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NODOSAKIA INSOLITA Schwagcr. 



Nodosaria insolita Schwager, iVorara-Exped., Geol. Theil., pt. 2, 1866, p. 230, 

 pi. 6, fig. 63. 



Description. — Test elongate, tapering, slightly arcuate, composed 

 of numerous inflated chambers, each much broader than long, sutures 

 deeply constricted, wall smooth, apertural end with a slight neck. 



Length up to 8 mm. 



Distribution— Typical specimens were obtained from Albatross 

 stations D5176, in 260 fathoms (476 meters), Verde Island Passage, 

 and an abundance of large specimens from D5236, in 494 fathoms (903 

 meters), east coast of Mindanao, bottom temperature 41.2° F. 

 (5.1° C). Schwager 's specimens were from the fossil beds of Kar 

 Nicobar. 



The aperture shown in Schwager 's figure seems as though the speci- 

 men must have been broken. Our specimens agree very closely in 

 all other characters. 



Nodosaria insolita — Material examined. 



NODOSARIA INFLEXA Reuss. 



Nodosaria inflexa Reuss, Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 25, 1866, p. 131, 

 pi. 2, fig. 1; Sitz. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 62, 1870, p. 472, No. 16.— Von Schlicht, 

 Foram. Septarienthones von Pietzpuhl, 1870, pi. 38, fig. 3. — H. B. Brady, 

 Rep. Voy. Challenger, Zoology, vol. 9, 1884, p. 498, pi. 62, fig. 9. — Cushman, 

 Bull. 71, U. S. Nat. Mua., pt.3, 1913, p. 52, pi. 25, fig. 1. 



Brady recorded this species in the Challenger Report from off the 

 Philippines in 95 fathoms (174 meters). I have found material at 

 four stations as follows: D5201, Sogod Bay, southern Leyte Island, 

 554 fathoms (1,012 meters), bottom temperature, 52.8° F. (11.5° C); 

 D5236, Pacific Ocean, east coast of Mindanao, 494 fathoms (903 

 meters), bottom temperature, 41.2° F. (5.1° C); D5259, off north- 

 western Panay, 312 fathoms (571 meters), bottom temperature, 49.3° 

 F. (9.6° C.) ; D5487, between Leyte and Mindanao, 732 fathoms (1,339 

 meters), bottom temperature, 52.3° F. (11.2° C). 



Nodosaria inflexa — Material examined. 



