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corner arises a short bristle-sliaped spine, twice as long as the tnbe, one-third as long as the radius. 

 (Very similar to Ethmosphcera conulosa, PI. 12, fig. 5, but cUfiers in the possession of radial spines.) 



DimcTisions. — -Diameter of the shell 0-2, pores 0-012, bars 0-006 ; length of the spines 0-04, of 

 the tubes 0-02. 



Habitat. — North Pacific, Station 253, sm-face. 



3. Coscinomma macros iphon, n. sp. 



Pores regular, circular, without hexagonal frames, of the same breadth as the bars, prolonged on 

 the outside of the shell into a long cylindrical tube, half as long as the radius (eight to nine pores on 

 the radius) ; between them bristle-shaped, at the base conical, radial spines of double length. 



Dimensions. — Diameter of the shell 0-16, pores and bars 0-008 ; length of the spines O'OS, of the 

 tubes 0-04. 



Habitat. — Central Pacific, Station 274, surface. 



Subgenus 3. Coscinommonium, Haeckel. 

 Definition. — Pores prolonged into internal tubes on the inside of the shell. 



4. Coscinomma endosiphon, n. sp. 



Pores regular, circular, hexagonally framed, twice as broad as the bars (fouiteen to sixteen on the 

 radius), prolonged on the inside of the shell into a short truncated cylindrical tube. In each hexagon- 

 corner arises a thin, bristle-shaped, radial spine with pyramidal base, half as long as the radius, 

 twice as long as the tube. 



Dimensions. — ^Diameter of the shell 0-25, pores 0-012, bars 0-006 ; lengfth of the spines 0-066, of 

 the tubes 0-0.3. 



Habitat. — South Pacific, Station 288, surface. 



Genus 92. Cladococcus,'^ J. Miiller, 1856, Monatsber. d. k. preuss. Akad. 



d. Wiss. Berlin, p. 485. 



Definition. — A s t r o s p h as r i d a with one simple lattice-sphere, covered -Rath 

 branched radial spines (the stem of the spine never forked). 



The genus Cladococcus, together with the following Elaphococcus, is distinguished 

 from the other Coscinommida by the ramification of the radial spines covering the 

 surface of the simple hollow lattice-sphere. In Cladococcus each spine sends out three 

 or more lateral branches, which are either simple or again ramified ; but the stem of 

 the spine itself is not forked, as in Elaphococcus. 



^ Cladococcus = Nucleus with branches ; xXaooj, x.6k.x.o; 



