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Description. — Test elongate, fusiform, the sides very different from 

 one another, one side flattened, the other deeply concave; chambers 

 with definite sutures which are flush with the surface: wall thin and 

 smooth; peripheral face somewhat concave, peripheral margin some- 

 what carinate, apertural enjl subacute; aperture elliptical, com- 

 pressed. 



Length from 0.5 to 0.75 mm. 



The distribution of this species includes two areas so far as is 

 known — the Mediterranean, represented by the types which Terquem 

 described, from the Pliocene of the Isle of Rhodes, and the recent 

 specimens from the Gulf of Marseilles (Schlumberger) and the Bay 

 of Palermo, Sicily (Sidebottom); the other the Pacific region. Here 

 Howchin and Chapman have found the species in the Tertiary of 

 Australia, and I have it in the recent material from the Philippines 

 and from off New Zealand. 



The Philippine specimens are from four Albatross stations off 

 northern Cebu, 32 fathoms (59 meters); off southeastern Mindoro, 

 145 fathoms (265 meters); and China Sea, off Formosa, 148 and 340 

 fathoms (271 and 622 meters). The most typical specimens are 

 those off New Zealand. 



Spiroloculina affixa — Material examined. 



SPIROLOCULINA ARENARIA H. B. Brady. 



Plate 81, figs. 3a, h. 



Spiroloculina arenaria H. B. Brady, Rep. Voy. Challenger, Zoology, vol. 9, 1884, 

 p. 153, pi. 8, fig. 12. — Egger, Abh. kon. Bay. Akad. Wiss. Miinchen, CI. 

 II, vol. 18, 1893, p. 226, pi. 1, fig. 29.— D akin, Ceylon Pearl-Oyster Fisheries, 

 Suppl. Rept., pt. 5, 1906.— CusHMAN, Bull. 71, U. S. Nat. Mus., pt. 6, 1917, 

 p. 36. 



One of Brady's Challenger stations for this species was in the 

 Philippines in 95 fathoms (174 meters). The others are off Kandavu, 

 Fiji Islands, 210 fathoms (384 meters), andoff Raine Island, Torres 

 Strait, 155 fathoms (283 meters). Dakin records it off Ceylon. 

 Egger's records are off Mauritius and off western Australia. 



In the Philippines species have occurred at five stations ranging 

 in depth from 80 to 2'|^ fathoms (146 to 454 meters), bottom tem- 



