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shape with long tapering necks; surface smooth, chambers varying 

 little in size; proloculum extended backward in a long-drawn-out 

 point. 



Length up to 8 mm. 



Distribution. — There are numerous records for this species in the 

 Atlantic. Those from the tropical western Atlantic are very close 

 to the form found in the Philippine region, which has a large 

 elongate, tapering proloculum. The right-hand specimen in Flint's 

 figure shows this very well. The species is either a very widely dis- 

 tributed one or else has more than one form. In the Albatross col- 

 lection specimens have occurred off the coast of Georgia, in the Gulf 

 of Mexico, and in the Caribbean. Flint's specimens were from the 

 northern part of the Gulf of Mexico. Goes also had it from several 

 of the stations from which I have had it. One of the Challenger 

 stations off the West Indies is given by Brady for this species as 

 well as one off the Canary Islands. There are numerous reports of 

 it's occurrence off the coast of the British Isles. 



NODOSARIA PYRULA D'Orbigmy. var. SEMIRUGOSA D'Orbigny. 



Plate 16, fig. 5. 



Nodosaria semirugosa D'Oubigny, Foram. Foss. Vienne, 1846, p. 34, pi. 1, 



figs. 20-23.— MiLLETT, Journ. Roy. Micr. Soc, 1902, p. 515, pi. 11, 



fig. 5.— CusHMAN, Bull. 71, U. S. Nat. Mus., pt. 3, 1913, p. 50, pi. 26, 



figs. 4-8. 

 Nodosaria No. 35, Von Schlicht, Foram. Septarienthones von Pietzpuhl, 



1870, p. 24, pi. 7, fig. 20. 

 Nodosaria stipitata Reuss, var. costulata Reuss, Sitz. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 



vol. 62, Abth. 1, 1870, p. 471. 

 Nodosaria costulata H. B. Beady, Rep. Voy. Challenger, Zoology, vol. 9, 



1884, p. 515, pi. 63, figs. 23-27.— Flint, Rep. U, S. Nat. Mus., 1897 



(1899), p. 312, pi. 58, fig. 1. 

 Nodosaria pyrula D'Orbigny, var. semirugosa Cushman, Bull. 100, U. S. 



Nat. Mus., vol. 4, 1921, p. 187, pi. 33, figs. 6, 7. 



Description. — Variety differing from the typical in having the 

 basal portion of each chamber with several costae and alternating 

 depressions, the upper end smooth. 



