70 BULLETIN 104, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Distribution. — Goes described this variety from the following 

 stations: Caribbean Sea, 1,345 fathoms rare; Albatross H58, 1,345 

 fathoms, about 35 miles west off Santa Cruz, 17° 45' N., 65° 35' W., 

 in globigerma ooze. 



Genus THUEAMMINA H. B. Brady, 1879. 



Thurammina H. B. Brady (type, T. papiUata H. B. Brady), Quart. Joura, Micr. 

 Sci., vol. 19, 1879, p. 45. — Butschli, in Bronn, Klafisen und Ordnungen des 

 Thierreicha, vol. 1, 1S80, p. 202.— H. B. Brady, Rep. Voy. Challenger, 

 Zoology, vol. 9, 1884, p. 321.— Gushman, Bull. 71, U. S. Nat. Mus., pt. 1, 

 1910, p. 57. 



Thyrammina Rhumbler, Arch. Prot., vol. 3, 1903, p. 230. 



Lituola W. B. Carpenter (part), The Microscope, ed. 5, 1875, p. 533. 



Description. — Test typically free, usually nearly spherical, but in 

 some species compressed, chamber single and undivided in typical 

 species; wall thin, composed of fine sand with more or less chitin; 

 apertures several to manj^ at the end of nipplelike protuberances of 

 the surface, occasionally wanting. 



Several species occur in the Atlantic, some of them, so far as known, 

 of restricted distribution. 



THURAMMINA PAPILLATA H. B. Brady. 



Plate 28, figs. 10, 11. 



"Orbuline Lituola" W. B. Carpenter, The Microscope, ed. 5, 1875, p. 533, 

 figs. 273(7, ^■ 



Thurammina papillala H. B. Brady, Quart. Journ. Micr. Sci., vol. 19, 1879, 

 p. 45, pi. 5, figs. 4-8. — W. B. Carpenter, The Microscope, ed. 6, 1881, 

 p. 561, figs. 320^, h. — H. B. Brady, Rep. Voy. Challenger, Zoology, vol. 9, 

 1884, p. 321, pi. 38, figs. 7-18.— Egger, Abh. bay. Akad. Wiss. Miinchen, 

 vol. 18, 1893, p. 263, pi. 5, fig. 9.— Chapman, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 1895, p. 17.— Goes, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 29, 1896, p. 25.— Flint, 

 Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1897 (1899), p. 278, pi. 22, fig. 1.— Earland, Journ. 

 Quekett Micr. Club, ser. 2, vol. 9, 1905, p. 201, pi. 11, figs. 6, 7; pi. 14, figs. 

 1, 3. — Chapman and IIowchin, Mem. geol. Surv. N. S. Wales, vol. 14, 1905, 

 p. 9, pi. 2, fig. 13.— CusHMAN, Bull. 71, U. S. Nat. Mus., pt. 1, 1910, p. 58, 

 fig. 68 (in text). — Heron-Allen and Earland, Proc. Roy. Irish Acad., 

 vol. 31, pt. 64, 1913, p. 47. — Pearcey, Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh, vol. 49, 



1914, p. 1003. — Heron-Allen and Earland, Trans. Zool. Soc, vol. 20, 



1915, p. 617. 



Thyrammina papillata Rhumbler, Arch. Prot., vol. 3, 1903, p. 238, figs. 68a-c 

 (in text.) 



Description. — Test typically free, occasionally adherent, generally 

 spherical, or when attached the lower surfa(;e flattened or otherwise 

 modified to conform to the surface to which it is attached; usually 

 consisting of a single undivided chamber but occasionally with one 

 or more other chambers included in the outer one; wall very thin, 

 composed of sand grains very neatly cemented with an abundance 

 of reddish or yellowish brown cement; apertiu'es numerous, irregularly 

 scattered over the surface, situated at the ends of nipplelike projec- 



