64 BULLETIN 104, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Distribution. — Such specimens are common in most of the oceans 

 and may represent more than one species. It is recorded at numer- 

 ous stations off the British Isles, and specimens referred to this 

 species occur in the Caribbean. 



NODOSARIA (GLANDULINA) LAEVIGATA D'Orbigny. 



There are numerous records for this species from about the British 

 Isles, but specimens are not figured. The specimens I have seen from 

 European waters are more nearly like our variety occidentalis than 

 like the typical form of d'Orbigny. 



Some of the records are as follows: Shetland (Waller, Brady); 

 Cumbrae (Robertson) ; southwest of Ireland (Wright) (Brady) ; ^^ 

 rare. Island of Skye (Robertson) ; ^^ w^arm area, Faroe Channel 

 (Pearcey) ; ^^ off the southwest of Ireland (Wright) ; ^^ very rare, 

 Bognor, Sussex (Earland) ; -*' "very rare, but excellent and typical, 

 west of Scotland" (Heron- Allen and Earland ).^^ 



NODOSARIA (GLANDULINA) LAEVIGATA D'Orbigny, var. OCCIDENTALIS, new variety. 



Plate 12, fig. 8. 



Nodosaria (Olandulina) laevigata Parker and Jones, Philos. Trans,, vol. 

 155, 1865, p. 340, pi. 13, fig. 1. 



Description. — Variety differing from the typical in the shape of 

 the test, this variety being more elongate, the chambers higher, sides 

 at the base usually convex instead of concave or straight, sutures 

 farther apart. • 



Distribution. — Type-specimen (U.S.N.M. Cat. No. 17811) from 

 Albatross station D2003, in 641 fathoms (1,172 meters), off the north- 

 eastern coast of the United States. Specimens are fairly numerous 

 at moderate depths from the latitude of Georges Bank southward to 

 the general region of Cape Hatteras with a single station off Cuba. 



This differs markedly from the following variety, more so than a 

 verbal description can easily show. 



There is a considerable difference in the microspheric and megalo- 

 spheric forms, the latter having a much broader, rounded base with a 

 short spine, the former much more pointed and the spine more de- 

 veloped. 



Parker and Jones figure this variety in the reference given above, 

 and note that it differs from the typical form of d'Orbigny. Their 



»" Journ. Roy. Micr. Soc, 1887,, p. 907. 



"Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasgow, pt. 3, 1880 (1892), p. 241. 



"Trans. Glasgow Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 2, 1890, p. 177. 



'»Proc. Roy. Irish Acad., ser. 3, vol. 1, 1891, p. 482. 



"".Tourn. Quekett Micr. Club, ser. 2, vol. 9, no. 57. 1905, p. 214. 



« Trans. Linn. Soc. London,, ser. 2, vol. 11, 1916, p. 255. 



