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only in the left dorsolateral interradius, scattered over the whole 
breadth of the interradius. They are of a broad trumpet-shape, 
with a short stalk (Fig. 53). 
The specimen contains apparently ripe eggs, which are very 
small, ca. O.os mm in diameter. This 
would appear to indicate that this spe¬ 
cies has a typical Auricularia - larva. 
The species having hitherto been 
recorded only from the Chatham Islands 
and the Victorian Coast, it is very 
satisfactory now to have a definite 
record of its occurrence also at New 
Zealand, where it was, of course, to be expected to occur. 
Fig. 53. Ciliated funnels of 
Chiridota gigas. ™/i. 
22. Chiridota nigva n. sp. 
Chiridota gigas. Benham. 1909. Echinoderma. Sci. Res. N. Z. G Trawl¬ 
ing Exped. Rec. Canterbury Mus. I .2 1909. p 3. 
Non: Chiridota gigas Den dy & Hindle. 1907. Add. Knowl. N. Z. 
Holoth. J. Linn Soc. Zool. XXX. p. 110. PI. 12 . 9 —u. 
Paterson Inlet, Stewart Island, 12—15 fms; mud. 17/XI. 1914. 3 specimens. 
Carnley Harbour, Auckland Isl., ca 45 fms. 6 /XII. 1914. 1 specimen. 
The specimen from Carnley Harbour is a fragment in poor 
condition, without the anterior end. One of the specimens from 
Paterson Inlet is a fragment of the anterior end of a young spe¬ 
cimen, in very poor condition. The others are large ones, in fairly 
good condition, though broken to pieces, so that it is impossible 
to give the exact length of the specimens. One of the fragments 
measures' 14 cm in length; as it is partly strongly contracted and 
lacks the anterior end, we may safely conclude that this specimen 
was at least, 20 cm long; in the non-contracted part it measures 
ca. 1.5 cm in diameter. It is thus clear that this species reaches 
a large size, probably equalling that of Chiridota gigas which, ac- 
cording to J oshu a^) is capable of extending itself to a length of 
about two feet. 
1) E. C.Joshua. Victorian Holothurioidea, with descriptions of new species. 
Trans. R. Soc. Victoria. 27. 1914. p. 7. 
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