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The Asterids tell a not dissimilar story : of the 26 species found 

 in the intertropical Australian seas, 3 only, or 11-5 per cent., were 

 found also at Port Jackson, while 8, or 30 per cent., were found also 

 in the western seas. , 



Ophiuroidea. — Twenty-nine species were found in the intertropical 

 Australian seas ; and of these 3, or 10 per cent., were found also at 

 Port Jackson, while 16, or more than 50 per cent., were found ia 

 the western parts of the Indian Ocean. 



It is useless, in the present condition of our knowledge, to appeal 

 to the Holothuroidea or the Crinoidea. 



Table IV. — List of Asteroidea collected by the ' Alert.' 



■^ S* 



, 2? IS 



An 







IS CD 



Hi 



1. 



2. 

 3. 



4. 



6. 



6. 



7. 



8. 



9. 

 10. 

 11. 

 12. 

 13. 

 14. 

 15. 

 16. 

 17. 

 18. 

 19. 

 20. 

 21. 

 22. 

 23. 

 24. 

 25. 

 26. 

 27. 

 28. 

 29. 

 30. 

 31. 

 32. 

 33. 

 34. 



Asteriiis calamaria .... 



polyplax 



Eohinaster purpureus . 

 Metrodira subiuata ..., 



linokia laevigata ." 



nodosa 



marmorata 



multiforia 



pauoiforis 



diplax 



— ~ megaloplax 



Soytaater variolatus . . . . 

 Anthenea flaTeecens .... 



Oreaster gracilis 



nodosus 



linoki 



SteUaster belcheri 



Pentagonaster coppingeri 



-' yalidus 



Dorigona longimana 



Culoita sohmideliaua 



Q-ymnaBterias cariuifera ... 



Asterina belcheri 



calcar 



cepheus 



gunnii 



regularis 



brevis 



Patina craasa 



Astropecteu coppingeri . . . 



polyacauthus 



Archaster typicus 



Betaster insignia 



