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horu, wliicli is completely reduced, and may therefore be regarded as the simplest 

 prototype of all tripodal C y r t e 1 1 a r i a without a horn. 



Subgenus 1. Tristylospyrula, Haeckel. 

 Definition. — Feet simple, not branched nor forked. 



1. Tristylospyris 2Jahnipes, n. sp. (PL 84, fig. 14). 



Shell companulate, smooth, with slight sagittal stricture. Pores irregular roundish, three pairs 

 of larger annular pores on each side of the broad ring. Basal plate with four large collar pores. 

 Feet half as long as the shell, sKghtly divergent, straight, prismatic, with a broad, hand-like, radially 

 striped plate at the distal end. 



Dimensions. — Shell 0*1 long, 0"09 broad ; feet 0"06 long. 



HcAitat. — Equatorial Atlantic, Station 347, depth 2250 fathoms. 



2. Tristylospyris scaphipes, n. sp. (PI. 84, fig. 13). 



Shell nut-shaped, smooth, with sharp sagittal stricture. Pores very small and numerous, 

 circular; two pairs of larger pores on both sides of the ring. Basal plate with four large pores (?). 

 Feet about half as long as the shell, angular, shovel-shaped, straight, parallel, vertical. 



Dimensions. — Shell 0'06 long, 0'08 broad ; feet 0'04 long. 



Habitat. — North Pacific, Station 244, depth 2900 fathoms. 



3. Tristylospyris davipes, u. sp. (PI. 84, fig. 15). 



Shell nut-shaped, rough, with deep sagittal stricture. Pores small, subregular circular. Basal 

 plate with three large poi'es. Feet about as long as the shell, slender, straight, divergent, with a 

 spinidate knob at the thickened distal end. 



DimensioTis. — Shell O^OG long, 0"08 broad ; feet O'Oo long. 



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



4. Tristylospyris triceros, Haeckel. 



Ceratospyris triceros, Elirenberg, 1875, Abhandl. d. k. Akacb d. Wiss. Berlin, p. 66, Taf. xxi. 

 fig. 5. 



Shell nut-shaped, tuberculate, without external sagittal stricture. Pores circular, not numerous. 

 Basal plate with four large collar pores. Feet large, cylindrical, three to four times as long as the 

 shell, strongly curved and divergent. 



DimeTisions. — Shell O^OS long, 0'07 broad ; feet 0-1.5 to 0-2 long. 



Habitat. — Fossil in Barbados. * 



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