204 BULLETIN 100, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Nodosaria lepidula, var. hispidula — Material examined. 



NODOSARIA SUBSTRIATULA Cushman. 



Plate 30, figs. 8, 9; plate 52, figs. 7-9. 



Nodosaria subcanaliculata H. B. Brady, Rep. Voy. Challenger, Zoology, vol. 9, 



1884, p. 512, pi. 64, figs. 23, 24 (not Dentnlina suhcanalimlata Neugeboren). 

 Nodosaria substriatula Cushman, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 51, 1917, p. 655. 



Description. — Test usually consisting of four chambers, the pro- 

 loculum with a globular body, an apical spine, and with definite, 

 longitudinal costae; the second chamber much more elongate, flask- 

 shaped with a long neck; when partially covered by the third cham- 

 ber becoming subcylindrical, ornamented like the proloculum; third 

 chamber still more elongate, Avith a long neck, the surface ornamenta- 

 tion consisting of short, broken, longitudinal striae; the fourth 

 chamber similar but remote, a large part of the neck between the 

 two chambers visible; final chamber with the apertural neck long and 

 slender, smooth; the apertural end with four or more flange-like 

 costae extending up and beyond the aperture and incurving some- 

 what over the aperture. 



Length up to 2 mm. 



Distribution. — Type specimen (U.S.N.M. No. 9115) from Albatross 

 station D5123, in 283 fathoms (517 meters), east coast of Mindanao. 

 Specimens also were obtained in material from D5112, in 177 fathoms 

 (324 meters), China Sea, off southern Luzon, bottom temperature 

 52.4° F. (11.3° C); D5120, in 393 fathoms (719 meters), off Balayan 

 Bay, bottom temperature 43.7° F. (6.5° C); D5122, east coast of 

 Mindoro, 220 fathoms (404 meters), and D5123, same locality, 283 

 fathoms (517 meters); D5259, in 312 fathoms (571 meters), off 

 northwestern Panay, bottom temperature 49.3° F. (9.6° C); D5260, 

 off southeastern Mindoro, 234 fathoms (428 meters), bottom tempera- 

 ture 51.4° F. (10.7° C); D5284, in 422 fathoms (775 meters), China 

 Sea off southern Luzon, bottom temperature 42.3° F. (5.7° C.) ; D5300, 

 in 265 fathoms (485 meters), same region, and D5420, in 127 fathoms 

 (233 meters), between Cebu and Bohol, bottom temperature 59.0° F. 

 (15° C). 



Brady had this species, apparently a single specimen, from 420 

 fathoms (728 meters) off Tahiti. He referred it provisionally to a 



