26 BULLETIN 104, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Lagena hexagona — material examined. 



LAGENA HISPIDA Rcuss. 



Plate 4, figs. 7, 8. 



" Sphaerulae hispidae " Soldani, Testaceographia, vol. 2, 1798, p. 53, pi. 17, 



fl^is. V, X. 

 Lagena hispida Reuss, Zeitschr. deutsch. geol. Ges., vol. 10, 1858, p. 43 ; 

 Sltz. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 4G, pt. 1. 1862 (1863), p. 335, pi. 6, figs. 

 77-79. — Balkm^ill and Wright, Proc. Roy. Irish Acad., ser. 2, vol. 3, 

 1882, p. 548.— H. B. Brady, Rep. Voy. Challenger, Zoology, vol. 9, 1884, 

 p. 459, pi. 57, figs. 1-4 ; pi. 59, figs. 2, 5. — Balkwill and Wright, Trans. 

 Roy. Irish Acad., vol. 28, 1885, p. 337.— H. B. Brady, Journ. Roy. Micr. 

 Soc, 1887, p. 902.— Wright, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. 4, ser. 6, 1889, p. 

 448.— Pearcey, Trans. Glasgow Nat. Hist. Soc. vol. 2, 1890, p. 177.— 

 Wright, Proc. Roy. Irish Acad., ser. 3, vol. 1, 1891, p. 478. — Robertson, 

 Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasgow, pt. 3, 1892, p. 241. — Egger, Abh. kon. bay. 

 Akad. Wiss. Miinclien, CI. II, vol. 18, 1893, p. 324, pi. 10, fig. 26.— Goics, 

 Kongl. Svensk. Vet. Akad. Handl., vol. 25, No. 9, 1894, p. 74, pi. 13, figs. 

 723. — Chapman, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, pt. 1, 1895, p. 27.^ — Flint, Rep. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., 1897 (1899), p. 307, pi. 53, fig. 8.— Wright, Irish Nat., 

 vol. 9, No. 3, 1900, p. 53.— Millett, Journ. Roy. Micr. Soc, 1901, p. 6.— 

 Chapman, Trans. New Zealand Inst., vol. 38, 1905, p. 91. — Earland, 

 Journ. Quekett Micr. Club, ser. 2, vol. 9, No. 57, 1905, p. 211. — Chapman, 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool., vol. 30, 1910, p. 407. — Sidebottom, Journ. 

 Quekett Micr. Club, vol. 11, 1912, p. 385, pi. 14, fig. 31; pi. 15, figs. 

 1, 2.— Cushman, Bull. 71, U. S. Nat. Mus., pt. 3, 1913, p. 13, pi. 4, figs. 

 4, 5; pi. 5, fig. 1. — Heron-Ali.en and Earland, Proc Roy. Irish Acad., 

 vol. 31, pt. 64, 1913, p. 74. — Pearcey, Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinb., vol. 49, 

 1914, p. 1017.^ — Heron-Aixen and Earland, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 

 ser. 2. vol. 11. 1916 p 2-13. pi. 41, fig. 16.— Mest.\yer. Trans. New Zealand 

 Inst., vol. 48, 1916, p. 129. — Cushman, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 56, 

 1919, p. 608. 

 Description. — Test globular or pyriform, usually not compressed, 



neck elongate, thin, slender; wall thin, clothed with delicate spines 



uniformly distributed over the test. 

 Length 0.40-0.80 mm. 

 Distribution. — Spinose specimens of Lagena seem to be rare in the 



western Atlantic. I have had specimens from but two stations, 



