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1. Pipettaria fusaria, n. sp. 



Cortical shell spindle-shaped, the middle ellipsoidal part gently passing over on Ijoth poles 

 into the conical tubes, which attain about half its length. Pores regular, circular, twice as broad as 

 the bars, sixteen to eighteen on the half equator ; pores of the tubes smaller. Both medullary 

 shells spheroidal, compressed. (The appearance of the cortical shell resembles that of Cannart/iscm 

 amphiconus, PI. 39, fig. 19, but without the equatorial constriction.) 



Dimensions. — Main axis of the ellipsoid 0"15, equatorial axis 0"13 ; length of the polar tubes 

 0'08, basal breadth 00.5 ; pores of the former O'OOS, bars 0'004 ; diameter of the medullary shells 

 0-04 and 0-02. 



Habitat. — South Pacific, Station 300, depth 1375 fathoms. 



2. Pipettaria tuharia, n. sp. (PI. 39, fig. 15). 



Cannartidium tubarium, Haeckel, 1882, Atlas (pi. xxxix. fig. 15). 



Cortical shell ellipsoidal, on both poles distinctly separated from the short conical tubes, the 

 length and breadth of which equal the outer medullary shell. In the equatorial plane arises a 

 circle of four to six short conical protuberances, similar to the polar tubes. Pores subregular, 

 circular, or roundish, scarcely broader than the bars, sixteen to twenty on the half equator. Both 

 medullary shells spheroidal, somewhat compressed in the direction of the two poles (as in fig. 18ff). 



Dimensions. — -Main axis of the ellipsoid 0'12, equatorial axis 0"09 ; pores 0"005, bars 0'004 ; 

 size of the equatorial protuberances and of the polar tubes 0'02. 



Habitat. — Pacific, central area. Station 265, depth 2900 fathoms. 



Family XIII. Spongurida, Haeckel (PL 48, figs. 6, 7). 



Spongurida, Haeckel, 1862, Monogr. d. Radiol., p. 447 {sensu emendato). 



Definition. — Pruuoidea with spongy ellipsoidal or cyliudrical shell, composed 

 wholly or partially of a spongy framework, without equatorial stricture, with or 

 without an enclosed medullary shell. 



The family Spongurida comprises, in the sense here restricted, all those P r u n- 

 o i d e a in which the ellijisoidal or cylindrical shell is composed wholly or partially 

 of an irregular siliceous framework, not of simple lattice-work. It contains two sub- 

 families, diff"ering in the absence or presence of a latticed meduUary shell in the middle 

 of the central capsule ; in the Spongellipsida it is absent, in the Spongodruppida 

 present ; the former are most nearly related to the EUipsida, the latter to the Druppu- 

 lida, the difi"erence consisting only in the spongy structure of the cortical shell. 



In my Monograph (1862, p. 447) the family Spongurida had a much wider extent, 

 comprising also a number of S p h 93 r o i d e a and D i s c i d e a, agreeing in the spongy 



