TEXTULARIIDAE — TEXTULARIA. 23 



A glance at the figures in the literature referred to this species 

 will show that the name has been very loosely used, and many of 

 the specimens to which it has been referred are very different from 

 the types. 



Textularia candeiana d'Orbigny. 



(Plate 2, Figure 2.) 



Textularia candeiana d'Orbigny, in De la Sagra, Hist. Fis. Pol. Nat. Cuba, 1839, "Forami- 

 nifferes," p. 143, pi. 1, figs. 25 to 27. — Cushman, Bull. 71, U. S. Nat. Mus., pt. 2, 

 1911, p. 12, figs. 14 to 17 (in text); Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 59, 1921, p. 50, pi. 



11, figs. 7, 8. 



Test elongate, tapering rapidly from a very small pointed initial end to 

 the broad, swollen apertural end; chambers numerous, distinct; sutures 

 slightly depressed, oblique; wall arenaceous, early portion especially more or 

 less roughened; aperture an elongate arched slit at the base of the inner 

 margin of the last-formed chamber, with an overhanging lip; color white. 



Length of the Tortugas specimens 1 mm., or slightly more. 



The Tortugas specimens of this species are much more nearly 



typical than those which I have figured from off the Hawaiian 



Islands and more so than any of the other figures referred to this 



species. The species is common at a number of the stations and 



is easily distinguished from T. agglutinans by the rougher surface, 



lower chambers, and the rapidly increasing breadth and thickness 



toward the apertural end. D'Orbigny originally described it from 



Cuba, Martinique, and St. Thomas, and I have recorded it from 



Jamaica as well as from the Hawaiian Islands and the East Indian 



region. 



Textularia rugosa Reuss? 



(Plate 2, Figure 1.) 



There are a very few specimens of a large, stout species, one of 

 which is figured here (plate 2, fig. 1). In this species, especially 

 in the later-formed portion, the basal part of the chambers is 

 excavated, somewhat similar to Textularia rugosa Reuss. This 

 species, however, has not been found to be characteristic of the 

 West Indies, as it is of the Philippines and the East Indian region. 

 This material is too scanty to definitely determine what the relation- 

 ships of this form are. The others do not show the reentrants as 

 definitely. 



Textularia mayori, new species. 

 (Plate 2, Figure 3.) 



Test compressed, increasing rapidly in breadth, initial end rounded, 

 apertural end obliquely truncate; surface fairly smooth; chambers rather 

 indistinct; sutures slightly depressed; periphery of each chamber with an 

 elongate, conical, spinose projection, often broken at the tips, those of the 

 early portion directed backward, the later ones extending straight outward; 

 wall arenaceous, of angular sand-grains with much fine cement; aperture 

 very low, elongate, at the inner border of the last-formed chamber, in a 

 reentrant of the border, with a thin hp above; color gray. 



Length up to 0.80 mm. 



