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strie of an intense reddish brown. The mouth is a long slit, very delicate, 
without any lateral pits. Body reddish brown above, darker on the middle 
line ; below yellow with indications of the intestinal canal, on each side of 
which there is a vascular system represented by two vessels with lateral 
ramifications. (Q. and G.) 
Bay of Islands. 
GEPHYREA. 
Genus Phascolosoma, Müller. 
Skin papillose ; proboscis with cylindrical tentacles. 
P. annulata, sp. nov. 
Body papillose, cylindrical, tapering posteriorly ; pale brown, the tuber- 
cles darker. Proboscis nearly as long as the body, and tapering gradually 
into it ; posteriorly papillose, and coloured like the body ; anteriorly smooth, 
white, with some brown blotches; the anterior end encircled by about 
twelve narrow, brown, raised rings. Mouth with a ring of short blunt oral 
tentacles. Length, about 1 inch; breadth, :2 inches. 
Dunedin, and Cape Campbell (Mr. Robson). 
Sipunculus lutulentus, Sp. nov. 
Body cylindrical, narrowed posteriorly and ending in a pyriform swelling; 
cylindrical portion of the body smooth, faintly reticulated anteriorly, but 
only transversely striated posteriorly ; the posterior pyriform portion rougher, 
especially the caudal apex.  Proboscis short, roughened, thinner than the 
body. Colour, pale brown. Length, nearly six inches; of proboscis, three- 
quarters of an inch. Breadth of anterior portion of body, :4 inch; of 
proboscis, :25 inch. 
Cape Campbell (Mr. C. H. Robson). 
Art. XXXIV.— Descriptions of new Star-fishes from New Zealand. By 
Prof. A. E. Veer. From the Trans. Connecticut Acad., 1867. 
Communicated by Prof. Hurron. 
[Read before the Otago Institute, 14th October, 1879.] 
Tue following interesting species of New Zealand Star-fishes were sent from 
Peru by Mr. F. H. Bradley, to whom they were given for our Museum by 
Henry Edwards, Esq. They afford a partial illustration of the little-known 
Echinoderm fauna of the Southern Ocean. They contrast strongly with 
those of the Northern Hemisphere. 
Celasterias, Verrill. 
Large star-fishes with 4 rows of ambulacral suckers, and large swollen 
rays (eleven in the tpyical species) which are free to near the base, and are 
