202 I. IJIMA : HEXACTINELLIDA. I. 



EUPLECTELLA OWENI Herkl. & Marsh. 

 PI. VI. 



EnpIecteUa, Max Schulze '6o, p. 39. 



E. Owenii, Herklots & Marshall '68. — Marshall 

 '75, p. 180, figs, in pis. — Marshall '76, 

 p. 128.—^. Oweni, Schulze '86, p. 38.— 

 E. Owenii, Schulze '87, p. 78 ; pi. vi, figs. 

 1, 2. — E. oweni, Schulze '95, pp. 29, 48. 



An elaborate description of this species was first given by 

 Marshall ('75,) from liis study of six specimens most of which, 

 known to have been brought from Japan by IMajor v. Siebold, 

 were preserved in the Leyden Museum. I presume the speci- 

 mens were collected by v. Siebold in the waters of Kyushu. 

 F. E. Schulze has also contributed in the Challenger-Report an 

 excellent account of a specimen, probably the oue,"^ which was 

 procured by Dr. DoderlEix at Shimonoseki, a town at the 

 entrance to the Inland Sea from the Corean Channel. The species 

 therefore may be said to be one of the best known in the genus. 



In the waters near Sagami, it has as yet never been met 

 with. Whereas, I have had opportunities to examine several 

 specimens which have all come from Kyushyu or from the 

 neighborhood of that island, as did probably all those previously 

 known. 



The first specimen I came across was a dilapidated one which 

 was exhibited, together with red corals, &c., in the Fourth 

 Industrial Exhibition, held 1895 at Kyoto. The exhibitor was 



* Mentioned in Doderi^ein's letter quoted by Schdlze in the Challenger-Report, p. 2. 

 For the systematic position of the second specimen mentioned by Schulze under E. oweni, 

 I. c, p. 81, see p. 59 of this Contribution. 



