rORAMINIFEEA OF THE ATLANTIC OCEAN. 



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Description. — Test ovate, compressed, wall smooth, periphery 

 usually keeled, with several spines symmetrically arranged about the 

 border; aperture fissurine. 



Length about 0.50 mm. 



Distrihution. — There are very few Atlantic records for this species. 

 There is a single Challenger station from the middle Atlantic which 

 is south of the Equator, one Gazelle station recorded by Egger from 

 off West Africa, one Albatross station recorded by Flint in the Carib- 

 bean, off Panama, and Pearcey records it from the far South Atlantic 

 in deep water. I have a single specimen which can be referred to 

 this species from Albatross station D21T4, off the eastern coast of the 

 United States in deep water. The species was originally described 

 from the late Tertiary of Kar Nicobar. As the few records shov\', 

 it has been recorded from many widely separated regions. Except 

 for the records of Wright in deep water off the southwestern coast 

 of Ireland, there seem to be no records from the region of the British 

 Isles. 



Lagena staphyllearia — material examined. 



LAGENA STELLIGERA H. B. Brady. 



Plate 10, figs. 5, 6. 



Lagena steUigera H. B. Brady, Quart. Journ. Micr. Sci., vol. 21, 18S1, p. 60 ; 

 Rep. Voy. Challenger, Zoology, vol. 9, 18S4, p. 466, pi. 57, figs. 35, 36.— 

 Pearcey (?), Trans. Glasgow Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 2, 1890, p. 177.— 

 Earland, Journ. Quekett Micr. Club. ser. 2, vol. 9, No. 57, 1905, p. 

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

 SiDEBOTTOM, Joum. Quekett Micr. Club, vol. 11, 1912, p. 391, pi. 15, 

 figs. 28, 29; pi. 16, figs. 1-4.— Cushman, Bull. 71, U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 pt. 3, 1913, p. 26, pi. 12, fig. 3.— Pearcey, Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinb., vol. 

 49, 1914, p. 1018. 



Brady's Challenger stations included both the North and South 

 Atlantic, but mostly in deep water. Pearcey records this species 

 with a question from the Faroe Channel, and Earland a single speci- 

 men from shore-sand at Bognor, Sussex. I have failed to find any 

 material in the western Atlantic referable to this species. 



