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NODOSARIA SUBPOLYGONA, new species. 



Test elongate, only very slightly tapering except in the micro- 

 spheric form, polygonal in end view, chambers numerous, not at all 

 inflated, sides parallel or nearly so, sutures very sUghtly, if at all de- 

 pressed, apertural end with a short stout neck, aperture large, circu- 

 lar; surface ornamented by six raised ridges givuig a hexagonal 

 appearance in end view. 



Length up to 5 mm. 



T7/pe-specimens.— {Cat. No. 9110, U.S.N.M.) from Albatross D5318 

 in 340 fathoms, China Sea, vicinity of Formosa. 



NODOSARIA SUBSCALARIS, new 



Test elongate, composed of few chambers, mucronate at the 

 apical end, earlier chambers close set, the later ones often somewhat 

 separated, inflated, sutures depressed, surface ornamented with 

 numerous (up to 40) longitudinal costae, apertural end with a thick, 

 tapering neck with 9 or 10 prominent, plat«-hke costae extending 

 from the upper end ol the ornamentation of the body of the chamber 

 to the apertural end of the neck; aperture small, rounded. 



Length up to 5 mm. 



Ty'pe-S'pedmens.—{Qsi,i. No. 9111, U.S.N.M.) from Albatross D5178 

 in 78 fathoms, vicinity of Romblon, Philippines. 



NODOSARIA SUBSCALARIS, new species, var. PAUCICOSTATA, new variety. 



Variety differmg from the typical in the lesser number of costae 

 (12-25) and in the apertural characters which in the variety consist 

 of a stout, nearly cylindrical neck, with about 15 costae which are 

 continuations of the costae of the body portion. 



Type-specimens.— (Cat. No. 9112, U.S.N.M.) from ^Z6aiross D5152, 

 in 34 fathoms, Tawi Tawi Group, Sulu Archipelago. 



NODOSARU MILLETTD, new species. 



Nodosaria scalaris, var. separans Millett, Journ. Roy. Micr. Soc, 1902, p. 520, 

 pi. 11, figs. 11, 12 (not var. separans H. B. Brady). 



Test elongate, nodose, consistmg of a few chambers, the early ones 

 close set, the later ones remote, chambers pyriform or elongate, elhp- 

 tical in side view, very finely costate, the basal portion sometimes 

 shghtly hispid, apertural necks very long and slender, aperture with 

 a phialine Up. 



Length, up to 3 mm. 



Type-specimen.— (Cat. No. 9113, U.S.N.M.) from Albatross D5281, 

 in 201 fathoms, China Sea, off Southern Luzon. 



NODOSARIA LEPIDULA Schwager, Tar. HISPIDULA, new variety. 



Test differing from the typical in its larger size, and the ornamen- 

 tation, which in the variety consists of a series of interrupted fine 



