Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
In furtherance of an intention expressed in a former paper (Geol. Mag., Vol. LXIII, 1926, p. 143), I propose, in this communication, to give some statistics of the anal variations in 542 cups, all of which are referred to the genus Ulocrinus. Additional details are also given of similar variations in 130 cups referred to Hydreionocrinus. Fifty of the latter have already been dealt with elsewhere (Trans. Geol. Soc. Glasgow, vol. xvi, pt. iii, 1917–18, p. 383), but to complete the survey of the anal area in the four groups of cups for the present, it is thought advisable to include them here. The classification here adopted is the same as that given for Eupachycrinus calyx and Zeacrinus konincki, namely:—