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land Ophiuroid fauna for the nøxt nearly 30 years are duø solely 
to the efforts of H. Farquhar, who in a series of papers, pub- 
lished mainly in the Transactions of the N. Z. Institute, describes 
several species new to science from.New Zealand waters, corrects 
former identifications of New Zealand species, records species hith- 
erto not found in New Zealand waters or rejects species wrongly 
included in the New Zealand fauna. 
In 1894 he describes Amphiura rosea n. sp. from Wellington 
Harbour. In 1895 Ophiomyxa australis Ltk. is recorded from New 
Zealand, and Huttons Ophionereis fasciata is declared identical 
with the Australian Ophionereis Schayeri M. & Tr., while Ophiothrix 
coerulea Hutton is rejected from the New Zealand fauna, being from 
Fiji. In 1897 ) Farquhar describes the new species Amphiura 
pusilla, and Amphiura elegans (= Amphipholis squamata) is recorded 
from New Zealand. His next paper, 1898,") contains only the data 
up to that time, giving no new additions to the New Zealand 
Ophiuroid fauna. Next follow the descriptions of these new species; 
Ophioplocus Huttoni (1899), Ophiocreas constricfus (\900), Amphiura 
asier (1901), Ophiactis nomentis (1907), Ophiocoma bollonsi (1908) 
and finally Amphiura arenaria (1913). 
In 1907 Koehler described in his “Revision de la collection 
des Ophiures du Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Paris’’^) an Oph- 
iurid, Amphiura præfecia, from Campbell Island and another, Am¬ 
phiura basilica, from East Cape, New Zealand, both oP them brought 
home by M. Fil hol, from the Transit of Venus-Expedition in 1874, 
but which had remained undescribed till then. — The Trawling Ex- 
pedition of the New Zealand Government, 1907, brought to light 
two more Ophiurids new to science, viz. Astrotoma Waitei and Am¬ 
phiura noræ, described by Ben ham in 1909;^) no other forms 
were added by this expedition to the New Zealand Ophiuroid fauna. 
1) H. Farquhar. A contribution to the history of New Zealand Echino- 
derms. Journ. Linn. Soc. London. Zoology. XXVI. p. 186—198. 
-) H. Farquhar. On the Echinoderm Fauna oP New Zealand. Proc. Linn. 
Soc. N. S. Wales. 1898. 
3) Buil. sc. de la France et de la Belgique. XLI. 
Scientific Results of the New Zealand Government Trawling Expedition 
1907. Echinoderma, by W. B. Benham. Rec. Canterbury Mus Vol I 
No. 2. 1909. 
