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prolongations. Stone-canal one, attached to the dorsal mesentery. 

 Pohan vesicle one, vesicular. 



Calcareous deposits : — (i) Large scales or plates 0.6 mm. large, 

 or smaller, easily visible with a hand-lens ; they give firmness 

 to the perisome. The large- sized plates 

 lead down to smaller forms with fewer 

 openings (textfig. 45/>). (ii) Small 

 rosette-like figures, mostly cruciform in 

 shape, lying outside of the scales (a), 

 (iii) Supporting rods which, unlike those 

 of Theel' sspecimens, or Sluitee's, are 

 irregular plates witli holes in irregular 

 distribution (c). 



Remarks : — This is one of the com- 

 monest holothurians near Misaki. The 

 specimens were found attached in a 

 considerable number to the shells of 

 Ostrca glgas, as well as to sea-weeds, 

 brought up by divers from a depth of 

 3 — 4 fathoms. 



It is not without some liesitation that I identify these 

 specimens with C. capensis of Thi;el. However, in the body form 

 and anatomical relations, as well as in the distribution of pedicels 

 and the character of calcareous deposits, they must be said to agree 

 essentially with Theel's description. Only the specimens in question 

 are very much smaller. Sluiter has found the same to be the case 

 with his specimens. Theel's specimens measured 53 mm. and 

 Sll'itee's 33 mm., while mine are all less than 20 mm. at the most. 

 One of the largest, when living, was 15 mm. x 4 mm. Under the 

 circumstances it has seemed to me best to put this as a variety 



Textfig. 4B. 



Cucumaria capensis, Viir. parva : 

 a — Eosette-like, cntciform bodies ; 

 6 — Small form of scale or plate ; 

 r — Snpportinp; rod. ( x 300). 



