NODOSARIINAE 385 



255. Nodosaria pauperata (d'Orbigny). 



Dentalina pauper ata, d'Orbigny, 1846, FFV, p. 46, pi. i, figs. 57, 58. 

 Nodosaria pauperata, Brady, 1884, FC, p. 500, text-figs. 14 a:, b, c. 



Fifteen stations: 230, 235, 388; WS 76, 80, 91, 92, 97, 98, 99, 215, 217, 225, 248, 408. 



Occasional specimens, often very large, and then generally broken. Except at 235 

 and WS 99 and 408, all the specimens are megalospheric. At WS 99 and 408, both 

 megalospheric and microspheric specimens occur; at 235 the microspheric form only. 

 The finest specimens are from 235 and WS 215 and 217. The Paris Type is missing. 



256. Nodosaria soluta (Reuss). 



Dentalina soluta, Reuss, 1851, FSUB, p. 60, pi. iii, fig. 4. 



Nodosaria soluta, Brady, 1884, FC, p. 503, pi. Ixii, figs. 13-16; pi. l.xiv, fig. 28. 



Five stations: 228; WS 76, 245, 248, 433. 



An occasional specimen only, the best at WS 248. All megalospheric. 



257. Nodosaria capitata, Boll. 



Nodosaria capitata. Boll, 1846, GDO, p. 177, pi. ii, fig. 13. 



Nodosaria capitata, Reuss, 1855, TNMD, p. 223, pi. i, fig. 4 ; 1865, FDO, p. 454, pi. i, figs. 8-10. 



Nodosaria capitata, Millett, 1898, etc., FM, 1902, p. 517, pi. xi, fig. 6. 



One station: 6 April 30. 54° 35' 30" S, 61° 25' 00" W. 320 m. 



A single megalospheric fragment of three chambers. The species is apparently very 

 rare in the recent condition, indeed Millett 's record of a single fragment from the 

 Malay Archipelago appears to constitute the only published record. But it is not un- 

 common at several " Goldseeker" stations in deep v^^ater round the Scottish coast, and 

 we have also specimens in our collection from "Challenger" station (No. uncertain), ^ 

 620 fms., and from the Bay of Naples, 1000 m. The species has many synonyms, of which 

 Millett (supra) gives a selection. 



258. Nodosaria pellita, Heron-Allen and Earland (Plate XII, figs. 3, 4). 

 Nodosaria pellita, Heron-Allen and Earland, 1922, TN, p. 173, pi. vi, figs. 28, 29. 



Three stations: WS 83, 221, 248. 



Two specimens exactly comparable with the Type were found at WS 248. At WS 221 

 a single specimen from which the characteristic outer layer had almost entirely dis- 

 appeared, leaving a very feeble hispid surface. A specimen in the same condition was 

 found at WS 83, but this ran to four chambers arranged in a slightly curved series (fig. 4). 

 The original description of the species , which was based on specimens dredged at 289 fms . 

 off the Continental Shelf to the south-east of New Zealand (51° 30' 04" S, 172° i2'oo"E), 

 will therefore require amendment in respect of the number of chambers, which was 

 stated to be "two only". 



' Our slide (from the Millett collection) is labelled "Chall. 8", but Challenger Stn. 8 is in the mid- 

 Atlantic, 2700 fms. 



