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eggs ripen one after another, and consequently must be laid one 
after another, is not in favour of assuming that some sort of care 
of the brood exists, the rule in other Echinoderms which protect 
their brood being that the eggs are laid simultaneously. 
The species was First found at Campbell Island by Fil hol, 
the single specimen secured by him remaining undescribed until 
Koehler undertook a revision of the Ophiuroid-Collection of the 
Paris Museum (1907). Through the present author’s researches it has 
now'been shown to occur aiso at the Auckland Islands. The faet that 
it has not been found in other localities would seem to indicate 
that it is endemic to the subantarctic region of New Zealand. 
22. Amphiuva asier Farquhar. 
Figs. 18—19. 
Amphiura aster. Farquhar. 1901. Description ofa new Ophiurid. Trans. 
N. Z. Inst. XXXIII. 
Fig. 18. Aiuphiurci aster Fartjuhar. — 1. Part of dorsal side; 2. four armjoints from 
middle ofarm, dorsal side; 3. various forms of moiithshields; 4. two armjoints, from 
another specimen, dorsal side ; 5. two dorsal plates from yet another specimen. 
