5G6 



Dr. W. T. Caiman on 



All specimens taken by C./S. i Patrol ' from Java- 

 Australia cables. 



Description. — Capitulum covered with a thick opaque 

 cuticle, the surface of which has a very fine, short, velvety 

 pile, with stouter but still short seta3 interspersed. Valves 

 separated by distinct interspaces, that separating the scutum 

 from the upper part of the carina being especially wide. The 

 lines of growth are well-marked, regularly and rather widely 

 spaced ; when the cuticle is removed, rather faint radial 



Fie-. 2. 



Meyalasma {Glyptelasma) pilsbryi, up. n. 



Body, from the side, showing dorsal filamentary appendages, first cirrus, 

 and caudal appendages. 



striations are visible on the scutum. Scutum with occludent 

 margin slightly convex, tergal margin straight, carinal margin 

 convex, passing in an even curve into the straight basal 

 margin, which forms a little less than a right angle with the 

 chord of the occludent margin. A submarginal ridge runs 

 from umbo to apex, but there is no definite ridge from umbo 

 to tergo-carinal angle ; the basal margin is slightly everted 

 and thickened. On the inner surface is an umbonal tooth or 



