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HIROSHI OIISIIIMA : 



Sagami Bay (Takeyama over Kurozaki), 40 fms. : a single 

 specimen (Mitsukuri). 



Southern part of Osaka Bay, about 8 fms. : a single specimen 

 (K. AOKi coll., Mar. 8, 1903. Sci. Coll., Spec. No. 1746). 



I have examined the last named specimen, and I may here put 

 down some points which differ from, or are not mentioned in, the 

 descriptions given by v. Marenzeller and MlTSUKURl. 



The specimen (Pl. I., fig. 5) is strongly contracted, being of a 

 thick spindle-like shape. Length 71 mm., breadth 39 mm., and 

 height 32 mm, The skin is thick and stiff, rough to the touch, and 

 full of creases. Wart-like contracted pedicels white, creases of a 

 reddish brown color. Of the twenty greyish black tentacles, ten are 

 large and the rest small. In the introvert tables (textfig. 5, b— d) 

 (inly are found. The disk is of an irregular shape, ranging in 

 diameter 0.09 — 0.13 mm. but most commonly o. 10— 0.12 mm. Holes 

 number 12 — 15, sometimes even more than 40; spire consisting of 



Textfig. 5. 



Phyllophorits japonicus (v. Marenzeller). a Anterior parts of the right 

 ventral radial segment of the calcareous ring, with an adjoining interradial 

 segment, seen from axial side. /' — c Tables from introvert, seen from above; 

 d same seen from side, c Table from tentacle, seen from side, (a x 3, b—e 

 X300). 



