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Several specimeus were taken under stones, at low water, at the following 
localities: Mahia Peninsula; Slipper Island; Bay of Islands; North Cape; Plim- 
merton. Further in Queen Charlotte Sound, 3 — 10 fms, and in Paterson Inlet, 
Stewart Isl., 5 — 15 fms. The latter of these localities alone is of interest, the 
species not having hitherto been recorded from South of Dunedin. 
Fig. 30. Ophionereis fasciala Hutton. Part of oral side and four armjoints from middle 
of arm, dorsal side. *^/i. — Fig. 31. Ophionereis Schayeri M. & Tr. Part of oral side and 
three armjoints from middle of arm, dorsal side. 5,6/1. 
Ever since Farquhar in 1895 declared the New Zealand spec¬ 
ies Ophionereis fasciata Hutton to be identical with the Australian 
Ophionereis Schayeri (Muller & Troschel) this identity has been 
unanimously accepted by the authors, who have dealt with these 
species, doubtless without having directly examined the question 
themselves. It is probably due to the curious faet of these forms 
never having been figured^) that nobody has become suspicious as 
to their alleged identity. 
As seen on a comparison of the figures given here the two 
•9 Only H. L. Clark (Catalogue of Recent Ophiurans, 1915, PI. 13. 1 — 2 ) 
gives a pair of photographic figures of the true O. Schayeri (from Port Jack- 
son); they do, however, not show any of the structural details by which this 
species is distinguished from O. fasciata. 
