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This specimen much resembles L. alveolus, to which I at first referred 

 it. A careful microscopical examination, however, shows differences 

 which I am disposed to consider specific; but I have but one si^ecimen, 

 and others might show modifications in these particulars. 



The differential characters are as follows : In alveolus the pustules are 

 distributed evenly, closely, and in no pattern whatever, all over the sur- 

 face. In Bellnapi, they are more widely separated, and arranged in quin- 

 cunx on the dorsum, the spaces seeming to radiate from the median 

 dorsal hue. In alveolus, the lateral areas are barely perceptible ; in Bel- 

 Jcnapi, they are raised, concentrically rugose, and the pattern of the pus- 

 tidar arrangement is different and more irregular than that on the dorsum. 

 In BeUcnapi, also, the girdle is very thin, narrow, and sparsely set witli 

 small pellucid spicules near the margin. The posterior mucro, or apex of 

 the posterior plate, in BelJcnapi, is prominent, overhangs a shallow con- 

 cavity, and from its point there diverge anteriorly four depressed lines, 

 the outer two to the anterior lateral angles of the plate, the inner two 

 equidistant from each other 'and the outer hues. Between these lines 

 the plate is swelled, forming three rounded ridges, extending forwaj'd 

 like the leaflets of a trefoil or clover. Nothing resembhng this has been 

 observed on any of the other species which have come under my notice. 



The soft parts, in spirits, appear to resemble the other species com- 

 pared with it. It is evidently adult. 



It was certainly unexpected that a stone-clinging moUusk like a Chiton 

 should reach such great depths as those from which this was obtained. 

 In the same region, and at about the same depth, a Cyliclina and a 

 Natica, both api)arently identical with certain Arctic species, were also 

 obtained in the same way. Its enormous range in latitude, as indicated 

 by the Kerguelen specimens, reminds one of the range of species in 

 earlier geological times, and points out how relatively modern our httoral 

 marine faunie may be. It is not the only form common to the southern 

 and northern oceans. 



Extra-limital Species. 

 Leptocliiton asellus. 



Chiton asellus (Chemn. Spengl.) Lowe, Zool. Joum. ii, p. 101, pi. v, f. 3, 4, 1825. 



Chiton cinereus Montague, Tiirton, and others, not of Linn6. 



? Lcpidoplcurus cinereus Sars, 1. c. j). 112, j)l. 7, f. 8 a-h, 1878; as of Liun6. 



Rah. — Northern seas of Europe; Lofoten Ids.; Greenland? (Morch); 

 not New England, as erroneously stated by authors. The cinereus of 

 Linn(5, from his type, was a Trachydermon. 

 Leptochiton fuliginatus. 



Chiton fuUginatus Ad. & Rve. Conch. Icon. pi. xxvi, f. 174, 1847. 

 Sal). — Korea, Belcher. 

 Leptochiton conciunus. 



Leptochiton concinnus Gld. Otia, p. 117, 1860. 

 Hah. — Hakodadi, Japan ; Stimpson. 



