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Museum, and which I was unable to determine when I went over 

 the whole of the iviuseum series ; the two specimens in the 

 present collection are so similar to it that they do not help to 

 link it on to any of the many described species of the genus; T 

 cannot help thinking- that Pcrknaster is only an aberrant 

 Echinaster. Dr. Gilchrist's examples are from the shore at 

 Somerset West, and from Simon's Bay by trawl. 



From Mossel Bay and off Cape Point N.E. by E. \ E,, distant 

 46 miles, come small specimens of an Archasterid which I am 

 enable to identify more closely. 



A few Asteroids were so injured by the formol in which they 

 were sent that they had to be destroyed. 



[Published qth May, 1905.] 



