FORAMINIFERA OF THE PHILIPPINE AND ADJACENT SEAS. 391 



in 340 fathoms (622 juotors), bottom temperature 52.3° F. (11.2'* 

 C), both north of Tawi Tawi. 



Comtispira invohens, var. substriatula — Material examined. 



CORNUSPIRA LACUNOSA H. B. Brady. 



Plate 78, fig. 1. 



Corniispira lacunosa H. B. Brady, Rep. Voy. Challenger, Zoolog>', vol. 9, 1884, 

 p. 202, pi. 113, fig. 21.— CusHMAN, Bull. 71, U. S. Nat. Mus., pt. 6, 1917, p. 

 26. pi. 2, fig. 3. 



Specimens of this rare species seem to confirm what was noted 

 in the North Pacific material that the type figured by Brady was an 

 immature specimen. In the adults the latter portion becomes nearly 

 smooth and the last-formed coil wider. The size of the Philippine 

 specimens also is nearer that of the Japanese material of this species. 



Single specimens were obtained from the followmg stations: D5178 

 in 78 fathoms (143 meters), off Romblon; D5259, in 312 fathoms 

 (571 meters), off northwestern Panay, bottom temperature 49.3° F. 

 (9.6° C); and D5281 in 201 fathoms (368 meters), China Sea, off 

 southern Luzon, bottom temperature 50.4° F. (10.2° C). 



These few specimens confirm what I have already noted at some 

 length in regard to the adult form of this species and its relation to 

 what was evidently the young described by Brady from off Eaine 

 Island, Torres Strait, 155 fathoms (283 meters). The other material 

 is that which I had from southern Japan. This species, while evi- 

 dently of widespread distribution in the Indo-Pacific area, can not 

 be very common, from the scattered records and few specimens at 

 each station. The Philippine specimens are all microspheric. 



Comuspira lacunosa — Material examined. 



