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that the identifications due to Bell are as phantastic as might be 
expected from the knowledge of the other later contributions to 
science from the hånd of this remarkable author. His Pectinura 
sp. is Ophiozonoida picta, his Ophiomyxa brevirima is Ophiocreas con- 
strictum Farquhar, while his Ophiocreas constrictum is the new spec¬ 
ies described here as Ophiocreas longipes n. sp.; alone his Ophio- 
thrix sp. is correctly identified as to the genus. Fortunately, Bell 
did not care to trouble himself with the three other species in the 
collection but sent them to Professor Ben ham for identification. 
Thus it happened that the three species Åstroporpa Wilsoni, Astro- 
schema elegans and Astrotoma benhami are correctly identified, 
thanks to Prof. Ben ham (apart from Astroschema elegans, which 
should rather be referred to the genus Astroceras); but the descrip- 
tions supplied by Bell are very insufficient, and likewise Bell did 
not take the trouble of having figures made of these three new 
species, while he gives several figures of the old and well known spec¬ 
ies Cycethra verrucosa and Ophiosteira antarctica, in order to show 
their supposed great variability. Through the courtesy of the Au- 
thorities of the British Museum 1 have been able to supply the 
necessary figures of these species and to give complete descriptions 
of them. 
Upon the whole, I have made a point of giving, so far as 
possible, accurate and detailed figures of all the species, those new 
to science as well as those not hitherto figured, and of supplying 
necessary corrections to such figures as were previously published. 
I have confined myself to giving ink-drawn textfigures (excepting 
the Euryalids), as, in my opinion, photographs of such forms, where 
the exact outlines of the various plates are of supreme importance 
for the identification, are altogether too often more or less useless, 
and rather tantalizing for the student who tries, often in vain, to 
make out on those figures the characters mentioned (or perhaps 
not mentioned) in the descriptions. Instances of this are found 
also in the literature concerning the New Zealand Ophiurids. 
May I hope to have facilitated through these efforts the correct 
identification of New Zealand Ophiurids, and to have given local 
investigators some stimulus to a further study of this highly inter- 
esting fauna, a study which cannot fail to bring many interesting 
new facts to light, not only additions to this fauna but also in- 
