82 BULLETIN 100, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Ammochilostoma ringens Eimer and Fickert, Zeitschr. wiss. Zool., vol. 65, 1889, 



p. 692. 

 Eaplophragmoides ringens Cushman, Bull. 71, U. S. Nat. Mue., pt. 1, 1910, p. 107, 



fig. 166 (in text). 



At one station, D5613, off Celebes, 752 fathoms (1,375 meters), 

 bottom temperature unrecorded, numerous typical and very fine 

 specimens of this species occurred, but it was not found in material 

 elseAvhere in the region. 



Haplophragmoides ringens — Material examined. 



HAPLOPHRAGMOIDES GRANDIFORMIS Cushman. 



Plate 11, fig. 2. 



Haplophragmoides grandi/ormis Cushman, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 38, 1910, 

 p. 440, fig. 11. 



Description. — Test free, involute, planospiral; chambers low and 

 broad, seven to nine in the last-formed coil, inflated; peripheral hne 

 of the test in side view considerably depressed at the sutures; wall 

 composed of rather coarse sand grains with a considerable propor- 

 tion of yellowish-brown cement, somewhat rough on the exterior; 

 aperture an elongate, curved slit at the base of the apertural face of 

 the chamber; color light brown. 



Diameter about 3 mm. 



Distribution. — Type specimen from Albatross station 5152, near the 

 Tawi Tawi group, 34 fathoms (62 meters). 



This is a large species somewhat resembling H. canariensis, but 

 involute with broad low chambers. 



It has occurred elsewhere in the region at D5277, China Sea, 

 vicinity of southern Luzon, 80 fathoms (147 meters), and D5369, 

 Molucca Sea, 1,560 fathoms (2,853 meters). Bottom temperatures 

 were not recorded in any cases. 



Haplophragmoides grandi/ormis — Material examined. 



