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Distribution. — Type specimen (U.S.N.M. No. 9125) from Albatross 

 station D5152, in 34 fathoms (62 meters), Sulu Archipelago, Tawi 

 Tawi group. Specimens were also obtained from Albatross station 

 D5259, in 312 fathoms (571 meters), off northwestern Panay, bot- 

 tom temperature 49.3° F. (9.6° C). 



This is a rather beautifully ornamented variety of this species 

 and does not seem to be at all common m the region. 



CRISTELLARIA VORTEX (Fichtel and Moll). 



'* Nautili globiUi" Soldani, Testaceographia, vol. 1, pt. 1, 1879, p. 66, pi. 59, 



fig. tt. 

 Nautilus vortex Fichtel and Moll, Test. Micr., 1803, p. 33, pi. 2, figs. d-i. 

 Polystomella vortex Blainville, Man. de Malac, 1825, p. 389. 

 Robidina vortex d'Orbigny, Ann. Sci. Nat., vol. 7., 1826, p. 288, No. 4. 

 Cristellaria vortex Parker, Jones, and H. B. Brady, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 



4, vol. 8, 1871, p. 240, pi. 10, fig. 82.— H. B. Brady, Rep. Voy. Challenger, 



Zoology, vol. 9, 1884, p. 548, pi. 69, figs. 14-16.— Cushman, Bull. 71, U. S. Nat. 



Mus., pt. 3, 1913, p. 68, pi. 32, fig. 3. 



Very fine specimens of this species have occurred in the Albatross 

 material of the following localities: Off Romblon; between Burias and 

 Luzon; Ragay Gulf and east coast of Luzon; between Samar and 

 Leyte; north of Tawi Tawi; Buton Strait; and Gulf of Boni. These 

 stations range in depth from 24 to 976 fathoms (44 to 1,785 meters) 

 with the average 308 fathoms (564 meters) ; the bottom temperatures 

 with an average of 57.8° F.(14.4° C). 



Brady's Oliallenger material with one exception was from the 

 Southern Pacific. The North Pacific material which I had, was 

 from the Hawaiian Islands and Guam, and apparently this species 

 is most at home in fairly warm waters of the Pacific. 



Cristellaria vortex — Material examined. 



