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shallowest stations, Montego Bay, stations 1 and 2, and Runaway 

 Bay. 



D'Orbigny's figure is perhaps a little too smooth and even, but it 

 shows the characteristic outline and apertural region of the species. 

 The chambers are angled and well set apart from one another, as is 

 well shown in the type figures. 



This seems certainly a species which should be revived at least for 

 the West Indian material, which is like nothing else and was well 

 characterized and figured by d'Orbigny. D'Orbigny's types were 

 from Cuba, and as it is found at both localities in Jamaica it un- 

 doubtedly has a wider range in the shallow water of the West Indian 

 region. This species is very close to V. davidiana Chapman, from 

 Funafuti Atoll, Ellice Islands. 



This is evidently the same as the material I have referred to 

 Verncuilina affixa from the coast of Florida. 5 It has a wide range 

 in the West Indian region and in the Gulf of Mexico, and is very 

 constant in its characters. 



Either this species is closely allied to V. davidiana Chapman, or 

 else both represent a single species of wide tropical distribution. 



Genus VIRGULINA d'Orbigny, 1826. 



VIRGULINA PUNCTATA d'Orbigny. 



Plate 11, fig. 15. 

 Virgulina punctata d'Orbigny, Foram. Cuba, 1839, p. 139, pi. 1, figs. 35, 36. 



This species, recorded by d'Orbigny from Cuba and Jamaica, has 

 occurred in the material from Montego Bay at station 5. This is 

 another of d'Orbigny's species allowed to lapse without being used 

 as a synonym. It is very clearly the species found in this material 

 and as such should be used for the recent West Indian form. The 

 figure given by d'Orbigny with the narrow oblique chambers is a 

 very good representation of the Montego Bay specimen. 



It is quite likely that the specimens I have referred to V. squamosa 



from Fort Jefferson Channel, Tortugas, Florida, 6 may belong to this 



species. 



Genus CLAVULINA d'Orbigny, 1826. 



CLAVULINA TRICARINATA d'Orbigny. 



Plate 12, figs. 1, 2. 



Clavulina angularis d'Orbigny, Ann. Sci. Nat., vol. 7, 182G, p. 268, pi. 12, fig. 7. 

 Clavulina tricarinata d'Orbigny, Foram. Cuba, 1839, p. Ill, pi. 2, figs. 16-18. 



The original specimens of d'Orbigny's Clavulina angularis were 

 from the Mediterranean, from the shores of the Island of Corsica. 



The figure shows an elongate test, the early portion of which is 

 triangular in cross section, the later chambers rounded after the 



» Papers from the Department of Marine Biology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, vol. 9, 1918 

 pp 271, etc. 

 6 Idem. p. 284. 



