[SCIENTIFIC RESULTS OF THE PHILIPPINE CRUISE OF THE FISHERIES STEAMER 

 "ALBATROSS," 1907-1910.— No. 35.] 



NEW SPECIES AND VARIETIES OF FORAMINIFERA FROM 

 THE PHILIPPINES AND ADJACENT WATERS. 



By Joseph A. Cushman, 



Of the Boston Society of Natural History. 



The species and varieties of foraminifera described briefly here are 

 beUeved to be new and are from the rich material dredged by the fish- 

 eries steamer Albatross in the Phihppine cruise. Figures and fuUer 

 notes will be pubUshed later in the finished work on this collection. 



BATHYSIPHON RUFESCENS, new species. 



Test elongate, very slightly if at all curved, very slightly tapering, 

 slender, wall marked by annular rings, surface rough, very light yel- 

 lowish or reddish brown, dull. 



Diameter up to 0.5 mm.; length up to 15 mm. 



Type-specimen. — (Cat. No. 9098, U.S.N.M.) from Albatross station 

 D 5236, in 494 fathoms. Pacific Ocean, oft' eastern coast of Mindanao. 



BATHYSIPHON FLAVIDUS dePolin. var. GIGANTEUS, new variety. 



Variety differing from the typical mainly in size, the test being much 

 larger, up to nearly 3 mm. in diameter and 40-50 mm. in length, the 

 wall smooth and polished instead of duU as in the smaller, typical 

 form. 



Type-specimen. — Cat. No. 9099, U.S.N.M. from Albatross station D 

 5609, in 1,092 fathoms. Gulf of Tomini, Celebes. 



BATHYSIPHON PAPYRACEUS, new species. 



Test much elongate, irregularly curved, cylindrical, of even diam- 

 eter; wall thin, friable, of sponge-spicules with a small amount of 

 cement, white in color with the surface of light grayish-green in irregu- 

 lar bands; fines of growth very prominent. 



Diameter up to 3 mm. ; length up to 50 mm. 



Type-specimen. — (Cat. No. 9100, U.S.N.M.) from Albatross station 

 D 5247, in 135 fathoms, Gulf of Davao. 



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