28 ‘* ENDEAVOUR” SCIENTIFIC RESULTS. 
the forty-four species, one from Lord Howe Island and one 
from Masthead Island, were not collected by the ‘“ En- 
deavour ”’ but are from shore collections made by naturalists 
not connected with that vessel. Of the remaining forty-two, 
twenty-three were taken only in southern Australian waters, 
that is, south of Lat. 37° and east of Long. 128°, or in other 
words, on the coasts of South Australia, Victoria and Tas- 
mania ; of these twenty-three, nine were taken in the Great 
Australian Bight and three, all new to science, only there. 
There are eleven species from the eastern coast, of which ten 
were not found south of Port Jackson, while one was found 
at Shoalhaven Bight ; only two of the eleven are new forms, 
the other nine being well-known species of tropical Australia. 
Only three species, all previously known, were found on both 
the eastern and southern coasts. There are four species from 
the western coast only, north of Cape Naturaliste, all of which 
are very distinct and highly characteristic forms. Of one 
species, Specimens are present from Western Australia and from 
Tasmania, but the identity of the two is not perfectly estab- 
lished. There are no species in the “ Endeavour ”’ collections. 
represented by specimens from all three coasts, but a few are 
known with that extensive range, such as Luidia maculata, 
Coscinasterias calamaria and Allostichaster polyplax ; the two 
latter are distinctly southern species but the Lwidia is a 
tropical form and its occurrence on all sides of the continent is 
most interesting. Two species, Oreaster gracilis and Ansero- 
poda rosacea occur on both the east and west coasts, but not 
on the south; like the Lwidia they are tropical species. It 
is probable that Plectaster decanus is a southern species 
occurring on all three coasts, but the evidence is as yet 
incomplete. 
About one hundred species of Starfish had been recorded 
from Australia, including Lord Howe Island and Tasmania, 
prior to 1915, but of these some twenty are of very doubtful 
authenticity and ten others, while valid species, are of very 
unlikely occurrence in Australia. The ‘‘ Endeavour ’”’ col- 
lections include twenty-five additions to the list, thus making 
up for most of those which must be stricken from the full list. 
It may not be out of place to add that the Museum of Com- 
parative Zoology collection contains sixteen additional species 
from Torres Strait, and we are therefore safe in affirming that 
more than a hundred valid species of starfish are known from 
Australian waters, in less than three hundred fathoms. Of these 
at least seventy, or more than two-thirds, are peculiar to 
Australia. 
