252 Annals of the South African Museum. 



LUIDIA AFRICANA. 



Sladen, 1889. CHALLENGER Ast., p. 256; pi. 44, figs. 1 and 2. 



1 have not seen this species but Sladen records it from Simon's 

 I Jay, Cajie of Good Hope and Bell lists it from four stations in 85-90 fins. 



* LUIDIA MACULATA. 



Midler and Troschel, 1842. Sys. Ast., p. 77. II. L. Clark, 1916. 



ENDEAVOUR Ech., pi. 5. 



This species is recorded by Peters from Mozambique (1852, 

 Monatsb. Berlin Akad., p. 178) but de Loriol thinks he probably 

 had L. savignyi. While this is quite possible, it does not seem to 

 me unlikely that maculata occurs as far south as Mozambique and I 

 therefore let Peter's record stand. 



LUIDIA SAVIGNYI. 



Asterias savignyi Andouin, 1826. Expl. soni. des pis. Echinod. de 



1'Egypte pub. par Savigny, p. 208; Rayonnes, pi. 3. 

 Luidia savigni/i Gray, 1840. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (1), vol. 6, p. 18o. 



This fine Luidia, originally noted from the Red Sea, was known 

 only as far south as Mauritius and Zanzibar. In the PIETER FAURE 

 collection however, I find a badly broken specimen with R = 170 

 mm., which is undoubtedly this species, thus greatly extending the 

 known range to the southward. It would be interesting to know 

 by what characters Sladen distinguished his CHALLENGER species 

 aspera from savignyi, for they seem to me identical, but he makes 

 no reference to the old species. 



P.F. 10833. Natal: Umhloti River, N. W. by W. 3 / 4 W., 2 3 /,, 

 miles, 25 fins. \ specimen; adult. 



GONIASTERIDAE. 



Up to the present time only three species of this large family 

 had been taken in South African waters. All of these are in the 

 collection at hand and in addition the PIETER FAURE captured eight 

 species, six of which seem to be new to science. Nearly all of the 

 eleven species are deep water' (85-500 fms.) forms and none seems 

 to be common. Indeed not a species of Goniasteridae is represented 

 in the collection by more than four specimens, and of four species 

 there is but a single example of each. Unfortunately two at least 



