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it is out of the scope of this work to treat the Deep-sea forms. 
Accordingly, only the remaining 13 species of the „Index“ are to 
be compared with those of the present list, and, moreover, one of 
these 13 species, Åmphiura parva is a synonym of Amph. ele- 
gans {= Amphipholis squamata). Thus the number of Ophiurids 
known from the New Zealand seas has been raised from 12 to 
41 in the course of the last twenty years. Rather a noticeable in- 
crease! 
That the list is still far from complete is indubitable. We may 
especially feel confident that many more forms will be found in 
the sea to the North of New Zealand, which appears to be an 
eminently rich and interesting faunistic area. Also the Cook Strait, 
which has yielded the first Gorgonocephalus and the first Ophia- 
cantha to the New Zealand fauna, as well as the rare Ophiactis 
hirta, will, no doubt, afford lots of interesting forms, when .once a 
thorough survey of its bottom fauna will be made. Even the purely 
littoral fauna may well be expected to yield new forms, seeing that 
such interesting species as Ophiozonoida picta, Ophiocormus nota- 
hilis and Åmphiura annulifera have been found there within the 
last few years. 
From the Auckland- and Campbell Islands were hitherto known 
only two species of Ophiurids, viz. Åmphiura præfecta Koehler, 
brought home from the Transit of Verius-Expedition by Filhol, 
and Amphipholis squamata, the only species collected by the Ex- 
pedition to the Subantarctic Islands in 1907. Besides these two 
species I have found there Ophiomyxa brevirima, Åmphiura magel- 
lanica, Amph. amokuræ and Amphioplus basilicus. I do not think that 
those 6 species are all that are to be found there; especially 1 
have no doubt that dredgings in the sea off these islands will result 
in adding a fair number of Ophiurids — and olher Echinoderms — 
to their fauna. 
A very noticeable feature in the New Zealand Ophiuroid fauna 
is the large percentage of Amphiurids, 17 out of 41 — and almost 
equally noticeable is the total absence of any Ophiura-spQcles (sensu 
lat.), a group otherwise of worldwide occurrence. It is hardly con- 
ceivable that it should really be totally absent from New Zealand 
waters, and considering the faet that only quite recently the first 
Ophiothrix and the first Ophiaeantha have been found in those seas 
