30 ‘* ENDEAVOUR’ SCIENTIFIC RESULTS. 
Oyster Bay, Tasmania, are uniformly gray, those from the 
south coast of Australia are pale yellow, about half the adults. 
are pale fawn-colour, and the remaining specimens are red- 
brown. Both the “ Thetis’ and the ‘‘ Endeavour ”’ collec- 
tions show that this is a common and widely distributed 
species, apparently characteristic of south-eastern Australia. 
The careful working out of its growth changes would be of 
the greatest value to students of starfishes, as it would throw 
much light on the validity of specific characters in the large, 
cosmopolitan genus to which it belongs. It is to be hoped 
that some Australian zoologist will soon undertake the work. 
Locs.—Kighteen miles south-west of Lady Elliott Island,,. 
Queensland, 18 fathoms. 
Eleven miles south by east of Ballina, New South Wales, 
27-28 fathoms. 
Six miles east of Sandon Bluffs, New South Wales, 35-40- 
fathoms. 
Shoalhaven Bight, New South Wales, 15-45 fathoms. 
Oyster Bay, Tasmania. 
Southern coast of Australia. 
Great Australian Bight, 80-120 fathoms. 
ASTROPECTEN PREISSII, Miiller and Troschel. 
Astropecten preissit, Miller and Troschel, Arch. f. Naturg..,. 
ix.i., 1843, p. 119. 
Four of the rays in this individual are regenerating, while- 
the fifth is broken in two; the latter, however, has no part 
lacking, and measures 150 mm. in length. Since r=only 20: 
mm., R=7}r, whereas in Miller and Troschel’s type R=5} r. 
In other particulars, however, this specimen agrees well with 
Muller and Troschel’s description, and since their type is said. 
to have come from south-western Australia, it seems best to 
refer this individual to their species. 
Loc.—South-east of Flinders Island, South Australia, 37° 
fathoms. 
Genus LOoNCHOTASTER, Sladen. 
LONCHOTASTER MAGNIFICUS,! sp. nov. 
(Plate VI., fig. 1-2.) 
R=155 mm.; r=50 mm.; R=3r. Br=45-50 mm.; 
R=3-3.5 br. Disk very large, flattened but elevated in the. 
central area and along the radii; rays broad, flat, tapering 
1. Magnificus=superb ; in reference to its notable size and appearance. 
