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It is even rarer than the last species, and hardly known in collections. 



The gills are median 5 mantle-edge broad and even; the veil is pecti- 

 nated and the anterior edge of the muzzle has a sort of rim or margin, 

 besides. 



Subgenus Chlamydochiton Dall. 



Amicula Cpr. pars; non Gray, Adams, etc. 

 Chlamydochiion Dall, Proc. Nat. Mus. p. 1, Jan. 1878. 



Chlamydochiton amiculatus. 



Chlamydochiton amiculatus Dall, 1. c. 



Chiton amiculatus Pallas, Nova Acta Petrop. ii, p. 241, pi. vii, f. 25-30, 1788. — 

 Gnielin, Syst. Nat. p. 3206, 1790.— Wood, Gen. Conch, p. 13, 1815.— Dill - 

 wyn, Cat. Jlec. Shells, i, p. 6, 1817. — Blainville, Diet. Sci. Nat. xxxvi, p. 

 546, 1825.— Midd. Mai. Eoss. i, p. 96, 1847.— H. & A. Adams, Gen. Rec. 

 Moll, i, p. 480, 1854. 



Not C. amiculatus Sowerby, Conch. 111. f. 80, 1839, nor of Gray, P. Z. S. 1847, 

 pp. 65, 69, 169, = C. Stelleri Midd. 



Not C. amiculatus Wood, Ind. Test. f. 12, 1828, = 0. vestitus (probably).— ? Reeve, 

 Conch. Icon. Chiton, f. 59, 1847. 



O. t. extus Cr. Stelleri, jim. simili, sed apicibus val varum rotunda ti;> 

 extantibus ; intus, laminis v. post, mopaloideis, utr. lat. (et v. centr.) 

 unifissatis ; sinu caudali lato, altiore ; lam. sut. anticis modicis junctis, 

 si nu lato; postieis majoribus, regulariter arcuatis, extus haud sinuatis, 

 postice sinu lato, alto, subapicem planato, haud laminato ; fissuris usque 

 ad apices sulcatis ; zona coriacea, Iseviore poris seriebus 2 circa suturas 

 et marginem, majoribus; seriebus inter valvas et irregulariter supra 

 zonam sparsis, minoribus; setis porarnm paucis, longioribus, haud 

 spinulosis. Lon. 75, Lat. 40 mm. [Cpr.) 



Hub. — " Japan," London dealer; Kuril Islands, Pallas and Steiler; 

 Farallones Islands, California, Newcomb ! Two specimens examined. 



This species probably has about the same distribution as C. Stelleri, 

 though much rarer, and may by collectors have been taken for an im- 

 perfect or immature specimen of that mollusk ; when dry, to a casual 

 glance they appear very similar, the minute apices of the valves being 

 hardly visible. The coating of the girdle is, however, of a wholly 

 different character. Dr. Carpenter would have reserved the name 

 Amicula Gray for this species, but that name cannot legitimately be 

 separated from its typical species (.vestita), which belongs in the other 

 subgenus. The ambient gills are the only sound character. The pores, 

 which gave Dr. Carpenter a great deal of unnecessary trouble, are in 

 this group not even of specific importance. I have only seen specimens 

 in Dr. Carpenter's hands, and insert his description of the characters. 

 It is doubtless one of the very rarest of the Chitons. Its nearest allies 

 are A. Pallasii and vestita. 



The figures given by Pallas are sufficient to identify the species very 

 well, but in his remarks he quotes notes by Steller, which refer to the 



