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somewhere in shallower soundings where specimens can be 

 taken alive. 



In Stanley Harbor, on tlie roots of Macrocystis, and also 

 brought up free by the dredge, there were numerous examples 

 of an ophiurid which appears to correspond with Ophiacantha 

 vivipara, Ljungman. We liad previously got either the same 

 or a very closely allied form in great abundance in the fiords of 



Fig. 50. — Ophiocomaf vivipara, Ljpngman, sp. Twice the natural size. (No. 149.) 



Kerguelen. The Kerguelen variety has been noticed by Mr. 

 Edgar Smith, under the name of Opli'wglypha hexactis, and I 

 have called it, provisionally, in a paper in the " Proceedings of 



