No. 2302. FORAMINIFEBA FROM NEW ZEALAND— CUSHMAN. 595 



of fragments of sponge spicules cemented in such a way that the free 

 ends extend toward the small end of the test. The aperture is con- 

 tracted and ends of the spicules brought in apparently to form a 

 protection for the animal. The interior is rather smoothly finished 

 and there seems to be no lining membrane. All the records for this 

 species are in the South Pacific region. Brady's original specimens 

 were from a Challenger station off Kandavu, Fiji Islands, in 210 

 fathoms. Chapman's specimens come from latitude 42° 17' S. ; longi- 

 tude 148° 51' E., in 1,122 fathoms, east of Tasmania. Pearcey 

 records two or three specimens in the Scotia material from station 

 420, latitude 69° 33' S.; longitude 15° 19' W., in 2,620 fathoms. 

 This material is therefore from the shallowest station yet recorded, 



TECHNITELLA MESTAYERI, new species. 



Plate 74, fig. 4. 



Description.— Test elongate, slightly tapering, cylindrical, arcuate; 

 wall composed of fine acicular sponge spicules, with a very little 

 grayish cement; initial end broadly rounded; apertural end trun- 

 cate with a slight lip; color grayish yellow; surface fairly smooth. 

 Length, 3 mm. 



Two specimens in this material are peculiar in their very small 

 size, form, and general character of the test. They evidently repre- 

 sent a new species of this genus in the region. It is somewhat allied to 

 T. legwmen Norman, but is much longer, more nearly cylindrical than 

 that species and the wall is differently built. 



Type.— Cs^t. No. 14740, U.S.N.M. 



Genus THOLOSINA Rhiimbler, 1895. 



THOLOSINA VESICULARIS (H. B. Brady). 



Placopsilina vesicularis H. B. Brady, Quart. Journ. Micr. Sci., vol. 19, 1879, p. 

 51, pi. 5, fig. 2; Rep. Voy. Challenger, Zoology, vol. 9, 1884, p. 316, pi. 35, 

 figs. 18, 19. 

 ' Tholosina vesicularis Rhumbler, Arch. Prot., vol. 3, 1903, p. 227, tig. 53 (in text). — 

 CusHMAN, Bull. 104, U. S. Nat. Mus., pt. 1, 1918, p. 65. 



There are three specimens which are here referred to this species, 

 all attached to shell fragments. The wall is composed of broken 

 sponge spicules and clear quartz fragments, some of them of fairly 

 large size. Mixed with these are very fine sand grains and grayish 

 cement. The periphery is even and extends out into straight cylin- 

 drical tubular extensions. There is no sign of branching of these in 

 any of the specimens, and as a rule they stand out clear from the sub- 

 stratum and are not attached, except at their base. They correspond 

 very closely in general appearance with the specimens figured by 

 Brady (OJiallenger, pi. 35, fig. 19.) 



