Dedicated to Professor Sigeru MIZOHΛTΛ on his sixtieth birthday § 1. IntroductionThe problem to determine the Gevrey index of solutions of a given hypoelliptic partial differential equation seems to be not yet well investigated. In this paper, we shall show the Gevrey indices of solutions of the equations of Grushin type, [6], are determined by a rather simple application of a straightforward extension of the results given in [7], [8] and [13]. For simplicity to construct left parametrices in the operator valued sense, we shall consider the equations under the stronger condition than that of [6] (cf. Condition 1 of Section 3). Typical examples of Grushin type are given by., which will be discussed in Section 4. We remark that our approach may be compared with the one to a similar problem discussed in [17] by using suitable L 2 -estimates constructed in [16].In Section 2, we prepare some direct extension of the results given in [13] on partial regularity of the distributions and those on pseudodifferential operators given in [7]. In Section 3, we shall establish a method to treat the equations of Grushin type. Finally, Section 4 will be devoted to a discussion on typical examples of Grushin type and to a brief comment on the application of our method for more general class of hypoelliptic partial differential equations. §2. Partial regularity and a class of pseudodifferential operatorsIn this Section, we shall give some refinement of the results in [7] and [13]. Let Ω be an open subset of R N whose point is denoted by x = (x u , x N ). Let q = (q u , q N ) be a iV-tuple of real numbers q 3 ^> 1, j = 1, , N. We use general notations such as \a\ = a x + + a N9 (ξ> = (β) q = 1 + |fi|