78 BULLETIN 161, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Test free, of several chambers, irregularly arranged; wall arena- 

 ceous; aperture simple, terminal. 

 Recent. 

 There is a single species present in the collections. 



NOURIA POLYMORPHINOIDES Heron-Allen and Earland 



Plate 17, Figures 9 a, b 



Nouria polymorphinoides Heron-Allen and Earland, Trans. Zool. Soc. London, 

 vol. 20, pt. 12, p. 376, pi. 37, figs. 1-14, 1914 ; pt. 17, p. 615, 1915.— Cushman, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 56, p. 601, pi. 75, figs. 4, 5, 1919.— Heron-Allen 

 and Earland, British Antarctic Expedition, Zoology, vol. 6, p. 103, 1922. — 

 Cushman, Contr. Cushman Lab. Foram. Res., vol. 3, p. 189, 1927; Bull. 

 Scripps Inst. Oceanogr., Tech. Ser., vol. 1, p. 142, 1927. 



This species has now been recorded from several widely distributed 

 stations in the Indo-Pacific region from the east coast of Africa, 

 the western coast of America, and from off New Zealand. The 

 record given by Heron- Allen and Earland from the Eocene of Biar- 

 ritz 6 seems from the figures to be a different thing. The Indo- 

 Pacific material is definite in its general characters. Our specimens 

 are from Mokaujar Anchorage, Fiji, in comparatively shallow water. 

 They often have sponge spicules incorporated in the test as well as 

 other fragments of various sorts. These are usually neatly cemented, 

 and there are traces of sutures in most of the specimens. 



6 Halkyard, Mem. Proc. Manchester Lit. Philos. Soc, vol. 62, pt. 2, pi. 1, figs. 6, 7, 1918 

 (1919). 



