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ChMopleura hrucei, Iredale, sp. n. (Plate, tigs. 24, 2ia-d.) 



Shell of medium size, ovate, depressed, girdle fleshy, densely covered with hairs, the 

 longer being very prominent on a bed of shorter ones, appearing to be grouped and 

 longest near the sutures. Valves broad, with a well-marked keel, though not very high, 

 the posterior valve having the macro about the anterior third. 



Shell smooth, the lateral areas being indicated by a very faintly raised ridge. 



Down the median keel of the five centre valves is a row of pustules which do not 

 reach to the mucro, and two parallel rows can be seen on either side, these rows show- 

 ing on the anterior portion of the posterior valve ; but on the first median valve this 

 arrangement is not so apparent. 



Scattered radiating rows of similar pustules are seen on the anterior valve, where 

 faint ridges are indicated ; similar sculpture is seen on the posterior part of the end 

 valve. On the pleural areas of the median valves scattered pustules are also present, 

 whilst the lateral areas have them also few and scattered. Otherwise the only feature 

 is the concentric growth-ridges, which are well marked on each ridge, indicating regular 

 growth in still water. 



The internal features are, as noted by Pilsbry for C. peruviana, Lamk. (^Man. 

 Conch., xiv. p. 29, 1892), the anterior valve with 9, central valves 1, and posterior 



valve 9 slits. 



ilat.— Scotia Bay, South Orkneys. Station 325. One fine specimen only. 

 Agrees closely with C. i-)eruviana, Lamk., and seems to be the first record for the 

 genus from east of South America. (T. Iredale.) 



Lepidopleurus pagenstecheri, Pfefl"er. 

 Leptochiton pagenstecheri, Pfeflfer, Jahrb. hmnbunj. wissenschaftlichen Anstalten, iii 

 Jahrgang, p. 107, t. iii. fig. 3 (1886). 



Hah.— Scotia. Bay, 9-10 fathoms. Station 325. 



Thiele considers this Chiton conspecific with L. hergiielensis, Haddon, from 

 KercTuelen Island, but Iredale does not accept this conclusion, though admitting the 

 close alliance of the two species. 



Hemiarthrum setidosum, Carpenter. 



Hemiarthrum setulosum, Carpenter, MS., p. 13.-Dall, Ball. U.S. Nat. Mus. ii., (1876), p. 41. 

 —Haddon, '' 0/iallenger" Polyplacophora, p. U, t. i. fig. 1; t. ii. fig. in, 1.— Martens 

 and Pteffer, Jahrb. des hamburg. wissenschaftlichen Anstalten, iii. p. 108, t. in. fig. 4 

 (1886). 

 i/(t?>. —Station 325, Scotia Bay, 9-10 fathoms, on Fuci and other Algae. 

 Very small and juvenile specimens, probably referable to the above. Iredale also 

 doubts the identity of the South Georgian Hemiarthrum with that described by Dall 

 from Kerguelen Land, but more material is wanted for comparison. 



(ROY. SOC. EDIN. TRANS., VOL XLVIII., 343.) 



