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2. STICHASTER AUSTRALIS Vcrrill. 



Coela&teriaa australis Verrtli., 1 onn Acad., vol. I, 1871 (1867), pt. 2, p. 247. — 



Htjtton, Catalog Echin. New Zealand, 1872, p. 5. — Koehler, 1920, pp. 54, 91. 



Sladen, 1889, p. 431— Farqtjhar, Trans. New Zeal. Inst., vol. 27, 

 L89S, p. 202; Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 1898, p. 313.— Fisher, 1922, p. 598 — 

 Mobtensen, 1925, p. 313, pi. 1 I. figs. 1, 2; text figs. 17, IS. 



New Zealand. 



Genu., I MOPHORA Gray 



Uniophora Gray, Ann. ami Mag. Nat. Hist., Dec. 1840, p. 28S. Type, Uniophora globifera 

 Gray = . 4 sterias granifera Lamarck. 



Diagnosis. — Typically 5-rayed, coarse-spined, heavy-ossicled, diplacanthid Aus- 

 tralian forms with one to three series of actinal plates; abactinal skeleton with large, 

 more or less irregular, meshes in two dorsolateral series on either side of the irregular 

 earinal series; abactinal spines spaced, coarse, tuberculate, often capitate or globose 

 and prominent; superomarginals with one to several capitate tubercular spines; 

 inferomarginals with one to three spines; one well-defined, usually irregular, series 

 of dorsolateral plates; adoral carina short, composed of one or two pairs of contiguous 

 adambulacral plates, the first pair conspicuously longer than the second; numerous 

 small, crossed pedicellariae are scattered along the skeletal ridges surrounding papular 

 areas; straight pedicellariae inconspicuous, broadly lanceolate. 



Some of the nine species listed below will ultimately, I think, be reduced to 

 formae. Five species are from the South Australian coast, namely, gymnota, 

 midtispina, nuda, obesaj and wtiserialis. 



1. UNIOPHORA GRANIFERA (Lamarck). 



Asterias granifera Lamarck, Anim. sans verteb., vol. 2, 1816, p. 560. 



Uniophora globifera Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., Dec. 1840, p. 288. 



Uniophora granifera Bell, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1SS1, p. 497. — Fisher, Ann. and Mag. 



Nat. Hist., ser. 9, vol. 18, 1926, p. 198.— Clark, Rec. South Austral. Mus., vol. 3, 



No. 4, 1928, p. 403, fig. 117. 



Tasmania. 



I have examined Gray's types in the British Museum, and a specimen in the 

 Paris Museum mentioned by Perrier (1875, p. 77), now labeled "Pisaster graniferus — 

 Mers Australes, MM. Peron et Lesueur, 1803." I have two examples (one with 

 six rays) from Port Jackson, New South Wales (U. S. National Museum). 



2. UNIOPHORA DYSCRITA Clark. 



Uniophora dyscrila Clark, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool., vol. 35, 1923, p. 244. 

 Western Australia: Garden Island, near Freemantle. 



3. UNIOPHORA FUNGIEERA (Perrier). 



Asterias fungifcra Perrier, Rev. Stell., 1875, p. 73. 



Uniophora fungifcra Fisher, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, vol. 18, p. 198. — Clark, 

 1928, p. 416. 



I have examined the type, in the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle. It is labeled 

 "Xouvelle Hollande, 1844, M. J. Verreaux." 



4. UNIOPHORA GYMNOTA Clark. 



Uniophora gymnota Clark, Rec. South Austral. Mus., vol. 3, no. 4, 1928, p. 405, fig. 118. 

 South Australia: Spencer or St. Vincent Gulf. 



