300 
Asterina novce-zelandice Koehler. 1920. Echinodermata Asteroidea. 
Australasian Antarctic Exped. Zool. VIII. p. 135. 
PI. XXXV. figs. 9-10. 
Non: Asterina novæ-zelandiæ. Goto. 1914. Monogr. Japan. Asteroidea. 
Journ. Coll. of Sci. Tokio. XXIX, p. 643. PI. 
XIX. 279. 
It was suggested by Fa rq uh ar (A contribution to the history 
of New Zealand Echinoderms. Journ. Linn. Soc. London. Zool. XXVI. 
1897. p. 196) that Perrier’s Asterina novæ-zelandiæ might be 
only an abnormal form of Asterina regularis. The original descript- 
ion as well as the additional information and, especially, the figures 
of the type specimen given by Koehler do not, however, leave 
any doubt but that this species is entirely distinet from A. regularis. 
But how is it possible that such a large and conspieuous littoral 
starfish has never been found again? The New Zealand shores 
certainly have been so mueh explored that it is hardly conceivable 
how this species could have been entirely overlooked. I cannot help 
suggesting that the referring of this species to the New Zealand 
fauna may be due to an erroneous labelling in the old collection. 
14. Asterina (Astevinopsis) aucklandensis Koehler. 
PI. XII. Figs. 14—15. 
Asterina flmbriata Perr. Ben ham. 1909. The Echinoderms, other than 
Holothurians. The Subantarctic Isl. of New Zea¬ 
land. I. p. 295. 
aucklandensis. Koehler. 1920. Echinodermata Asteroidea. 
Austral. Antarct. Exped. Zoology. VIII. p. 135. 
Several specimens found under stones at low water, on the 
shore of Figure 8 Island and Masked Island, Carnley Harbour, 
Auckland Islands. 2 —3/XIL 1914. 
As pointed out by Koehler (Op. cit) the Asterina of the Auck¬ 
land Islands has no nearer relation to the Magellanic Asterina flm¬ 
briata Perrier, to which it was referred by Benham. In faet it 
belongs to quite another group of Asterinas than does Å. flmbriata, 
viz. the genus Asterinopsis of VerriII, Å. flmbriata belonging to 
the Patiriella-gvonp. As the description given by Ben ham needs 
several additions and also a few corrections I think it preferable 
to give a complete description of the species. 
