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.174 COLLECTIONS FROM MELANESIA.Table V.—List of Ophiuroidea collected by <strong>the</strong> ' Alert.'o B ° Ph'^i^O1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12.13.14.15.IG,17.18.19.20.21.22.23.24.25.26.27.28.29.30.31.Pect<strong>in</strong>ura gorg<strong>on</strong>ia<strong>in</strong>fernalisniegaloplaxstellataOpliiopeza c<strong>on</strong>juugens,...Opliiolepis aunulosa . .Ophioplocus imbricatusOphiactis saviguiiOphi<strong>on</strong>ereis dubiaOphiocoma brevipes ...scolopendr<strong>in</strong>aer<strong>in</strong>aceuBpicaOphiarthrum elegans ...Ophiarachna <strong>in</strong>crassataOphiothrix tril<strong>in</strong>eata ...propiuqual<strong>on</strong>gipedacffispitosa— martensistriolatagalateajciliarisrotatafumariapunctolirabatamicroplaxdarwiuimelanogramraa ..Ophiomaza cacaotica ..Eurj-ale aspera(var.)The collecti<strong>on</strong>s of <strong>the</strong> 'Alert' afford us, <strong>the</strong>n, ano<strong>the</strong>r justificati<strong>on</strong> for<strong>the</strong> view of <strong>the</strong> existence <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Indo</strong>-<strong>Pacific</strong> of a widely distributedcomm<strong>on</strong> fauna.It must, however, be carefully borne <strong>in</strong> m<strong>in</strong>d that <strong>the</strong> greater partof this comm<strong>on</strong> fauna is restricted to <strong>the</strong> <strong>in</strong>ter-tropical z<strong>on</strong>e ; whatlittle we know of <strong>the</strong> fauna of <strong>the</strong> Sou<strong>the</strong>rn Japanese seas leads usto th<strong>in</strong>k that <strong>the</strong> comm<strong>on</strong> forms are to be found <strong>the</strong>re also.The majority of extra-Australian naturalists have as yet failed alittle <strong>in</strong> recogniz<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> less<strong>on</strong> which <strong>the</strong>se collecti<strong>on</strong>s br<strong>in</strong>g soprom<strong>in</strong>ently forward—a less<strong>on</strong> already be<strong>in</strong>g learnt by those whohave <strong>the</strong> best opportunities of exam<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> characters of <strong>the</strong>Australian fauna ; <strong>the</strong> term Australian, without def<strong>in</strong>iti<strong>on</strong> orlimitati<strong>on</strong>, affords no exact <strong>in</strong>forraati<strong>on</strong>t. It is greatly to beregretted that <strong>in</strong> his tables of <strong>the</strong> distributi<strong>on</strong> of <strong>the</strong> species collectedt As is well known, Dr. Gi<strong>in</strong><strong>the</strong>r has l<strong>on</strong>g s<strong>in</strong>ce recognized this as regardsFishes, and has <strong>in</strong>stituted a South-Australian District (Introd. Study ofFishes, p. 283).

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