142 BULLETIN 100, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



VERNEUILINA TRIQUETRA (MUnster.) 



Textularia triquetra Munster, (in Romer), Neues Jahrb. fiir Min., 1838, p. 384, 



pi. 3, fig. 19. 

 Textularia {Verneuilina) triquetra Parker and Jones, Ann. Mag Nat. Hist., ser. 3, 



vol. 11, 1863, p. 92. 

 Verneuilina triquetra H. B. Brady, Rep. Voy. Challenger, Zoology, vol. 9, 1884, 



p. 383, pi. 47, figs. 18-20. 



The only record for this species in the region is D5586, vicinity 

 Sibuko Bay, Borneo, 347 fathoms (G35 meters), bottom tempera- 

 ture 44° F. (6.4° C). 



Brady records it from the Pacific in 210 and 255 fathoms (384 and 

 466 meters) off Kandavu, Fiji Islands. 



Verneuilina triquetra — Material examined. 



Cat. 

 No. 



Coll. of- 



No. of 

 speci- 

 mens. 



D5586.. 



Local! I V. 



4 06 50 N.; 118 47 20 E.. 



Depth 



in 

 fath- 

 oms. 



Bot- 

 tom 

 tem- 

 pera- 

 ture. 



347 



' F. 

 44 



Character of 

 bottom. 



gy-m. 



Abundance. 



VERNEUILINA AFFIXA Cushman. 



Plate 27, fig. 6. 



Verneuilina propinquxi H. B. Brady (part). Rep Voy. Challenger, Zoology, vol. 9, 

 1884, p. 387, pi. 47, figs. 13, 14 (not 8-12).— Goes (part), Bull. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool., vol. 29, 1896, p. 38. 



Verneuilina affixa Cushman, Bull. 71, U. S. Nat. Mus., pt. 2, 1911, p. 56, figs. 

 90, 91 (in text). 



The only specimens of this species which were noted in the ma- 

 terial examined were from D5650, GuK of Boni, 540 fathoms (988 

 meters), bottom temperature, 40.1° F. (3.5° C). They were of the 

 form with the pointed apex and broad base. 



Verneuilina affixa — Material examined. 



Genus VALVULINA d'Orbigny, 1826. 



VALVULINA CONICA Parker and Jones. 



Plate 27, fig. 7. 



Valvidina triangularis Parker and Jones, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 2, vol. 19, 

 1857, p. 295, pi. 11, figs. 15, 16 (not Valvulina triangularis d'Orbigny). 



Valvidina triangularis, var. conica Parker and Jones, Philos. Trans. Roy. Soc, 

 vol. 155. 1865, p. 406, pi. 15, fig. 27. 



