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 Vaginulina legumen, var. elegans — Material examined. 



VAGINULINA SPINIGERA H, B, Brady. 



Plate 42, fig. 1, 



Marginulina species, Whiteaves, Rep. British Association, Brighton Meeting, 



Trans., 1872, p. 144. 

 Vaginulina spinigera H. B. Brady, Quart. Journ. Micr. Sci., vol. 21, 1881, p. 63; 



Rep. Voy, Challenger, Zoology, vol. 9, 1884, p. 531, pi. 67, figs. 13, 14,— Flint, 



Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1897 (1899), p. 314, pi. 60, fig. 3. 



Description. — Test compressed, tapering to the basal end which has 

 two or more very long stout spines, chambers broad and short, early 

 ones coiled, later becoming miiserial, but with the sutures angled; 

 sutures distinct, limbate; aperture radiate. 



Length without spines, up to 4 mm. 



Distribution. — ^This species was obtained but once. Albatross sta- 

 tion D5637, in 700 fathoms (1.280 meters), off Bouro Island. It has 

 not been obtained from the North Pacific, Brady in his description 

 gives it from the Ki Islands, among other localities. It was not found 

 in the Philippine Archipelago. 



Vaginulina spinigera — Material examined. 



VAGINULINA MARGARITIFERA (Batsch). 



Plate 42, fig. 2. 



NautiliLS (Orthoceras) margaritijerus Batsch, Conch, des Seesandes, 1791, p. 3, 



pi. 4, figs. 12a-c. 

 Vaginulina mxirgaritifera H. B. Brady, Rep. Voy. Challenger, Zoology, vol. 9, 



1884, p. 532, pi, 66, fig. 16. 



Description. — Test elongate, hardly tapering, initial end with a long 

 slender spine, chambers numerous, limbate, sutures oblique, later 



