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RECORDS OF TIIE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 
Gould’s G . jmrvissima is a decidedly smaller race, and is further- 
more distinguished by its upper parts being more strongly washed 
with olive. A specimen from Cape York measures, total length 
6*3 inches, wing 3 5, tail 2 7, bill 075. It ranges as far south as 
the Herbert River. The wing-measurement varies from 3*5 to 
3 '6 inches. In a large series of specimens examined I can find no 
gradation in size between C . rvfigasier and its smaller northern 
ally, C. parvissima. Dr. Sharpe, in the “ Catalogue of Birds in 
the British Museum,”* has described a specimen of the latter race 
from Cape York under the name of the larger species, Pinarolestes 
rujigaster, Gould. 
On STICIIOPUS MOLLIS , HUTTON. 
By Thomas Wiiitelegge, Zoologist, Australian Museum. 
During a recent visit to Eden, Dr. J. C. Cox obtained a IIolo- 
thurian, which he presented to the Museum collection. 
The species proves to be Stichopus mollis , Hutton, hitherto only 
recorded from New Zealand. At first I referred it to 8. sordidu s, 
Theel,f but on consulting a paper by Prof. A. Dendy| since re- 
ceived, I find that the t( Challenger 7 specimens are considered to 
be examples of Hutton’s Rolothuria mollis. \ agree with the 
opinion as expressed by Prof. Dendy. There appears to be no 
character to distinguish them except that of colour, which is 
evidently variable. 
The colour of the Eden example in formol is light yellowish- 
brown, with the disks of the pedicels and the tips of the dorsal 
papilke darker. 
The large bilateral plates form a ring on the margin of the 
disk and encircle the large central perforate plate at the extremity 
of the pedicel. 
The dorsal papillae are supported by curved, smooth, spiny,- or 
branched rods, disposed transversely ; the lower ones tend to form 
plates similar to those of the ventral pedicels ; npically each 
papilla terminates in a large perforate plate, which is surrounded 
by a series of stout moniliform rods, with either simple or spinose 
ends. 
Length of specimen 130 mm. 
* Brit. Mus. Cat. Birds iii. 1877, p. 296. 
f Chall. Rep. Zool., xiv., p. 162, pi. viii., fig. 3. 
t Jour. Linn. Soc. Zool. xxvi., 1897, p. 46, pi. vii., figs. 73-82. 
5th August, 1897. 
