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short, club shaped spines each of which is usually accompanied on 
the side nearest the groove by three smaller and more slender 
club-shaped spines. 
The marginal plates are not evident externally and thus the 
species would appear to belong to the order Cryptozonia as de- 
fined by Sladen in his Asteroidea of the Challenger Expedition, 
but I am unable to place it in any of the families defined by him, 
A single specimen allied to Lwidiza and another to Archaster 
complete the list of Asteroidea which we obtained from Hauraki 
Gulf. 
Among the serpent stars a small species was represented by 
several specimens from a depth of about eighteen fathoms off 
Cape Coville. It appears to belong to the genus Ophiozona and 
has a spread of about an inch and a half. The dorsal surface of 
the disk is covered with large, irregular, protuberant plates like 
cobblestones, big and little mixed together without any apparent 
regularity, the radial shields appearing like the other plates but 
larger, and between each pair is a series of linear rounded plates 
ending in a transverse row of three at the distal end of the radials. 
The upper plates are undivided and imbricated as are the lower 
ones. There are teeth and mouth papille but no tooth papille and 
the side mouth shields do not meet at the point of the jaw. The 
arm spines are short, lying parallel to the side arm plates and are 
usually three or four in number. Tentacle scales are single, thick, 
oval. The genital slits are so concealed by the plates that they 
can not be seen without dissection. The preserved specimens are 
light gray with the arms obscurely barred with light red. 
Another serpent star from the same locality had a leathery dise 
like Ophiocoma but I could not make out any mouth papille. 
The serpent stars were usually badly mangled by the trawl and 
in poor condition for study. 
Some very fine, simple-armed basket-fish were brought in to the 
fish market at Auckland and turned over to me. They were 
attached to gorgonian and antipatharian corals, as is so frequently 
the ease with this interesting group. One was very strikingly 
colored, the arms sharply ringed with very dark brown, almost 
black, and narrow red bands; and the dise marked by sharp 
radiating lines of light red on an almost black background. The 
arms seem to be unbranched to the very tips and are exceedingly 
stiff and wiry, not at all like the flabby Ophiocreas of West Indian 
waters. There is a series of furrows alternating with the radiat- 
