188 ME. H. "PARQUHAE OK l^'EW ZEALAND ECHINODEEMS. 



EvECHiNrs CHLOEOTicus, Vulenciennes. (Plate 14. fig. 9.) 

 Professor Jeffrey Bell, who has exceptional opportunities of 

 studying the great variations of many Echinoderms, will not be 

 surprised to learn that the two small specimens of Evechinus 

 in the British Museum, for which he erected his new species 

 E. rarituherculatus (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) xx. p. 403), are 

 but young individuals of the common New Zealand form 

 IE. chloroticus. I have carefully examined a number of young 

 specimens, and I find that they vary a good deal, some of 

 them agreeing well with Prof. Bell's figures. The description, 

 however, appears to be somewhat mixed, ambulacral having been 

 substituted for adambulacral, and vice versa. The largest 

 examj)le of this species that I have seen is in the Colonial 

 Museum : the height of the test is 93 mm., the diameter 145 mm., 

 and the longest spine 40 mm. 



Teipfetistes yaeiegatus, Klein. 



Two very fine examples of this exceedingly variable and widely 

 distributed species were collected by Mr. Danby at Eaoul 

 Island. They differ remarkably from the specimens described by 

 Agassiz in his great work, ' The Eevision of the Echini;' but 

 correspond more nearly with those from Mauritius described by 

 M. de Loriol (Memoires Soc. Phys. de Geneve, xxviii. No. 8, 

 p. 25, 1883). The general form of the Kermadec specimens is 

 much depressed, roundly subpentagonal seen from above, actinal 

 surface flat. The poriferous zones are somewhat sunken on the 

 actinal surface ; but above the ambitus the whole ambulacral 

 areas are swollen. The actinal cuts are narrow, but deep and 

 well defined. The dimensions are about the same in both spe- 

 cimens : — Height 57 mm. ; diameter 114 mm. ; diameter of ab- 

 actinal system 18 mm. ; diameter of actinal system 27 '3 mm. ; 

 width of poriferous zone at the ambitus 9 mm. ; length of longest 

 spine 20 mm. 



EcHiNOMETEA LUCUNTEE, LesTce. 



A specimen of this species from the Kermadec Islands has 

 been presented to the Colonial Museum, Wellington, by Mr. H. 

 Travers. Both the Echinoids which have been found at the 

 Kermadecs belong to the order of regular Echini (Desmosticha), 

 and both are very variable and v;idely ranging forms. Their 

 areas of distribution are almost the same, extending from the 



