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rather considerably in shape (Fig. 20. 2-5). As remarked by Far- 
quhar there is not rarely only one tentacle scale at some of the 
proximal pores. 
The numerous specimens from off Tiri-Tiri have nearly all of 
them lost their original reddish colour on being preserved in alco- 
hol; only a few of them have remained much darker than the rest. 
The eggs are small, ca. 0,o7—0,o8 mm, which faet tends to 
indicate that this species will prove to have a typical Ophiopluteus- 
larva. 
The species having hitherto been recorded only from Wellington 
Harbour and Foveaux Strait (H. Lym. Clark, op. cit.), it is of 
interest to find it so widely distributed in the New Zealand seas, 
in some places even oceurring in great numbers. 
The species mentioned and figured by H. L. Clark in his 
Catalogue of the Recent Oph. (loc. cit.) under the name of Am- 
phiiira parva Hutton is not that species (which latter has been 
shown by B e n h a m to be Åmphipholis squamata) but Åmphiura 
rosea Farqu. I can State this, having had, through the kindness of 
my friend H. L. Clark, one of his specimens for examination. 
Farquhar thinks this species nearly related to Åmph. bellis 
Lyman from the Japanese seas. I am inelined to think it more 
nearly related to Åmphiura Eugeniæ Ljungm. from the South Amer¬ 
ican seas (the Fuegian region) and from off Kerguelen. I do not 
think, however, that it is identical with the latter species. Espec- 
ially the shape of the oral shields, although very variable in Å. 
eugeniæ, as shown by Koehler^) seems to afford a distinet dis- 
tinguishing character, being upon the whole more elongate and 
spearshaped in Å, eugeniæ, shorter and more rounded in Å. rosea. 
25. Åmphiura eugeniæ Ljungm. var. latisquama n. var. 
Fig. 21.a—c. 
Among the Ophiurids from New Zealand, brought home by the 
author, there is a single specimen of an Åmphiura, in a very poor 
State of preservation (dried), labelled only New Zealand. I am not 
quite sure how 1 have got it, but it is presumably one of the Echi- 
noderms presented to me by Mr. W. R. B. Oliver, and therefore 
probably was found in the neighbourhood of Auckland. 
1) See under the following species. 
