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East coast of the South Island, from a depth of ca. 40—100 meters. 
Further two large specimens, taken at Shag Point, Otago, under 
stones at low water, were given me by Mr. W. R. B. Oliver (Auck- 
land). These localities, together with those given by Farquhar 
and Ben ham, tend to show that in New Zealand this species is 
confined to the seas round the South Island, the most northern 
locality, from where it is recorded, being Cape Campbell, at the 
entrance of the Cooks Strait. While thus it does not appear to occur 
to the North of the Cooks Strait, I can give evidence of its being 
further distributed in the Southern seas of the New Zealand region. 
During my trip to the Auckland- and Campbell-Islands I was 
very anxiously looking out for Echinoids. Although not one Echin¬ 
oid was found there by the New Zealand Expedition, the occur- 
rence of at least one species at the Campbell Island has been 
established by Fil hol, who records Echinus margaritaceus from 
Perseverance Harbour. That this identification was wrong could 
hardly be doubted, but the specimens having apparently been lost 
(Comp. my Report on the Echinoidea of the Swedish South Polar 
Exped. p. 50) it could not be ascertained, which species it really 
was that he had found there. To my great disappointment my 
dredgings in the Perseverance Harbour did not yield a single spec- 
imen of any Echinoid, and neither did I find any at the Auckland 
Islands. I was then most agreably surprised in receiving later on 
from the (now late) chief engineer of the „Amokura“, Mr. Pyke, 
a specimen of an Echinoid which he had got at the next visit of 
the „Amokura“ to the Campbell Island from the shepherds living 
at Perseverance Harbour, and which had been found thrown up 
on the beach in the inner part of Perseverance Harbour. It proved 
to be a young specimen of Notechinus novæ-zealandiæ. There is 
then every reason to suppose that this was the species, which Fil¬ 
hol mistook for „ Echinus margaritaceus*. It may thus be expected 
that this species will also be found at the Auckland Islands. Further 
I can State that it occurs likewise at Macquarie Island. At the 
Dominion Museum of Wellington I was told by Mr. Ham il ton 
that, during his visit there with the Australian Antarctic Expedition 
(1911 —13) he had found a pair of sea-urchins cast up on the 
rocky shores; the specimens, which were kindly submitted to me, 
proved to be likewise Notechinus novæ-zealandiæ. — From a zoo- 
