Family Trichasteridae
Astrobrachion Doederlein, 1927

Astrobrachion constrictum (Farquhar. 190)

• New Golden Hind station NGH 64a, two specimens.
• Alert station 35, one fragmented specimen.
• Off Westland, 20 miles west of Hokitika, 216 fathoms, on branching coral; coll. H. W. Wellman; four specimens.

One of the New Golden Hind specimens is a uniform purplish-brown, save on the under-sides of the arms, which are paler. It is tightly coiled round an anti-patharian coral (Aphanipathes sp., det F. M. Ralph). The other six specimens are of a variegated coloration, the aboral surface of the disc and the upper and lateral surfaces of the arms are creamy white; the adoral side is purplish-brown.