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pair or so of openings (c). These minute buttons are not men- 

 tioned by Bell, but as tliey are placed mucli deeper than the 

 tables and ordinary buttons, they might easily be overlooked, and 

 wore probably not noticed by Bell. 



The supporting rods of the pedicels and papillaB are large 

 button-like plates and slender dendritic rods. Ventral pedicels 

 are supplied with large, and dorsal papilte with small, end- 

 plates. 



Reproductive organs aru present on the left side only ; they 

 were still very small in the specimen examined. Polian vesicles 

 three, of which one was filiform and the other two more or less 

 club-shaped, the largest being 1.5 em. long. Stone-canal single; 

 dorsally situated on the right of the dorsal mesentery, with a pea- 

 shaped madreporic body. Cuvierian organ was a bundle of un- 

 branched finger-like tubes attached to the stem of the respiratory 

 tree. Calcareous ring as shown in textfig. 20 a, the radial pieces 

 being 2 mm. high. 



The above species is close to H. oxurropa Sluitee. But in 

 the latter species, the arrangement of ambulacral appendages in 

 regular rows can bo detected neither on the dorsum nor on the 

 ventrum, the appendages are without white areas around the base, 

 and the dorsal papillfe lack calcareous deposits except small 

 end-plates ; while in my specimens of //. macleari they are covered 

 witli numerous tables and buttons, the stone-canal is attached, 

 and Polian vesicles are 8 — 12 in number. 



This species also closely resembles //. infesta SLriTEK in 

 having three kinds of calcareous bodies, but in that species, the 

 innermost layer consists of slender rods shghtly thorny at the 

 ends. Further, the species show close resemblance to H. lampetii 

 LuDWiG, //. ciiriosa Ludwig and //. fusco-lu,hra Theel. I should 



