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102 ‘* ENDEAVOUR” SCIENTIFIC RESULTS. 
Genus GONIOCIDARIS, L. Agassiz and Desor. 
GONIOCIDARIS CLYPEATA, Déderlein. 
Goniocidaris clypeata, Doderlein, Arch. f. Naturg., li.i., 
1885, p. 82. 
It is only after much hesitation that I refer these little Echini 
to this Japanese species, but were they from Sagami Bay, 
Japan, I should do so without question. All are small, and 
only eight show the characteristic clypeate spines, but there 
is at least one of these from each of the stations listed below. 
All the specimens agree in a greenish colouration, or at least 
in having a greenish tinge, particularly on the actinal primaries 
and in lacking the big globiferous pedicellariz characteristic 
of the two following species. The largest specimen is 20 mm. 
in horizontal diameter and comes from off Cape Pillar, Tasmania. 
I have compared it with a specimen of the same size from 
Japan, and while there are obvious differences, they are so 
trivial that I cannot find a single good character, nor any 
tangible combination of characters, which would justify calling 
the two specimens by different specific names. The “Siboga’”’ 
took, in the East Indies, south of the equator, a cidarid which 
de Meijere called G. hirsutispinus but which I believe to be 
G. clypeata, so that the occurrence of this species in both 
Japanese and Tasmanian waters is not so improbable as at 
first appears. Fourteen specimens. 
Locs.—Off Port Davey, Tasmania, 88 fathoms. 
Near Storm Bay, Tasmania. 
North-east of Cape Pillar, Tasmania, 80 fathoms. 
Twenty miles east of Maria Island, Tasmania, 128 fathoms. 
Oyster Bay, Tasmania, 20-40 fathoms. 
East of Babel Island, Bass Strait, 65-70 fathoms. 
GONIOCIDARIS GERANIOIDES (Lamarck). 
Cidarites geramioides, Lamarck, Anim. sans Vert., ii., 1816, 
p- 96. 
Goniocidaris geranioides, Agassiz and Desor, Ann. Sci. Nat., 
Zool., (3), vi., 1846, p. 337. 
These specimens are nearly all small, only four exceeding 
25 mm. in diameter. The largest, 37 mm. in diameter, is a 
good example of the species and shows the distinguishing 
characters well. The two other adults (30 and 32 mm.) are 
less typical, but are undoubtedly G. geranioides. Many of the 
