404 BULLETIN: MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 
This is the species which by some authors has been referred to P. vitreus 
Gmelin, from which it differs by sparser distribution of the scales and of the rows 
of scales, and by a slight but obvious obliquity. The two forms are, however, 
extremely similar. The “‘ Challenger” dredged the present form in from 140 to 
400 fathoms, off the southwest coast of Chile, or western Patagonia. 
Pecten (Pseudamusium) panamensis Da tt, n. sp. 
Plate 6, figures 8, 10. 
Shell translucent yellowish white, very thin, resembling mica in consistency, 
oblique, compressed; beaks small, low, polished, hardly projecting beyond the 
hinge line; ears small, subequal, the posterior feebly differentiated; the anterior 
right ear with a wide fasciole corresponding to the byssal sulcus, above which are 
five or more radial threads, the whole with strong incremental lines ; on the lower 
margin of the fasciole is a line of minute beads, apparently a ctenolium which be- 
comes obsolete at maturity; the other ears are sculptured like the rest of the 
disk; sculpture: on the left valve a feeble but distinct ‘‘ Camptonectes”’ striation, 
rather coarse and irregular incremental lines, the whole crossed by 40-65 fine 
radial, sparsely, minutely scaly threads, the scales occurring usually at the inter- 
section with a prominent incremental line; left valve with similar sculpture except 
that the ‘“ Camptonectes” striation is so fine as to require strong magnification 
and a good light to be seen at all; the valves are produced obliquely downward 
and backward; the surface sculpture yields readily to friction and many of the 
valves have lost it altogether, retaming only the concentric sculpture ; left valve 
slightly more convex; interior glassy, the resiliary pit very small, the margins 
entire. Height, 18; length, 18; max. diam. 2.5; hinge line, 9.5 mm. A 
very large specimen is 22 mm. high. 
U. 8. S. “ Albatross,” station 3354, Gulf of Panama, in 322 fathoms, mud, 
bottom temperature 56° F. U.S. N. Mus. 122,865. Also at stations 3389, 
3396, 3407, and 3422, ranging from near Acapulco, Mexico, to the Galapagos 
Islands, in 141 to 885 fathoms, soft bottom, temperatures 37°.2 to 53°.5 F. 
The shell was very abundant at some localities, the valves dead and separated, 
very few retaining the radial sculpture. 
CYCLOPECTEN VeErRit1u. 
Pecten (Cyclopecten) rotundus Datt, n. sp. 
Shell very small, thin, white, suborbicular, with subequal ears, both valves 
nearly equally convex; right valve polished, minutely regularly concentrically 
_ striated, which sculpture is barely visible under a hand lens; posterior ear smooth, 
anterior finely radially threaded, with a narrow but clean-cut byssal sulcus and 
fasciole ; left valve finely sharply radially striated, the anterior ear finely reticu-. 
