In the earlier paper we treated a magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium of a long plasma cylinder by making use of the London equation and found that the plasma cylinder is almost confined in the radius of the several times the penetration depth r
0 (= (m
e/μ
0n
0 e
2)
1/2). We shall here discuss an equilibrium configuration of a ring form plasma, using the toroidal coordinates (r, ν, ψ) in which j
r=B
r=O (where j is the current density and B the magnetic field). Numerical calculations show that profiles of equi-macroscopic quantity, just as the equi-number density, the equi-magnetic field and so on, are shifted from the center of tube towards away from the ring axis.
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