18 ACAM !!<( HITES. 



small, transversely >uhovate, depressed-conical, with a nearly central 

 inn. very large, laterally produced, with only two 



bee lu-hind. Interior of the valves bluish. Mantle very 

 minutely .-pinuloH-, bearin .nspicuous compact tufts of silky 



spicules along the sides, not at all unlike in their fibrous text uiv that 

 of asbestos. Length 1"> millim., width of the broadest central valve 



a 



r 9 * Island, Hans' Straits (Jos. Milligan) ; Port Nolle, QIC 

 ' Coppinger), Australia. 



(Aoanthochtion) asbettoidct Cpr. MS., SMITH, Zool. Coll. 

 II. M. 9 'Alert, 1 p. 83, t. 6, f. G (1884.) 



iinerous specimens are before me from the collection of the 

 Canada Geological Survey. The species is characterized by tin- 

 density of the narrow white asbestos-like tufts, well shown in the 

 figure. 



(3) Species of Japan, China, and the Sandn'irh Is. 



.' T.KMI .INI: \ -rrs Lischke. PL 2, fig. 50. 



Shell oblong-ovate, convex, very minutely granose, dull flesh- 

 colored, here and there brown, having a wedge-shaped olive spot in 

 the middle of the valves, and painted with obliquely longitudinal red 

 lin-. Sides of valves in large part covered by the girdle, the free 

 portion about as long as wide. Anterior valve regularly convex ; 

 posterior valve small, obtusely beaked; the rest having a narrow 

 smooth median area, slightly excavated on each side. Girdle clothed 

 with minute, irregular spines, and 18 pores bearing dark bristles. 

 Length :U, breadth 20 mill. (Lischke.) 



Nagasaki, Jajmu. 



Chiton rubro lineatus LISCHKE, Malak. Bliitt. xxi, p. 24 (June, 

 1873); Japonische Meeres-Couchylien, iii, p. 73, t. 5, f. 12 (1874.) 



Described from a single specimen. Compare A. achates. 

 A. ACHATES Gould. 



11 narrow, elliptical ; sooty, with a yellow streak on each side 



Valve* >eal--hap'd, beaked and carinated, at the apices smooth and 



y colored, elsewhere scaly-granulated. Anterior valve M-mi- 



oval; posterior valve small, triangular, the mucro subtenninal ; 



; or glaucous. Ligament wide, provided with short, unequal 



- and bunches of spienles. 



