NO. 2172. NEW FORAMINIFEBA FROM PHILIPPINES— V V HUMAN. 661 



Diameter up to 3 mm. 



Type-specimen.— {Cat. No. 9139, U.S.N.M.), from Albatross D5272, 

 in 118 fathoms, China Sea off southern Luzon. 



CRISTELLARIA HELICINOroES, new species. 



Test unequally biconvex, especially in the later chambers; earlier 

 chambers close coiled, biconvex, numerous; later chambers becoming 

 developed more strongly on one side of the axis of growth and ex- 

 tending farther toward the umbilicus, giving the test a one-sided 

 appearance, aperture in the last formed chamber with a tubular 

 neck; wall smooth and unornamented 



Diameter, up to 2.5 mm. 



Type-specimen.— (Cat. No. 9140, U.S.N.M.) from Albatross D5301, 

 in 208 fathoms, China Sea, vicinity of Hongkong. 



CRISTELLARIA ITALICA Defrance, var. ACUTO-CARINATA. new variety. 



Test similar to typical C. italica in its general characters, but the 

 angles greatly extended in thin carinse from apex to aperture, the 

 lines of growth being apparent even in the carinse. 



Length, 3 mm. 



Type-specimen.— (Ca.t. No. 9141 U.S.N.M.) horn Albatross 1)5523, 

 off Mindanao. 



VAGINULINA BRADYI. new species. 



Vaginulina brukenthali H. B. Brady, Rep. Voy. Challenger, Zoology, vol. 

 9, 1884, p. 532, pi. 66, figs. 18, 19 (not V. brukenthali Neugeboren). 



Test elongate, tapering toward the basal end, which is armed with 

 one or more short spines, somewhat compressed; chambers numerous, 

 distinct, early ones coiled, later ones in a linear series, but with the 

 sutures oblique throughout; limbate in the central portion, not keeled, 

 in transverse view, ovate; aperture at the dorsal side of the chamber, 

 radiate. 



Length, up to 4 mm. 



Type-specimen.— {C&.i. No. 9142, U.S.N.M.) from Albatross D5580, 

 in 162 fathoms, Darvel Bay, Borneo. 



VAGINULINA ACICULA, new species. 



Test elongate, slender, tapering from a pouit at the initial end to 

 the largest chamber at the apertural end, initial end with one or 

 more short spines, chambers very numerous, rather indistinct in the 

 early portion with oblique sutures, later becoming transverse and 

 slightly depressed, waU smooth and polished; aperture radiate, 

 tenninal. 



Length, up to 5 mm. 



Type-specimen.— (Cat. No. 9143, U.S.N.M.) from Albatross D5613, 

 in 752 fathoms; Gulf of Tomini, Celebes. 



