REMARKS ON THE CHITONIDAE 



BY 



H. F. NIERSTRASZ 



Utrecht, 



with PI. 111. 



I. Ou the recent Literature. 



In H. A. Pilsbry's Manual of Conchology, Vol. 14 and 15 

 we find complete data on the systeraatic literature of the Chito- 

 nidae up to the year 1893. Simroth has given in his »Mollusca" 

 (Bronn's Klassen und Ordnuugen des Thierreichs, Bd. 3, Abt. 1, 

 1892 — 1894) a list of the most important writings on anatomy, 

 morphology, systematics and embryology ; this list has been 

 completed by L. Platk (Fauna Chilensis, Zool. Jahrb., Supplem. 

 4 & 5, Band 1 & 2, 1898 — 1901), especially with regard to ana- 

 tomy. In the last ten years however several authors have 

 described many new forms of Chitons; this literature was not 

 included by Plate. So hereby I give a list of works, which have 

 appeared since 1893, in which we find data on systematics and 

 biology. This list can be considered an addition to the three 

 above-mentioued works. No doubt, this list will be incomplete; many 

 publications on Molluscs, in which new localities are published, 

 have escaped my attention. But in every case all the new spe- 

 cies of Chitons are touched upon. 



