unworthy parallel to the Tuatara (Hatteria) among the land animals 
of New Zealand. Also Åstropecten primigenius, the most primitive 
of all Astropectens, is highly interesting as, evidently, representing 
a survival from very remote times. 
Among the genera endemic in the New Zealand region I would 
point out as the more important, besides Apatopygus: Pseudechinus 
and Evechinus. Especially interesting is Pseudechinus, v/hich has 
developed into a rather flourishing group of no less than four species. 
As stated in the report on the Echinoidea (p. 167) it is not improb- 
able that a fifth species of the genus occurs in the Australian seas, 
which probably means that the group has spread from its original 
home, the New Zealand seas, into the Australian seas, not inversely. 
In the “ Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand’ the number of 
Echinoderms recorded from the Auckland Campbell Islands 
amounts to 8; through the author’s researches the number is now 
raised to 19 species, given in the following list. (The letters A— 
Auckland Isl., and C = Campbell Isl., indicate from which of these 
islands each species is known). 
Notechinus novæ-zealandiae (C.) 
Ophiomyxa brevirima (A.) 
Amphiura magellanica (A.) 
— præfecta (A. C ) 
— amokuræ (C.) 
Amphioplus basilicus (A. C.) 
Amphipholis squamata (A.) 
Henricia lukinsii (A. C.) 
— compacta, var.aucklandica(A.) 
Asterina aucklandensis (A.) 
Calvasterias lævigata (A. C.) 
Allostichaster insignis (A.) 
Cucumaria brevidentis (A.) 
— — var. carnleyensis 
(A. C.) 
— leoninoides (A. C.) 
— amokuræ (A.) 
Chiridota nigra (A.) 
— carnleyensis (A.) 
Trochodota dunedinensis (A.) 
Of these 19 species 8, or 42%, are endemic; of the rest of 
them 9 are otherwise known only from New Zealand, while one, 
Åmph. magellanica, occurs also in the Magellanic region and another, 
Amph. squamata, is cosmopolitan. These facts show that, at least 
as far as the Echinoderms are concerned, the Auckland-Camp- 
bell Islands have no nearer relation to any other 
region than Nevv Zealand, the sole species Amphiura magel¬ 
lanica not being of sufficient weight for proving a nearer relation 
to the Magellanic region, as this species may very easily have 
been transported on floating algæ. 
