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hand are quite so large, comparison with them fails to reveal 

 a single character by which this specimen can be distin- 

 guished from them. It is hard to beHeve that a Japanese 

 species, not yet known from the East Indies or northern 

 Austraha, should occur in Shoalhaven Bight, New South 

 Wales, but this specimen seems to prove it. There is no 

 chance for a misplaced label, for in this case the metal 

 number is not only wired on to the test, but the wire is firmly 

 rusted in ! I have tried to convince myself that the specimen 

 is an aberrant example of C. australasice, but if that is the 

 case the characters by which species in the genus are at 

 present separated, are simply worthless, and we might as 

 well call all Australian and all Japanese Clypeasters by a 

 single name ! I have also tried to find at least one character 

 which would serve to distinguish this Austrahan specimen 

 from the Japanese species, but I have not succeeded, and I 

 am therefore obliged to record it as C. tnrescens. 



Loc. — Shoalhaven Bight, New South Wales, 15-45 fathoms. 



Family LAGANID^. 

 Genus Peronella, Gray. 

 Peronella lesueuri {Agassiz). 

 Laganum lesueuri, Agassiz, Mon. Scut., 1841, p. 116. 

 Peronella lesueuri, A. Agassiz, Rev. Ech., pt. 1, 1872, p. 148. 



These are notably large individuals, and it is a pity that 

 there is no record of either the locality or the depth. The 

 largest one is 137 mm. long, 124 mm. wide, and only 12 mm. 

 high ; the petaloid area is nearly .60 of test length, but the 

 marginal thickness of the test is less than .03 of the length ! 

 The smallest specimen is 100 mm. long. There is little 

 diversity in shape ; the narrowest specimen has the width 

 .86 of the length, while in the widest it is .96. 



Loc. — Off the coast of Queensland. Nineteen specimens. 



Family FIBULAR IIDiE. 



Genus Echinocyamus, Leske. 



Echinocyamus platytatus, H. L. Clark. 



Echinocyamus platytatus, H. L. Clark, Mem. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool. Harvard, xlvi., 1914, p. 63. 



There is no doubt of the genus of these small pieces, but 

 the reference to E. platytatus involves more uncertainty. I 

 think it safe, however, to consider them that Victorian 

 sp«^f^ies. 



Loc. — Between Devonport and Launceston, Tasmania. 



