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quhari and records as new to the New Zealand fauna Psilaster 
acuminatus SI. (hitherto known only from deeper water), an 
unidentified Liiidia sp. and Odontaster Grayi Bell. Hutton’s Unio- 
phora (Asteracanthion) granifera Lamk. is stated to be a misident- 
ification. In the same year he records Åsterina flmbriata Perrier 
from the Auckland Islands^), likewise a new addition to the New 
Zealand fauna; on the other hånd he restricts the number of species 
of New Zealand Asteroids, declaring Cribrella lukinsii Farquhar to 
be the same as Heniicia ornata (Perrier). 
The last author to contribute to the New Zealand fauna of 
seastars is Koehler, who in 1911^) describes a new species, 
Goniodon angustus, and further, in his report on the Asteroidea of the 
Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1920, declares the Åsterina from 
the Auckland Islands, which Ben ham identified as Åsterina fim- 
briata Perr., to be a new species, Åsterina aucklandensis. 
In the present paper 6 new species are described, viz. Åstro- 
pecten dubiosus, A. primigenius, Luidia varia, L. neozelanica (— the 
Liiidia sp. of Ben ham), Peridontaster Benhami (— the Odontaster 
Grayi of Ben ham), Nectria pedicelligera, and a new variety of 
Henricia compacta, var. aucklandice ] besides, two varieties, a and b, 
of Åsterina regularis are described. One species, Ophidiaster kerma- 
decensis Benham is recorded as new to the New Zealand fauna; 
on the other hånd three are eliminated as synomyms only, viz. 
Åstropecten EdivardsiVerr. (Syn. ofÅstrop.polyacanthus), Pentagonaster 
abnormalis Cray (Syn. of P. pulchellus) and Goniodon angustus 
Koehler (Syn. of Goniodon dilatatus). 
The corrected list of New Zealand Asteroids, not including those 
known only from the Kermadec Islands or from the Deep-Sea off 
New Zealand, then looks as follows, in modern nomenclature. 
1. Åstropecten polyacanthus Mull. & Troschel (= Åstropecten 
Edwardsi Verrill) 
2. „ dubiosus n. sp. 
3. „ primigenius n. sp. 
‘) Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand. 1909. Art. XIII. Echinoderms, other 
than Holothurians. 
-) R. Koehler. Description de quelques Astéries nouvelles. Rev. Suisse 
de Zool. 19. 1911. 
