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Subgenus 2. Spiremidium, Haeckel. 

 Definition. — Spiral convolutions of the cortical shell double. 



4. Spirema diplospiixt, n. sp. 



Cortical shell lentelliptical, with smooth surface ; proportion of its tliree dimensive axes 

 = 6:7:8. In the median plane are visible three perfect turnings of a double spiral, the breadth 

 of which gradually increases ; the broadest (third) convolution' three times as broad as the simple 

 lentelliptical medullary shell. 



Dimensions. — Length of the shell 0'24, breadth 0'21, height 0'18 ; meduUary shell 0'02. 



Habitat. — Tropical Pacific, PhUippines, Station 200, depth 250 fathoms. 



5. Spirema suhglohosum, u. sp. 



Cortical shell nearly spherical, with thorny surface ; proportion of its three axes = 2: 2"1 :2'2. 

 In the median plane are visible two perfect turnings of a double spiral, the breadth of which in the 

 second convolution is four times as great as that of the first convolution and the simple spherical 

 medullary shell. 



Dimensions. — Length of the shell 0'22, breadth 0'21, height 0'2 ; medullary sheU 0'02. 



Habitat. — Tropical Atlantic, off Sierra Leone, Station 348, depth (2450) fathoms. 



Genus 305. Lithelius,^ Haeckel, 1862, Monogr. d. Radiol, p. 519. 



Definition — L i t h e 1 i d a \d\h simple, spherical or subspherical, medullary sheD, 

 and lentelliptical or subspherical, spirally constructed cortical shell ; surface covered 

 with numerous, simple or branched, radial spines. 



The genus Lithelius, founded by me in 1862, and represented by two Mediterranean 

 species, was at that time the only known form of this family, which now contains 

 six genera and tw^enty -seven species. It differs from the foregoing Spirema in the 

 possession of numerous radial spines on the surface. These may be either simple or 

 branched. The sj)u\al may be simple or double, and according to this latter modifi- 

 cation we distinguish two different subgenera. 



Subgenus 1. LitJiospira, Haeckel. 

 Definition — Spiral convolutions of the cortical shell simple. 



1. Lithelms spiralis, Haeckel. 



Lithelhis spiralis, Haeckel, 1862, Monogr. d. Radiol., p. 519, Taf. xxvii. figs. 6, 7. 

 Cortical shell lentelliptical, one and a third times as long as broad, covered with very numerous 

 (one hundred to one hundred and fifty or more) simple, hristle-shaped radial spines, about as long 



1 Liihelius=^tony sun ; x/tfo?, »>(o,-. 



