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spine-covering of the aboral side, the spines being siender and 
divergent, while in the typical form — also in the young specimens 
(I have found them so small as 5 mm diameter) — they are 
thicker and closeset (Figs, 12.a—b). The characters of the oral side 
are essentially the same as in the typical form, only the spines 
Fig. 12. Asterina regularis. Spinelets of dor^al plates in 
the variety b (a) and in the typical form (b). 2s/i. 
are somewhat more siender, conical. Also the spines of the mar¬ 
ginal fringe appear to be somewhat more elongate than in the 
typical form. Colour white. 
The genital organs are as yet undeveloped, and, accordingly, 
the specimens are young, immature — be they now true Å. regu¬ 
laris or a separate species. — It is worth mentioning that on col- 
lectmg these specimens I was struck with their different aspect from 
the typical regularis and stated in my notebook that probably they 
were another species. 
[Åstevina. (Patiriella) Gunnii Gray.y 
Asterina Gunnii. Cray. 1866. Synopsis of the species ofStarfish; p. 16. 
— — Terrier. 1875. Revision Coll. Stellérides Mus. Paris 
p. 298. 
Perri er (Op.cit.) records this species from New Zealand, several 
specimens being found in the Paris Museum, partly from the voyage 
of Quoy & Gaimard, 1829, partly from the Michel in collec- 
tion. When the species is omitted in Farquhar’s lists of New 
Zealand Echinoderms it is probably due to faet that he has over¬ 
looked Perrier’s statement, which was also overlooked by S la¬ 
den, who does not give New Zealand as a locality of this species 
in his “Challenger” Report. 
The faet that this species has not been recorded afterwards from 
