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Suligenus 1. Acontas'parium, Haeckel. 

 Definition. — Plates of the shell not dimj:)!}-, without prominent crests. 



1. Acontaspift lanceohfa, n. sp. 



Shell thin walled, even, without crests and dimples between them, perforated by about three 

 hundred jJores of different sizes : forty aspinal pores elliptical, about as large as the irregular (fifty to 

 sixty) sutural pores, and two to four times as broad as the small circular coronal pores (eight to 

 twelve being on each plate, altogether about two hundred). Between the pores numerous short 

 conical by-spines. Eadial main spines lanceolate, about as long as the radius. (Similar to Coscinaspis 

 pcripora, PI. 138, fig. 1, but with broad lanceolate spines and numerous short by-spines 1.) 



Dimensions. — Diameter of the shell 015, a.spinal and sutural pores 0'012 to 0'015, coronal pores 

 0-004 to 0-008. 



Habitat. — South Atlantic, Station .325, surface. 



Subgenus 2. Acontas2')idium, Haeckel. 

 Definition. — Surface of the shell dimply, with a network of prominent crests. 



2. Acontaspis hastata, n. sp. (PI. 134, fig. 16). 



Shell thick walled, with numerous (one hundred and seventy to one hundred and ninety) 

 dimples, which are separated by an elevated network of prominent crests. In the centre of each 

 plate a larger dimpile with a couple of aspinal pores, surrounded by a corona of ten or twelve 

 smaller dimples, each of which contains a single pore (a coronal and sutural alternately). All pores 

 circular or roundish, nearly of the same size. If the shell lie quite regularly developed, there are 

 fifty to sixty sutural pores and one hundred to one hundred and ten coronal pores (six in each 

 equatorial plate, five in each of the other plates). The knobs of the meeting crests are conical, and 

 bear each a simple short by-spine. Eadial main spines compressed, at the distal end spear-shaped, 

 with a rhomboidal plate below the apex, about as long as the radius. 



Dimensions. — Diameter of the shell 0'18, of the pores and bars 0-01. 



Hahitat. — Western Tropical Pacific (off the Philippines), Station 215, 



3. Acontaspi.^ fiiircatn, n. sp. 



Shell thick walled, dimply, with a network of crests, of the same composition as in the foregoing 

 species, with one hundred and seventy to one hundred and ninety dimples (twenty aspinal, one 

 hundred to one hundred and ten coronal and fifty to sixty sutural dimples). All dimples and pores 

 nearly of the same size. Each node of the crested network bears a stout liy-spine, which is forked 



