220 



K. JiiTsuKura : studies on 



PsoJus {Ctivin-ki) »2UttmalHs var. ? TiiEEL 1886'', ])p. 89, 129, PI. XV. 

 figs. 1, 2, PI. VI., fig. 2.— ?Peri!IEr 1904, p. 16. 



Psdws sqiiaiiKifiis Viir. .sajmidliin Perhieh 1905, ]>. 59. 



Specimens exaininod : — 



Description : — " Body depressed. Jvatoral series of pedicels 

 composed of Wo to fom* vows. Odd iimbulaeruin always naked, 

 tliougli it possesses some pedicels in its anterior and posterior 

 portions. Scales largo, imbricating upon one another, with rather 

 uneven margin, and covered with fine granules only. The sole 

 devoid of the cup- shaped bodies is supi^orted by more or less 

 scattered, irregular, reticulate, slightly spinous or knobbed plates " 

 (Theel 1886, p. 129). 



Remarks : — It is with some hesitation that I refer these speci- 

 mens to P. squamalus. As P. fahricii has been previousl}^ reported 

 from .lai)an (1?ell 1882), 1 naturally expected to find tliat these 

 specimens belonged to that species, but although they look very 

 much like a specimen of that species from Massachusetts Bay in 

 North America, there is one fatal objection to identifying them 

 with P. fahricii. That is, the calcareous deposits of the sole are 

 entirely devoid of reticulate cups, and on the whole are much 

 like those figured by Thkel as found in the sole of P. squamalus 

 (toxtfig. 42). Further, tlie agTeement in other characters with tlie 



