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more species are recorded as new to the New Zealand fauna: 
Åstropecten armatus Gray(?), Henricia occulata Penn. and Othilia 
luzonica Cray. The latter species is inciuded in the New Zealand 
fauna on the apparent authority of Gray, who in his “Synopsis 
of the species of Starfish in the British Museum” 1866, p. 12, 
quotes from Muller & Troschel’s ‘‘System der Asteriden” Echi- 
naster eradanella (sic!) with the locality New Zealand. This is, 
however, simply a lapsus calami on the part of Gray, as Muller 
& Troschel have only the locality “Neu Irland” for the said species. 
(The species eridanella and luzonicus appear to be synonyms only 
of Ech. purpureus). 
In 1875 E. Perri er') describes two new species of seastars 
from New Zealand, viz. Pentagonaster dilatatus and Åsterina novæ- 
zelandiæ, while Åsterina Gunnii Gray is recorded from New Zea¬ 
land ; it is also stated under Pentagonaster australis (Gray) (Op. 
cit. p. 200) that there are three specimens of this species in the 
collection Michelin “designés avec doute comme provenant de la 
Nouvelle-Zélande . As this species has not since been recorded 
from New Zealand, the label doubtlessly was incorrect. Perrier 
further States that Verrill’s Coelasterias australis belongs to the 
genus Stichaster M. & Tr., that his Coscinasterias muricata is the 
same as Asterias calamaria Lamk., and that Hutton’s Pteraster 
inflatus belongs to the genus Palmipes Linck. 
Hutton in 1878^) adds four species to the New Zealand 
fauna of seastars, viz. Asteracanthion graniferus Lamk., Asterias 
rupicola Verr., Echinaster(?) sp. and Chætaster maciilatus Gray; in 
the same paper he States the Henricia occulata of his Catalogue 
to be Echinaster fallax M. & Tr., which is again the same as 
Othilia luzonica Gray. Further in 1879^) he describes a seastar 
from the Auckland Isl. under the name of Asterias rupicola Verr., 
var. lævigata. 
E. Perrier. Révision de la collection de Stellérides du Muséum d’histoire 
naturelle de Paris. 1875. (Arch. de Zool. expér. & génér. IV—V. 1875—76). 
In the quotations of this paper in the following the page numbers 
refer to the separate copy. 
) F. W. Hutton. Notes on some New Zealand Echinodermata, with de- 
scriptions of New Species. Trans. N. Z. Inst. XI. p. 305; 
F. W. Hutton. Notes on a collection from the Auckland Islands and 
Campbell Island. Ibidem. p. 343. 
