SEA LILIES, STARFISHES, ETC.—CLARK. Mei. 
water four hundred fathoms or more in depth, while half a 
dozen others are of doubtful authenticity. The “ Endeavour” 
collection contains three hundred specimens of twenty-six 
species, of which five are new to science and three have not 
previously been recorded from Australia. There are several 
other species, previously known from the Torres Strait region 
which are now recorded for the first time from southern 
Queensland or New South Wales. Undoubtedly the best 
feature of the collection is the notable series of Astroconus 
australis, but all the Trichasterids and Gorgonocephalids are 
of great interest. The complete absence of ten or a dozen 
well-known Port Jackson brittle-stars is rather remarkable. 
Of the one hundred and twenty-three Ophiurans now known 
from Australia, at least sixty are not known from elsewhere. 
Family OPHIOMYXIDi. 
Genus OpHtiomyxa, Miller and Troschel. 
OPHIOMYXA AUSTRALIS, Liitken. 
Ophiomyxa australis, Liitken, Add. ad. Hist. Oph., pt. iii., 
1869, p. 45. 
These specimens range in disk-diameter from 15 to 25 mm. 
Several have the arms more or less distinctly banded, indicating 
a diversity of colour in life similar to that shown by the West 
Indian species, O. flacirda. Fourteen specimens. 
Locs.—Twenty miles east-south-east of Tasman Head, 
‘Tasmania, 80-85 fathoms. 
East of Maria Island, Tasmania, 78 fathoms. 
North-east of Cape Pillar, Tasmania, 80 fathoms. 
Forty miles west of Kingston, South Australia, 30 fathoms. 
Genus OpHIoByRsa, Lyman. 
OPHIOBYRSA RUDIS, Lyman. 
Ophiobyrsa rudis, Lyman, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard, 
v., 1878, p. 131. 
This is a good series of this relatively little-known species, 
but they exhibit little diversity. The disk-diameter ranges 
from 9 to 27 mm. The colour is yellow-brown of diverse 
shades, the arms often with narrow darker bands. Seven 
specimens. 
Locs.—East of Maria Island, Tasmania, 78 fathoms. 
