TROPICAL PACIFIC FORAMtNIFERA OF "ALBATROSS" 7 



doubt, Millett figures some very strange forms with lobed chambers 

 and the early portions possibly not entirely uniserial. Our specimens 

 have been too few to warrant the making of sections to determine the 

 structure of this early part, and this generic position must remain 

 doubtful until sufficient material can be obtained for sectioning. 



Family BULIMINIDAE 

 Subfamily Turrilininae 



Genus BULIMINELLA Cushman, 1911 



BuUminella Cushman, U. S. Nat, Mus, Bull. 71, pt. 2, p. 88, 1911. 



Genoholotype. — Bulimina elegantissima d'Orbigny. 



Test an elongate close spiral, the spiral suture distinct; chambers 

 three or usually more in a whorl; wall calcareous, perforate; aperture 

 elongate, loop-shaped, very slightly twisted. Cretaceous to Recent. 



BUUMINELLA MILLETTI Cnshinan 



Plate 3, Figures 1-4 



BuUminella milletti Cushman, Contr. Cushman Lab. Foram. Res., vol. 9, p. 78, 



pi. 8, figs. 5, 6, 1933. 

 Bulimina elegantissima var. Sidebottom, Mem. Proc. Manchester Lit. Philos. 



Soc, vol. 49, No. 5, p. 11, pi. 2, figs. 7-12; pi. 3, figs. 1, 2, 1905. 



Test small, tapering, initial end bluntly rounded, increasing in 

 diameter toward the apertural end, consisting of two or three whorls; 

 chambers distinct, four or more making up the last whorl, slightly 

 inflated; sutures distinct, flush with the surface or slightly depressed, 

 especially the spiral suture, slightly limbate; wall smooth, very finely 

 perforate; aperture a semielliptical opening at the base of the apertural 

 face which is broadly rounded with slight ridges running into the 

 depressed area at the center. Length, 0.30 mm.; diameter, 0.15- 

 0.20 mm. 



The types are from Mokaujar Anchorage, Fiji. The species occurs 

 at various localities in the Fiji Islands, Pago Pago Harbor, Samoa, 

 Zanzibar, Montego Bay, Jamaica, the Dry Tortugas, and St. Johns, 

 Antigua. It has been reported by Sidebottom from the Island of 

 Delos. The species also occurs in the shallow-water samples from 

 12 fathoms, Levuka, Fiji; 12 and 24 fathoms, Nairai, Fiji; 18 fath- 

 oms, Vavau Anchorage, Tonga Islands; off Niau and Niau Lagoon, 

 Rongelap Atoll, Marshall Islands; 7 fathoms, Rotonga; Port Lotten, 

 Kersail, Caroline Islands; and 21 fathoms, Guam Anchorage, Ladrone 

 Islands. It did not occur at any of the deeper Albatross stations. 



The species is larger, more tapering, and has fewer whorls than 

 BuUminella parallela Cushman and Parker, 



