RECENT FORAMINIFERA FROM OFF NEW ZEALAND. 



By Joseph A. Cushman. 



Of the Boston Society of Natural History. 



The material sent me for study by the United States National 

 Museum consisted of four sUdes with over 1,200 specimens, repre- 

 senting nearly 200 species. The material was sent to the National 

 Museum by Miss Marjorie and Mr. R. L. Mestayer, of Wellington, 

 New Zealand. The locaUty for the material is off the "Poor Knights" 

 Islands, east coast of New Zealand, latitude 35° 30' S.; longitude 174° 

 43' E., dredged by H. M. S. Hinemoa. 



This material contains a few specimens which belong evidently to 

 new species and varieties, and others which are especially interesting 

 as representing rare species previously dredged in this region by the 

 Challenger, and described by Brady, such as Technitella raphanus and 

 Frondicularia comjHa. This material has been compared with that 

 dredged by the Clmllenger at station 169 at a depth of 700 fathoms, 

 also off New Zealand. It may be compared with Chapman's mate- 

 rial from off Great Barrier Island, New Zealand, at a depth of 100 

 fathoms, and Sidebottom's material, dredged by the Dart, from off 

 Australia, at 465 fathoms. 



References are given in the synonymy to both Chapman's and 

 Sidebottom's papers, as weU as to other records for the region. 



A study of this material shows that the general distribution is 

 that of the Indo-Pacific region. Some specimens recorded by Heron- 

 Allen and Earland from the Kerimba Archipelago are found as far 

 to the south and east as this region. Others are the same as those 

 already recorded from southern Japan, the Hawaiian Islands, the 

 Philippines, the Malay Archipelago, etc. 



In general this seems to be a very well defined faunal area and it 

 is probable that many of the species found here are limited to this 

 general region. 



This New Zealand material contains a great number of Lagenidae 

 which is similar to that of Chapman's and Sidebottom's material, as 

 well as that which I have had from the Philippines in comparatively 

 deep water. Heron-Allen and Earland, in their Kerimba material 



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