CKATEEOMORrUA .MEYEItl ÏUBEROSA. 



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fourteen) liuvc come nuclei- my observation. The localities in the 

 ^:>agami 8ea, so far as known to me, are : Outside Okinose 

 (about 429 m.), whence came most of the specimens; Homl)a 

 (about 572 m.) ; and a spot a few miles E. of Habu, Vries 

 Islaml. Xurth of the latitude of Ok i nose in the sea mentioned, 

 no specimen as yet seems to have been o])tained. AVhereas in 

 the Suruga Bay, on a rich Jfelacrinus ground near Enoura and 

 of only al)out 80 fathoms depth, the " Albatross " (Stat. 3719 ; 

 May 11, 19()0) trawled u[) a badly macerated specimen which at 

 the time seemed to me to ))elong to the present subspecies. 



A specimen from Honiba (PL V., fig. 12) was growing'- un 

 a loose stone covered all over with remains of Brvozoa, worm- 

 tubes, &c. Others from Outside Okinose are attached to Ijlack 



lava, to masses of volcanic de- 



tritus or to some shells (in one 

 case to a Balanus and in an- 

 other to a ]3rachiopod). Sylli.^ 

 ramosa seems to be a verv fre- 

 quent, if not a constant, com- 

 panion of the subspecies ; at 

 least I have been able to deter- 

 mine the presence of that com- 

 mensal Annelid in all speci- 

 mens (seven in number) from 

 Outside Okinose. 



This lot of Okinose speci- 

 mens is of further interest in 

 that it comprises a graduated 

 series of ditterently sized in- 

 dividuals of the subspecies, the 



'IVxl-figure 1. 



CnUeromuipha meyeri lubcrosa Ij. 

 5 natural size. 



