRINOIDS, 
CHIEFLY FROM THE COLLECTIONS MADE BY THE 
U. S. FISHERIES STEAMER “ALBATROSS” AT THE 
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS IN 1902; WITH REMARKS ON 
THE CLASSIFICATION OF THE COMATULIDA. 
By Austin Hopart CriarK, 
Of the United States Bureau of Fisheries. 
The present paper relates chiefly to the collections made in 1902 at 
the Hawaiian Islands by the steamer Albatross, of the Bureau of 
Fisheries, but contains also descriptions of new species obtained else- 
where by the same steamer, and a discussion of the classification of 
the free crinoids. 
Mr. Walter K. Fisher, of Palo Alto, California, who accompanied 
the Albatross on the Hawaiian cruise, made color notes from life of 
some of the species on the labels. I have made use of these notes, 
giving due credit to Mr. Fisher. - 
_ Although the Albatross made 344 dredge hauls, the collection is a 
small one, containing only 64 specimens, representing 11 species, 7 
of which are known only from a single example, and 2 more from 
only 2. In other words, the entire collection is rather less in indi- 
viduals and in species than a single haul made by the Albatross in 
1906 in the Eastern Sea, off Kagoshima Gulf. However, in spite of 
its small size, it is a collection of very exceptional interest, quite as 
much through the forms which are lacking as through those in- 
cluded. 
No stalked crinoids were found among the Hawaiian Islands, all 
the forms belonging to the order Comatulida, the Comatulids, or 
Feather Stars. 
The order Comatulida, as at present understood, consists of 11 
families, including about 30 recent genera. Two of the families, 
Thiolhiericrinide and Uintacrinide, each containing only a single 
genus representing, respectively, the least and most specialized types 
of the order, are only known in the fossil state. 
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