278 Transactions. — Zoology. 



strife of an intense reddish brown. The mouth is a long sht, very deUcate, 



without any lateral pits. Body reddish brown above, darker on the middle 



Hne ; 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. 



Gephyeea. 



Genus Phascolosoma, Mliller. 



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. 



Dunedia, and Cape Campbell (Mr. Eobson). 

 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. Eobson). 



Art. XXXIV. — Descriptions of neiv Star-fishes from Neiv Zealand. By 

 Prof. A. E. Vereill. From the Trans. Connecticut Acad., 1867. 

 Communicated by Prof. Hutton. 



[Bead before the Otago Institute, lAth October, 1879.] 

 The following interesting species of New Zealand Star-fishes were sent from 

 Peru by Mr. P. 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. 



Ccelasterias, Verrill. 

 Large star-fishes with 4 rows of ambulacral suckers, and large swollen 

 rays (eleven iu the tpyical species) which are free to near the base, and are 



