8b Transaction*. 



This species is not at all common, but typical speci- 

 mens occur, measuring about 3 mm. in length. It has been 

 already recorded from the Southern Ocean, and is more com- 

 monly found in the Southern Hemisphere. 



Clavulina rudis, Costa sp. 



Glandulma rudis, Costa, 1857, Mem. R. Ace. Sc. Napoli. 



vol. ii, p. 142, pi. i, rig. 12. 

 Clavuiina cylindrica, Hantken, 1875, Mittheil. Jahrb. d. k. 



ung. geol. Anstalt, vol. iv, p. 18. pi. i, fig. 8. 

 C. rudis, Costa sp., Fornasini. 1883, Boll. Soc. Geol. Ital., 



vol. ii, p. 184, pi. ii, fig. 4. A. Silvestri. 1904, Mem. 



d. Pontif. Accad. Rom. d. Nuovi Lincei. vol. xxii, p. 259, 



p. 262, text-figs. 8-10. 



Several specimens were found, agreeing m all essentials 

 with the forms figured by previous authors. 



The "Challenger" discovered this species (recorded as 

 C. cylindrica by Brady) on the west coast of New Zealand, 

 at 275 fathoms. 



Clavulina soldanii, Jones and Parker sp. 



Lttuola soldanii, Jones and Parker, I860, Quart. Journ. 



Geol. Soc, vol. xvi, p. 307, No. 184. 

 Haylostiche soldanii, J. and P. sp., Brady, 1884, Rep. Chalh, 



vol. ix, p. 318, pi. xxxii, figs. 12-18. 

 Clavulina 'soldanii, J. and P. sp., Goes, 1896, Bull. Mus. 



Comp. Zool. Harvard, vol. xxix, No. 1, pt. xx, p. 37, 



pi. iv, figs. 39-46. 



Goes has shown that certain slender forms of this species 

 exhibit a definite valvuline aperture, whilst others have a 

 modified labyrinthic opening. 



Our specimens clearly display the valvuline character of the 

 aperture. 



Not uncommon. 



Subfamily Buliminin.e. 

 Genus Bulimina, d'Orbigny. 

 Bulimina pyrula, d'Orbigny. 



Bulimina pyrula, d'Orbignv, 1846, Foraro. Foss. Vienne, 



p. 184, pi. xi, figs. 9, 10. Flint, 1899, Rep. U.S. Nat. 



Mus. (1897), p. 290, pi. xxxvi, figs. 4, 5. Millett, 1900, 



Journ. R. Micr. Soc, p. 275. 



Several specimens, with thin glassy tests, occur in the 

 present series. 



B. pyrula was also found at station 169 by the " Chal- 



lenger." 



