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prend ainsi une forme renfleé on pyramidale”. The specimen which 
I collected myself was attached to the rock with its whole oral 
surface, but on being preserved it assumed the peculiar inflated 
shape. It would thus appear rather to be a post mortern phenom- 
enon, not its normal position. One might perhaps suggest the 
inflation to have some connection with brooding habits. But about 
this nothing at all is known — that is for future observations on 
living specimens. 
The species is known to occur only at the New Zealand coasts, 
and only from Hauraki Gulf in the North to Timaru in the South. 
I may recall here the interesting comparison of this species 
with the remarkable group of fossil starfishes, the Sphærites, made 
by Schbndorf (“Die Organisation und systematische Stellung 
der Sphæriten”. Arch. f. Biontologie. I. 1906. p. 299); it should, 
however, be pointed out that the resemblance is only apparent, the 
body of 5. inflatus being in reality very flat, the high shape of 
specimens in collections being due to preservation, while in Sphærites 
it is the body itself which is very high, semiglobular. 
16. Henvicia lukinsii (Farquhar). 
PI. XIII. Figs. 1-2. 
Cribrella ornata Perr. H. Fil hol. 1885. Recueil de Mémoires, Rapports 
et Documents .... Pass. de Vénus sur le Soleil. 
III. Mission ile Campbell. Chapitre X. Echino- 
dermes. p. 572. 
— lukinsii. Farquhar. 1898. Notes on New Zealand Star- 
fishes. Trans. N. Z. Inst. XXX. p. 190. 
— — Farquhar. 1898. Echinoderm Fauna of New 
Zealand. Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales. p. 314. 
Henricia ornata Perr. (partim, Set A). Be nham. 1909. The Echinoderms, 
other than Holothurians. The Subantarctic Islands 
of New Zealand. I. p. 298. 
Several specimens from Figure 8 Island and Masked Island, 
Carnley Harbour, Auckland Islands, 30/XI—3/XII. 1914, and from 
Perseverance Harbour, Campbell Island, 8/XII. 14; found under 
stones, at low water. One specimen was found, together with 
Ophiomyxa brevirima, in the base of a large Macrocystis, cast ashore; 
the specimen was noticed to be still alive. 
