EEPORT ON THE RADIOLARIA, 1899 



2. Cecryphalium sestrodiscus, u. sp. (PI. 58, fig. 1). 



Shell very flat, subcorneal, nearly discoidal, with two distinct strictures. Length of the three 

 joints = 1:2:1, breadth = 1 : 8 : 10. Cephalis kidney-shaped, very small. Thorax flat, campanu- 

 late, with curved lateral outline ; its pores irregular, polygonal, increasing in size towards the girdle. 

 Abdomen horizontally expanded, hke the brim of a hat, with five to six concentric, circular rows of 

 pores, the pores of the inner rows twice to three times as large as those of the outer rows. (The 

 inner circle of large, oblongish, quadrangular pores, characteristic of the preceding species, is here 

 divided into three concentric rings by two circular hoops.) 



Dimensions. — Length of the three joints, a 0-02, h 0-04, c 0-02; breadth, a 0-02, h 0-15, c 0-2. 



HaMtat. — Central Pacific, Station 274, surface. 



Genus 613. Theoconus,^ n. gen. 



Definition. — T h e o c o r i d a (vel Tricyrtida eradiata aperta) with conical abdomen, 

 gradually dilated towards the wide open mouth. Cephalis with a single horn. 



The genus TJieoconus, and the following closely allied Lophoconus, differ from the 

 other Theocorida in the conical or campanulate form of the shell ; the abdomen is a 

 truncated cone, gradually dilated towards the terminal mouth. The latter is usually 

 truncated, widely open, sometimes with a slightly constricted peristome. The cephalis of 

 Theoconus bears a single apical horn. 



Subgenus 1. Tlieocorax, Haeckel. 



Definition. — Pores of the thorax and of the abdomen of nearly equal size and 

 simdar form. 



1. Theoconus zancleus, Haeckel. 



Eucyrtidiyni zandeum, J. Miiller, 1858, Abhandl. d. k. Akad. d. Wiss. Berlin, p. 41, Taf. vi. 



figs. 1-3. 

 Eucyrtidium zandeum, Haeckel, 1862, Monogr. d. EadioL, p. 321. 



Shell bell-shaped, nearly conical, smooth. Length of the three joints = 1:3:4, breadth = 1 : 4 : 6. 

 Cephalis nearly spherical, with a stout, straight, pyramidal horn of the same length. Thorax hemi- 

 spherical. Abdomen gradually increasing in breadth towards the wide truncated mouth. Pores 

 in all three joints nearly of the same shape, circular, regular, four times as broad as the thin bars. 



Dimensions. — Length of the three joints, a 0-027, h O'OS, c 01 ; breadth, a 0'03, b 0'12, c 018. 



Habitat. — Mediterranean (Messina, Naples, Nice, &c.). 



' Theoconus = Divine cone ; $i6s, xcJuo;. 



