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1. Discopyle oscidata, n. sp. (PI. 48, fig. 19). 



Disk circular, with spiny margin, three times as broad as the triangular, Triopyle-sh&^eA 

 meduUary shell. Three gates of the cortical shell l-;iclney-shaped, on the inside with an inter- 

 radial spine, twice as broad as the three pentagonal arms. Chambered equatorial girdle with 

 twenty-four subregular chambers, in the radius of one -odd gate with a large marginal osculum, 

 which is as broad as the medullary shell, and surrounded by a dense corona of twenty to thirty 

 strong conical spines. 



Dimensions. — Diameter of the dislc OlS, of the cortical sliell 01, of the medullary shell O'Oo, of 

 the marginal osculum O'OG. 



Habited. — Central Pacific, Station 272, depth 2600 fathoms. 



2. Discopyle elliptica, u. sp. (PI. 48, fig. 20). 



Disk elliptical, four-fifths as broad as long, with spiny margin, three times as broad as the 

 triangular, T?-iop3/fc-shaped medullary shell. Three gates of the cortical shell roundish, on the inside 

 with an interradial spine, little broader than the quadrangular ai-ms. Chambered equatorial girdle 

 with twenty to thirty irregular chambers, on one pole of the main axis witli a large marginal 

 osculum, whicli is one-tliird as broad as the length of the main axis, and armed witli a corona of 

 twenty to tliirty short conical spines. The osculum does not correspond to a certain radius. 



Dimensions. — Diameter of the disk 0'15, of the cortical shell 0'08, of the medullary shell 0'04, 

 of the marginal osculum O'Oo. 



Habitat. — Central Pacific, Station 267, depth 2700 fathoms. 



Family XXIII. Spongodiscida, Haeckel (PL 41, fig. 11). 



SpongodiscMa et Spoiir/ocych'da, Haeckel, 1862, Mouogr. d. Radiol., pp. 452, 460, 469. 



Spongodiscida, Haeckel, 1881, Prodromus, p. 461. 



Calodictya, Ehrenberg, 1847, Monatsber. d. k. preuss. Akad. d. "Wiss. Berlin, p. 53 (partim). 



Definition. — Discoidea without a phacoid shell, with aflat discoidal shell, in 

 which a simple spherical central chamber is surroimded by au irregular spongy framework 

 (sometimes with concentric rings around tlie central chamber). Surface of the disk 

 quite spongy, without porous sieve-plates. 



The family Spongodiscida is the sixth and hxst family of the Discoidea, and 

 bears to the other families of this group the same relation as the family Spongosphserida 

 does to the other S p h a3 r o i d e a, or the Spongurida to the other P r u n o i d e a. 

 Its characteristic structure consists in the irregular spongy framework of the disk, and 

 mainly in the rough, irregular shape of its spongy surface, which is never covered with 

 porous plates (neither phacoid shell nor corresponding sieve-plates), as in all other 

 Discoidea. Of course a little spongy structure occurs also in many Porodiscida 



