128 MR F. GORDON PEAROEY ON 



The test is of a lighter colour and rather coarser texture than the specimen figured in 

 fig. 1, PI. I. Off the west coast of Scotland, 50 to 90 fathoms, and sparingly in the 

 deep-water area of Loch Fyne. Off Skate Island, 100 to 107 fathoms. It has also been 

 taken off the coast of Norway (NORMAN), and doubtful specimens, probably belonging to 

 this species, were obtained on the Triton, 1882, in the Faroe Channel, 640 fathoms. 



Pelosina cylindrica, H. B. Brady. 



Specimens with tests more delicate in the structure of their walls and rather 

 smaller than the type specimen were obtained sparingly at Stations 313, 417, and 420. 

 Previously known from the North Atlantic, North and Western Pacific, off New Zealand, 

 and off the Antarctic Continent (Challenger}. 



Genus TECHNITELLA, Norman. 



Technitella raplianus, H. B. Brady. 



Two or three specimens answering to the description and figures given by BRADY 

 of this rare form were obtained from the Scotia material from Station 420. Obtained 

 by the CJiallenger off Kandavu, Fiji Islands, in 210 fathoms. 



Technitella asciformis, sp. nov. (Plate II. figs. 3-4.) 

 (Greek asJtos, a leather bottle.) 



Test free, flask-shaped, consisting of a single chamber, ovately curved at the apical 

 end ; produced to a short thick neck ; terminating in an everted phial-like lip grooved 

 on the inside ; aperture a small circular opening. Walls comparatively thick, composed 

 of fine spicular material and fine argillaceous cement, with a strong chitinous lining 

 which permits of the whole test becoming more or less flexible. 



Colour, gray. Length, - inch (3 mm.). 



Its beautiful symmetry of contour is that of an old-time leather bottle. There are 

 several fine slightly projecting ridges descending from beneath the everted lip to below 

 the shoulder, where they merge into the general structure of the wall. 



One specimen only was found, among the material from Station 420, 2620 fathoms. 



Genus THOLOSINA, Ehumbler. 

 Tholosina (Placopsilina) bulla, H. B. Brady. 



Several specimens of this peculiar little species were obtained from Station 420, 

 attached to Rhaltdammina abyssorum and Rhizammina mdivisa, the light-coloured 

 test showing up prominently against the darker-coloured walls of its hosts. It has 

 hitherto been recorded from the North and South Atlantic (BRADY) ; North Pacific 

 (BRADY, CUSHMAN) ; and taken in the Faroe Channel by the Triton, although not 

 recorded, in 5] 5 fathoms. 



(ROY. 8OC. EDIN. TKANS., VOL. XLIX., 10U2.) 



