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Test elongate, club-shaped, the early portion narrow, much com- 

 pressed, the edges almost carinate, tapering gradually to the rounded 

 apex ; chambers numerous, those of the early portion somewhat com- 

 pressed, later ones enlarging very rapidly, and the final ones becom- 

 ing much inflated; sutures of the later portion fairly distinct and 

 considerably oblique, very slightly depressed; wall rather coarsely 

 arenaceous especially in the early portion, often obscuring the 

 sutures; aperture in a broad, shallow sinus at the base of the inner 

 margin of the chamber. Length, up to 1 mm.; breadth, up to 0.6 

 mm.; thickness, 0.5 mm. 



This species is common in the West Indian region, from which it 

 was originally described by d'Orbigny. It occurs also in typical 

 form in the Pacific. It may be distinguished from the following 

 species {agglutinans) by the greater obliquity of the sutures and by 

 the very rapid expansion of the chambers toward the apertural end 

 together with the characteristic roughness of the surface of the early 

 chambers. In the Pacific material examined this species and T. 

 agglutinans occur together very rarely, the latter occurring in the 

 Fiji collections but the former apparently absent. 



Our records for T. candeiana include the following localities: 

 Makemo Lagoon, Paumotus; Rangiroa; Rutavu; Port Lotten, Ker- 

 sail, Caroline Islands; Rongelap Atoll, Marshall Islands; Guam 

 Anchorage, Ladrone Islands, 21 fathoms; and the following Alba- 

 tross stations: H3814, latitude 15° 14' 10" S., longitude 147° 51' 

 05" W., 391 fathoms off the Paumotus; H3855, off Apataki Island, 

 Paumotus, 654 fathoms; H3889, off Taenge Atoll, Paumotus, 928 

 fathoms ; and H3898, off Hikueru Atoll, Paumotus, 348 fathoms. 



TEXTULARIA AGGLUTINANS d'Orbigny 



Plate 2, Figures 5-7 



Textularia agglutinans d'Orbigny, in De la Sagra, Hist. Fis. Pol. Nat. Cuba, 

 " Foraminiferes," p. 136, pi. 1, figs. 17, 18, 32, 34, 1839.— H. B. Brady, Rep. 

 Voy. Challenger, Zoology, vol. 9, pi. 43, figs. 1 a, 6 (var. 2, 3), 1884.— Goes, 

 Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 29, p. 41, 1896.— Flint (part), Rep. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., 1897, p. 284, pi. 29, fig. 4, 1899.— Cushman, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 71, 

 pt. 2, p. 9, figs. 10 a, 6 (in text), 1911; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 59, p. 49, 

 pi. 11, figs. 1-3, 1921 ; U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 100, vol. 4, p. 106, pi. 20, fig. 8, 

 1921 ; Carnegie Inst. Washington Publ. 311, p. 22, pi. 1, fig. 6, 1922 ; U. S. 

 Nat. Mus. Bull. 104, pt. 3, p. 7, pi. 1, figs. 4, 5, 1922; Carnegie Inst. Wash- 

 ington Publ. 344, p. 76, 1926. 



Test elongate, tapering, very little compressed, periphery rounded, 

 the increase in diameter from the initial end rather uniform ; cham- 

 bers inflated, increasing somewhat in height toward the apertural 

 end rather uniformly; sutures distinct, depressed, usually about at 



