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different on the two poles of it. The prev'aleut number of rays on eacli end i.s three or four, often 

 also two or five, rarely six. All spicula smooth, more or less bent. 



dimensions. — Diameter of the capsules 01 to 0"2, length of the spicula 0'05 to 015. 



Habitat. — South West Pacific, Station 165, surface. 



Subgenus 3. Rhapliidonura, Haeckel. 



Definition. — Spicula of three different kinds : one kind simple, needle-shaped ; the 

 second kind radiate, with three to six shanks radiating fi'om a common central point; the 

 third kind geminate-radiate, with rays on both poles of a middle rod. 



11. Rhaphidozoutn polymorph u m , n. sp. 



Spicula of three different kinds ; simple needles, radiate, and geminate mixed. The simple 

 needles straight and stout. The radiate spicula commonly with three or six, rarely four or five, 

 rays. The geminate-radiate spicula prevalent, with three or four, rarely two or five, shanks on each 

 end of the middle rod. Number very variable. All shanks straight and smooth. 



Dimensions. — Diameter of the capsule 01 to 0'2, length of the spicula 0'05 to 015. 



Hahitat. — South Pacific, Station 295, surface. 



12. Rhaphidozoum pandora, n. sp. (PI. 4, fig. 6). 



Spicula of three different kinds ; simple needles, radiate and geminate mixed. The simple 

 needles thin spindle-shaped, often curved. The radiate spicula commonly with three or four, rarely 

 five or six, curved rays. The geminate-radiate spicula commonly with three or four, rarely two or 

 five, shanks on each end, often different on the two ends of the middle rod. Number and form very 

 variable. All or most of the .shanks more or less bent and thorny. 



Dimensions. — Diameter of the capsule 01 to 0'3, length of the spicula 0"05 to 0-2. 



Habitat. — South Atlantic (near Ascension Island), Station .343, surface. 



Order II. SPH^RELLARIA, Haeckel, 1881. 



Sphcerellaria, Haeckel, 1881, Prodromus, p. 421. 



SphoBridea vel Peripylea, Hertwig, 1879, Organismus der Radiol., jj. 133. 



Definition. — Spumellaria with latticed or spongy shell. 



The order Sphaerellaria, the second order of Radiolaria, comprises all those 

 Spumellaria in which the skeleton is a latticed or fenestrated, often more or less 

 .spongy, siliceous shell. Originally this shell is a simple extracapsular lattice-sphere, in 

 which the central capsule is included ; from this simple ancestral form an enormous 



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