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St. 51. 4. V. 26. Otf Eddystone Rock, East Falkland Islands, 105-115 m. Several specimens. 

 St. 399. 18. V. 30. Off Gough Island, 102-141 m. ca. 15 specimens. 

 St. 1321. 16. iii. 34. Cockburn Channel, Tierra del Fuego, 66 m. 13 specimens. 

 St. WS 84. 24. iii. 27. 7-5 miles S 9° W of Sea Lion Island, East Falkland Islands, 75-74 m. 

 I specimen. 



St. WS388. 16. iv. 30. 56° 19' S, 67° 10' W, off Cape Horn, 121 m. 12 specimens. 



It may be worth mentioning that one of the specimens from Gough Island has only 



four rays. 



Amphiura spinipes, Mortensen 



Amphiura spinipes, Mortensen, 1924. Echinoderms of Neiv Zealand and the Auckland-Campbell 

 Islatids. II, Ophiiiroidea. Papers from Dr Th. Mortensen's Pacific Exped., .xx (Vid. Medd. 

 Dansk Naturh. Foren., 77), p. 134. 



St. 929. 16. viii. 32. 34° 31' S, 172° 48' E, New Zealand, 58-55 m. 3 specimens. 



St. 934. 17. viii. 32. 34° 11' S, 172° 10' E, New Zealand, 98 m. 3 specimens. 



St. 941. 20. viii. 32. 40° 51' S, 178° 48' E, New Zealand, 128 m. Numerous specimens. 



These specimens agree perfectly with the type as described and figured in the paper 

 quoted. 



Amphiura angularis, Lyman 



Amphiura angularis, Lyman, 1879. Ophiuridae and Astrophytidae of H. M.S. 'Challenger'. 



Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vi, p. 25, pi. xi, figs. 311-13. 

 A. angularis, Lyman, 1882. Sci. Results H.M.S. 'Challenger'. Ophiuroidea, p. 134, pi. xxix, 



figs. 1-3. 

 A. angularis, Koehler, 1917. Echinodermes de Kerguelen. Ann. Inst. Oceanogr., vii, 8, p. 67, 



pi. viii, figs. 13-15. 

 A. angularis, H. L. Clark, 1923. Echinoderm Fauna of South Africa. Ann. S. African Mus., xin, 



P- 327- 

 A. atigularis, Mortensen, 1933. Echinoderms of South Africa. Papers from Dr Th. Mortensen's 



Pacific Exped., Lxv (Vid. Medd. Dansk Naturh. Foren., 93), p. 354. 



St. 1562. 7. iv. 35. 46° 52' S, 37° 55' E, off Marion Island, 97-104 m. 2 specimens. 

 St. 1563. 7. iv. 35. 46° 48' S, 37° 49' E, off Marion Island, 113-99 "i- 5 specimens. 

 St. 1564. 7. iv. 35. 46° 36' S, 38° 02' E, off Marion Island, 108-113 m. i specimen. 



As pointed out by Koehler {op. cit.) there is some discrepancy between the description 

 and the figures of this species as given by Lyman. In the description it is stated that the 

 ventral interradii are naked and they are thus represented in the figure (pi. xi, fig. 311) 

 of the preliminary report {op. cit., 1879); but pi. xxix, fig. i of the Challenger Ophiu- 

 roidea shows it wholly covered by scales, in contradiction with the text, which says 

 " interbrachial space below only about one-third covered with minute scaling; the rest 

 of the space is naked". Whether this is due simply to an error in the drawing, or per- 

 haps to two difi^erent forms having been confused by Lyman under the name of 

 A. atigularis, can only be ascertained by a re-examination of the type material. But 

 however this may be, there can be no doubt that it is the form with naked ventral 

 interradii which must be regarded as the typical A. angularis. The present specimens all 

 have naked ventral interradii and thus far there can be no doubt of their identity. 



