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In his report on the zoological collections made at Campbell 
Island during the Transit of Venus-Expedition in 1874 H. FilhoP) 
mentions only two species of seastars from there, viz. Cribrella 
ornata Perrier and Ophidiaster Campbelli. The latter is only a 
nornen nudum. Dr. L. Germain kindly informs me that there is 
no specimen thus labelled in the Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Paris, 
whereas there is a specimen labelled Cribrella campbellensis. This 
specimen having been sent me, I find it to be a typical specimen 
of Henricia liikinsii (Farquhar), thus, indeed, the same as the Cribrella 
ornata mentioned by Fil hol. Howsoever Filhol came to the name 
Ophidiaster Campbelli, it is — like Cribrella campbellensis — a 
nornen nudum, to be left out of consideration. 
S lad en, in his “Challenger” Asteroidea records Choriastei 
granulatus Ltk. and Meirodira subulata Cray from New Zealand; 
although also W. K. Fisher in his “Starfishes of the Philippine 
Seas” (1919) gives New Zealand under the localities of these two 
species, it may be regarded as fairly certain that they do not occur 
in New Zealand seas, these statements resting, evidently, on old 
unreliable Museum-labels “). 
Not counting some deep-water species taken off New Zealand 
by the “Challenger” and the “Gazelle”, the next addition to the 
Asteroid fauna of New Zealand is due to de Loriol, who in 1894^) 
describes a new species, Stichaster Suteri, which had been collected 
and sent him by Suter. 
From the following year until 1909 the increase of our know- 
ledge of the New Zealand Asteroid fauna is due exclusively to H. 
Farquhar, who in a series of important papers has described 
several new species, corrected mistakes in older identifications 
and, upon the whole, done a highly meritorious work in extending 
H. Fil hol. Recueil de Mémoires, Rapports et Documents.Pas¬ 
sage de Vénus sur le Soleil. III. Mission ile Campbell. Chapitre X. 
Échinodermes p. 572. 
In the Index Faunæ Novæ Zealandiæ Ophidiaster cylindricus (Lmk.) is 
enumerated among the New Zealand Asteroidea on the authority of 
S laden, Challenger-Asteroidea. However, S lad en gives as the only 
locality of this species Kandavu, Fiji Islands. It is thus by mistake that 
Oph. cylindricus is included in the list of New Zealand sea-stars. 
P. d e Loriol. Notes pour servir å FÉtude des Échinodermes. IV. Rev. 
Suisse de Zoologie. II. 1894. p. 477. 
