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recorded hitherto from the African coast. The calcareous tables 

 form a very uniform layer, making the surface of the body slightly 

 rough to the touch and the epidermis quite brittle. 



HOLOTHURIA LEUCOSPILOTA. 



Stichopus (Gijmnochirotd] leucospilota Brandt, 1835. Prod. Descr. 



Anim,, p. 251. 



Holothuria leucospilota Lamport. 1885. Die Seewalzen, p. 71. 

 Holothuria vagabunda Selenka, 1867. Zeits. f. w. Zool., vol. XVII, 

 p. 334; pi. XIX. tigs. 75, 7(3. 



Although Lampert cannot bring himself to abandon the universally 

 used name, given by Selenka, for the earlier and often inappropriate 

 name of Brandt, nevertheless he publishes the combination Holothuria 

 leucospilota and ' seems to have been the first writer to do so. It is 

 of course regrettable to have to abandon the name vagabunda but 

 after all, very few zoologists indeed are acquainted with the specific 

 names of holothurians and the abandonment of one in favour of 

 another causes exceedingly little inconvenience. There is no valid 

 reason therefore for not using the correct name. 



Of this well-known and wide-spread Indo-Pacific species, long- 

 known from Mozambique, there are five specimens in the present 

 collection, one of which is from either Mozambique or Natal (coll. 

 K. H. Barnard), while the other four are said to be from Durban. 

 They are very greatly contracted and in poor condition but there is 

 little reason to doubt their identity. The range of the species is thus 

 extended far to the southward along the coast. But Mr. Barnard* 

 did not find the species at Delagoa Bay. 



HOLOTHURIA PARDALIS. 

 Selenka, 1867. Zeits. f. w. Zool., vol, XVII, p. 336; pi. XIX, fig. 85. 



There is a single specimen of this common Indo-Pacific species in 

 the present collection. There is no means of determining whether 

 it is from Mozambique, as seems probable, or from Natal. (Coll. 

 K. H. Barnard). 



HOLOTHURIA IMPATIENS. 



Fistularia impatiens Forskfil, 1775. Desc. Anim., p. 121 ; pi. 39. 



1776, Icon. Rev. Nat., pi. XXXIX, fig. B. 

 Holothuria impatiens Gmelin, 1790. Syst. Nat. Linn. ed. XIII, p. 3142. 



This very common tropicopolitan species has long been known 

 from Mozambique. The single poor specimen in the present collection 



