REPORT ON THE RADIOLARIA. 8G7 



Dimensiom. — Jlajoi axis of the shell 01, miuor 0-08 ; length of the spines 0-06, of their 

 sheaths 0-04 



Habitat. — Arctic Ocean, Greenland, Koch, surface. 



4. Coleapsis occulta, n. sp. 



All twenty spines of nearly equal size and form, quite concealed in their long cylindrical 

 sheaths, which are somewhat longer than the radius of the shell, and armed on the truncated month 

 with acute simple teeth; each sheath deeply sulcated, apjiarently resulting from the concrescence of 

 numerous parallel leaf-shaped by-spines. Small shell very dark and thick-walled, quite opaque. 



Dimensions. — Major axis of the shell 0-08, minor 0'06 ; length of the spines and their sheaths 

 0-05 to 0-06. 



Hahitat. — Antarctic Ocean (off Kerguelen), Station 159, surface. 



Subgenus 2. Coleaspidium, Haeekel. 



Definition. — Both equatorial spines of the hydrotomical axis much larger and of 

 peculiar form, different from the eighteen other spines. 



5. Coleasjns amphilonche, n. sjd. 



Both equatorial spines of the hydrotomical axis much longer than the eighteen others, and of 

 very different form ; one and a half times as long as the diameter of the shell, prismatic, with six 

 prominent edges, pyramidal at the distal point. The eighteen other spines triangular, compressed, 

 two-edged, scarcely as long as the radius of the thick-walled shell. Pores of the shell irregular 

 ])olygonal, separated by ciliated crests, which bear simple by-spines (one-third as long as the 

 radius). 



Dimensions. — Major axis of the shell 015, minor 012 ; length of the two larger spines 0'22, 

 of the eighteen smaller 0-06 to 0-08 ; basal breadth of the former 0-03, of the latter 0-008. 



Habitat. — South Atlantic, Station 341, surface. 



6. Coleaspis hydrotomica, n. sp. (PI. 140, fig. 14). 



Both equatorial spines of the hydrotomical axis much larger than the eighteen others, and of 

 very different form ; about as long as the diameter of the shell, in the basal half four-sided 

 pyramidal, with four thick prominent edges, in the middle part constricted, in the distal half 

 lanceolate, two-edged. Both equatorial spines of tlie geotomical axis of similar form, but nnich 

 smaller, scarcely one-third as long. The sixteen other spines sword-like, thin, two-edged, about as 

 long as the radius of the thick-walled shell. Pores of the shell irregular roundish, separated by 

 high deutated crests, which bears zigzag by-spines (half as long as the radius). 



Dimensions. — Major axis of the shell 012, minor axis 01 ; length of the two larger spines 

 Oil, of the eighteen others O'Ol to 0-06 ; basal breadth of the former 0-04, of the latter O'Dl. 



Habitat. — Cape of Good Hope, Station 143, surface. 



