[SCIENTIFIC RESULTS OF THE PHILIPPINE CRUISE OF THE FISHERIES 

 STEAMER "ALBATROSS," 1907-1910.— No. 17.] 



N^W ARENACEOUS FORAMINIFERA FROM THE PHILIP- 

 PINE ISLANDS AND CONTIGUOUS WATERS. 



By Joseph A. Cushman, 



Of the Boston Society of Natural nistory. 



The species of arenaceous foraminifera described here are from the 

 dredgings of the U. S. Fisheries steamer Albatross about the Philip- 

 pine Islands and in contiguous waters, the material from which has 

 kindly been placed in my hands by the Bureau of Fisheries for the 

 description of the foraminifera. All but one of these species belong 

 to known genera but all are apparently undescribed. Some of them 

 are from Uttle-known genera and are for this reason very interesting, 

 as they add greatly to the known distribution of the genera to which 

 they belong. The plate gives figures of the various species. 



DENDROPHYRA RAMOSA, new species. 

 Plate 28, figs. 7, 8. 



Description. — Test large, laterally compressed, branching, wall with 

 a chitinous base over which there is a thick layer of mud or fine sand 

 and scattered sponge spicules ; apertures at the ends of the branch- 

 ing portions elliptical. 



Length 10 mm. or more. 



Type-specimen. — Cat. No. 8463, U.S.N.M., from Albatross station 

 D5385, Ragay Gulf, Luzon, 327 fathoms in gray mud, with a bottom 

 temperature of 62.4° F. Other stations at wliich this species oc- 

 curred are D5438, west coast of Luzon, 297 fathoms, green mud, 46.2° 

 F. bottom temperature; D5460, east coast of Luzon, 565 fathoms, 

 gray mud; D5470, 560 fathoms, mud; D5622, between Gillolo and 

 Makyan Islands, Dutch East Indies, 275 fathoms, gray mud. 



Tills species evidently belongs to the genus Dendrophyra as de- 

 scribed, but is much larger than either of the other two described 



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