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BULLETIN 100, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



NODOSARIA SOLUTA (Reuss). 



Plate 34, figs. 5, 6. 



Dentalina soluta Reuss, Zeitschr. deutsch. geol. Gee., vol. 3, 1851, p. €0, pi. 3, 

 figs. 4a, h. 



Nodosaria sohtta Bornemann, Zeitschr. deutsch. geol. Gcs., vol. 7, 1855, p. 

 322, pi. 12, fig. 12. ~H. B. Brady, Rep. Voy. Challenger, Zoology, vol. 9, 

 1884, p. 503, pi. 02, figs. 13-16; pi. 64, fig. 28.— Flint, Rep. U. S. Nat. Mua., 

 1897 (1899), p. 310, pi. 56, fig. 3.— Cushman, Bull. 71, U. S. Nat. Mus., pt. 3, 

 1913, p. 53, pi. 26, figs. 9-11. 



This species is one of the most common in the region, being found 

 in the Philippine Archipelago and to the southward as well, off 

 Borneo, in the Gulf of Boni, Flores Sea, Macassar Strait, etc. With 

 but one exception, that of 78 fathoms (143 meters), the range is 

 between 208 and 940 fathoms (381 and 1,719 meters) with the aver- 

 age 528 fathoms (966 meters). The bottom temperatures show a 

 wide range from 36.7° to 62.4° F. (2.6° to 16.8° C), the average 

 being 47.3° F. (8.4° C). 



Nearly all the specimens show rather tumid, close-set chambers, 

 the proximal half of each being much roughened, as shown in one of 

 the figures of the Challenger Report. 



Nodosaria soluta — Material examined. 



NODOSARIA COMMUNIS d'Orbigny. 



Plate 34, fig. 7. 



Nodosaria (Dentalina) communis d'Orbigny, Ann. Sci. Nat., vol. 7, 1826, p. 254, 



No. 35. 

 Dentalina cormnums d'Orbigny, Mem. Soc. Geol. France, vol. 4, 1840, p. 13, pi. 1, 



fig. 4. 



