299 
New Zealand seas is rather remarkable, as it would appear from 
Perri er’s statements to be fairly common there; it is hardly 
conceivable how such a littoral species of not very small size, and 
which must be expected to occur in fair numbers where it lives, 
could have been so entirely overlooked. It is therefore very temp- 
ting to suggest that the locality ‘^Nouvelle Zélande” may be due 
to erroneous labelling. At aiiy rate, I do not think it safe to include 
this species definiiely in the New Zealand fauna, until new and 
incontestable records of its occurence there are at hånd. 
1 would, however, recall a statement by Hutton (Notes on 
some New Zealand Echinodermata, with descriptions of new species. 
Trans. N. Z. Inst. 1878. p. 306) about a 6-rayed variety of A. regu- 
laris from Dunedin, “which can hardly be distinguished from A. 
australis". Possibly this may have been a true A. Gunnii. Also there 
is in the Copenhagen Museum a specimen of A. Gunnii, labelled 
Auckland (received from the Museum of Vienna in 1877). But 
here, again, there is no certainty that the label is correct. .Then, mo¬ 
reover, this specimen differs from the typical A. Gunnii in having on 
the inner 3-4 adambulacral plates 3 outer spines, connected by a web 
and arranged in an oblique series; farther out there are only two 
outer spines. This recalls A, novæ-zelandiæ; also the furrow-spines are 
three. But then the interradial plates of the oral side carry only 
one spine each in the proximal part of the area, farther out two, 
while in A. novæ-zelandiæ especially the proximal plates carry each 
3 4 spines. After all I am inclined to think that this specimen 
may ultimately prove, in spite of its 6 arms and the difference 
in the spines on the interradial plates, to belong to A. novæ-zelandiæ, 
to A. Gunnii it could hardly belong. 
[Astevina (Patiria) novæ-zelandiæ PerrierJ. 
Asterina novæ-zelandiæ. Per ri er. 1875. Revis. Coll. Stellerides Mus. 
Paris. p. 308. 
- neozelanica. H. Farquhar. 1909. Further Notes on New 
Zealand Starfishes.Trans. N.Z Inst. XLI.p. 126. 
- novæ-zelandiæ. Koehler 1917. Échinodermes (Astéries, 
Ophiures et Échinidesj rec. par M. Rallier du 
Baty, aux iles de Kerguelen, en 1913 — 14. 
Ann. Inst. Océanogr. VII. p. 48. Note. 
