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26. Fromia milleporella. 



Asterias milleporella, Lamk., t. c, p. 564. 



Fromia milleporella, Sladen, op. cit., p. 401, ibique citata. 



Loc. Loyalty Islands. 



27. Linckia multiforis. 



Asterias multiforis, Lamk., t. c, p. 565. 



Linckia multiforis, v. Martens, Arch. f. Nat., 1866, p. 65. 



A very large number of this common and widely spread species were obtained 

 at Lifu ; common as it is, it is always of great interest from the manifold stages of 

 budding that are to be observed, while often it exhibits exquisite galls, the result of 

 the presence of Stylifers. It is needless for me to say anything more, where the 

 Drs Sarasin have said so much, and have illustrated it so well (see Ergebn. naturw. 

 Forsch. Ceylon, i. (1883), p. 73, pi. ix.). 



28. Nardoa tuberculata. 



Nardoa tuberculata, Gray, Ann. and Mag. vi. (1840), p. 287. 



Loc. Sandal Bay ; Loyalty Islands ; Enganin Group, British New Guinea. 



This is another species which was largely represented in the collection. 

 Mr Sladen is in error in thinking he is the doer of ' a simple act of justice ' in 

 restoring Gray's name to this species; that was done, thirty years ago, by Prof. 

 Verrill (see Trans. Connect. Acad. i. p. 285). 



29. Acanthaster echinites. 



Asterias echinites, Ellis and Solander, Nat. Hist. Zooph. (1786), pis. 60 — 62. 

 Acanthaster echinites, Sladen, Chall. Rep., Aster. (1889), p. 537. 

 Loc. Loyalty Islands. 



30. Mithrodia clavigera. 



Asterias clavigera, Lamk., Hist. nat. An. s. Vert. ii. (1816), p. 562. 

 Mithrodia clavigera, Sladen, Chall. Rep., Aster. (1889), p. 539. 

 Loc. Loyalty Islands. 



31. Echinaster purpureus. 



Othilia purpurea, Ann. and Mag. vi. (1840), p. 282. 



Echinaster purpureus, De Loriol, Mem. Soc. phys. Geneve, xxix., no. 4 (1885), p. 10, 

 ibique citata. 



Loc. Off China Straits, British New Guinea. 



This common species was very abundantly represented. 



32. Echinaster eridanella. 



Echinaster eridanella, M. Tr. Syst. Aster. (1842), p. 24. 



As this species is already known from New Caledonia and New Ireland it is 

 right it should be recorded from New Britain. 



