ME, H. FAEQUHAE OK NEW ZEALAND ECHINODEEMS. 189 



Eed Sea down the east coast of Africa to India, and through 

 the Eastern Archipelago and the Polynesian Islands to the 

 Kermadecs. The present species {E. lucunter) extends to Japan 

 and down the north-eastern coast of Australia to Lord Howe 

 Island. When a thorough search is made at the Kermadecs, 

 no douht a number of other Polynesian species will be found 

 there. 



Steokgylocejmtrotus tubeectjlatfs, Lamarclc. 



This species was recorded from New Zealand by Agassiz in his 

 'Eevision of the Echini,' pp. 165, 451, I am able to verify its 

 occurrence in our seas, as there is a fine New Zealand specimen 

 in the Colonial Museum, Wellington. 



Steongtlocenteottjs etjettheogeammtjs, Valenciennes. 



Agassiz, in the work above quoted, does not give New Zealand 

 in the list of localities where this species has been found (pp. 163 

 & 442) ; but on p. 238 it occurs in a list of S. Atlantic Echini 

 as a New Zealand species. I have not been able to find 

 auy authority for that statement, although it has been twice 

 recorded from the (South Pacific. I am able, however, to state 

 that it is certainly a member of the JSew Zealand fauna, for 

 there are two specimens in the Colonial Museum, which were 

 found near Wellington by Mr. T. W. Kirk. 



Centeostephanus Eodgeesii, Agassiz. 



I am able to add this species to our fauna, for there was a 

 New Zealand specimen in the Colonial Museum. Unfortunately 

 the damp had afiected it so much that it fell to pieces when an 

 assistant attempted to remove it from the case. 



OPHIUEOIDEA. 



Ophiopeza Danbti, sp. n. (Plate 14. figs. 7, 8.) 

 The disc is flat, subpentagonal, and covered with a fine close 

 granulation. It is about 20 mm. in diameter. The length of 

 the arms is about five and a half times the diameter of the disc. 

 They are rather stout, and taper towards the extremity. There 

 are about twelve mouth-papillse to each angle ; they are small, 

 blunt, rounded, subequal, and closely set. The mouth-shields 

 are rather large, roundly elliptical. The side mouth-shields 

 are small, inconspicuous, and irregular in shape. The under 



