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5. Lithelius Solaris, n. sp. (PI. 49, fig. 2). 



Cortical shell spherical, covered with simple, very numerous (two hundred to three hundred) 

 bristle-shaped radial spines, longer than the diameter of the shell. Spiral turnings double, both of 

 the same breadth, gradually increasing with the growth of the shell and several times surpassing 

 the diameter of the simple spherical medullary shell. (PI. 49, fig. 2, exhibits only the first convolu- 

 tions in the centre of the sheU.) 



Dimensions. — Diameter of the cortical shell (with four spiral convolutions) 0'18 ; diameter of the 

 medullary shell 0"02. 



Habitat. — Pacific, central area. Stations 266 to 272, surface and in various depths. 



6. Lithelius arhorescens, n. sp. 



Cortical shell lentelliptical, one and a half times as long as broad, covered with numerous (fifty 

 to eighty or more) branched radial spines, about as long as the greatest diameter of the shell ; each 

 spine with two to four lateral branches, which are again branched or dichotomous. Spiral turnings 

 double, both of little different breadth, which increases considerably with the growth of the shell, 

 so that the third turn is four times as broad as the simple spherical medullary shell. 



Dimensions. — Length of the cortical shell (with three spiral convolutions) 018, breadth 0'12 ; 

 diameter of the medullary shell O'Ol. 



Hahitat. — North Atlantic, Fteroe Channel, surface, John Murray. 



Subfamily 2. Larcospirida, Haeckel. 



Definition. — L i t h e 1 i d a witli double, trizonal, or iar/iaci7^a-shaped medullary 

 shell. 



Gemis 306. Larcospira} n. gen. 



Definition. — L i t h e 1 i d a with double, trizonal, or Larnacilla-shsi^&di medullary 

 shell ; cortical shell subspherical or lentelliptical, constructed of a simple or double 

 spiral of the transverse gii'dle (or primary cortical girdle) ; the spiral lamella revolving 

 around the principal axis. 



The genus Larcospira begins the interesting series of the Larcospirida, or of those 

 Lithelida in which the medullary shell is formed by a trizonal or Larnacilla-sha]^ed lattice- 

 shell, and the cortical shell by spiral turnings of one of the three girdles, which compose 

 the cortical shell of the Pylonida. In Larcospira, as the oldest and most simple form of 

 Larcospirida, the spiral is formed by the transverse girdle, or the first girdle of the 

 Diplozonaria, the only cortical gii-dle of Amphip>yle. If in this genus one of both wings 

 of the transverse girdle grow stronger than the other and overgrow the latter, turning 



1 Larcospira = Spiral basket ; Tiajxo;, ainiQsc. 



