310 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1897. 



NODOSARIA FILIFORMIS d'Orbigny. 

 (Plate 55, fig. 6.) 



Long, slender, slightly curved, composed of numerous oval, smooth 

 segments joined in linear series; sutures moderately depressed and 

 transverse. Length, 3 to 4.5 mm. (J to ^ inch). 



Locality.— Gulf of Mexico (stations 2377, 2378, 2399, 2400), 68 to 210 

 fathoms. 



NODOSARIA CONSOBRINA, variety EMACIATA Reuss. 



(Plate 56, fig. 1.) 



Long, slender, slightly curved and tapering, composed of numerous 

 short, nearly cylindrical segments, arranged in linear series ; sutures 

 not depressed except near the oral end ; surface smooth. Length, 3 to 8 

 mm. (£ to ^ inch). 



Locality. — Gulf of Mexico (stations 2378, 2399), G8 and 196 fathoms. 



NODOSARIA SOLUTA Reuss. m 

 (Plate 56, fig. 3.) 



A rather stout shell, composed of globular or short-oval segments, 

 comparatively few in number, arranged in a straight or slightly curved 

 line; initial segment large and spherical; surface smooth, or some- 

 times bristly rough about the sutures; aperture a round opening with 

 short radiating fissures in the center of the protruding end of the 

 terminal segment. 



Localities. — Gulf of Mexico, North Atlantic, South Atlantic, Panama 

 Bay (stations 2385, 2394, 2550, 2679, 2760, 2784, 2805), 51 to 1,081 

 fathoms. 



NODOSARIA COMMUNIS d'Orbigny. 



(Plate 56, fig. 2.) 



Slender, tapering, curved; segments numerous, smooth; sutural lines 

 oblique, obvious, little if at all depressed. Length, 2 to 3 mm. (-£$ to £ 

 inch). 



Localities. — Off Nantucket Shoals, Gulf of Mexico, off Cape Fear, 

 west coast of Patagonia (stations 2041, 2377, 2679, 2784), 194 to 1,608 

 fathoms. 



NODOSARIA RCEMERI Neugeboren. 

 (Plate 56, fig. 5.) 



Elongate, cylindrical, or slightly tapering, rounded at the base; seg- 

 ments few; walls thin and transparent; sutures full and more or less 

 oblique, especially the earlier ones ; aperture terminal, radiate. Length, 

 1 to 4.5 mm. (^ to ^ inch). 



Localities. — Off Nantucket Shoals and at the mouth of Exuma Sound 

 (stations 2041, 2629), 1,608 and 1,169 fathoms. 



