74 BULLETIN 104, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Distribution. — Specimens of this species were recorded from nu- 

 merous stations off the British Isles. Goes recorded it from the 

 Caribbean, but, so far as I have seen, specimens from the western 

 Atlantic should be referred elsewhere. 



NODOSARIA SUBSOLUTA, new species. 



Plate 13, fig. 1. 



Nodosaria soluia H. B. Brady (not Dentalina soluta Reuss), Rep. Voy. 

 Challenger, Zoology, vol. 9, 1884, p. 503, pi. 62, figs. 1.3-16; pi. 64, 

 fig. 28.— Goes, Kongl. Svensk. Vet. Akad. Handl., vol. 2.5. No. 9, 1894. 

 p. 70, pi. 12, fig. 690; Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 29, 1896, p. 62.— 

 Flint, Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1897 (1899), p. 310, pi. 56, fig. 3.— 

 CusHMAN, Bull. 71, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1913, p. 53, pi. 26, figs. 9-11; 

 Bull. 100, U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 4. 1921, p. 192, pi. 34, figs. 5, 6. 



Description. — Test elongate, tapering, somewhat arcuate, rather 

 stout, initial chamber usually large with a single short basal spine; 

 chambers few, subglobular or slightly pyriform; sutures distinct; 

 wall smooth except for the basal third of each chamber, which is 

 typically very finely costate with numerous very fine, often inter- 

 rupted costae, which in some specimens are almost spines; apertural 

 end slightly produced, aperture radiate. 



Length up to 7 mm. 



Distrihutio7i. — Tj-pe-specimen (U.S.N.M. Cat. No, 17772) from 

 Albatross station D2751, in 687 fathoms (1,255 meters), off the coast 

 of Brazil. It has also occurred at numerous stations in the Albatross 

 collections from about 40° X. latitude off the northeastern coast of 

 the United States southward into the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean 

 and off the coast of Brazil. This is the same range as found by 

 Flint. Brady records it as " not uncommon in the North Atlantic, at 

 depths ranging from 300 to 900 fathoms (549 to 1,646 meters), and 

 has been found as low as 1,360 fathoms (2,487 meters)." He records 

 it from the South Atlantic from 350 to 675 fathoms (640 to 1,234 

 meters). He also records it from the South Pacific. I have had 

 the same species from the Philippine region in comparatively deep 

 water. 



Nodosaria soluta is recorded by Wright ^^ from 1,000 fathoms (1,829 

 meters), and off the southwest coast of Ireland in 750 fathoms (1,370 

 meters). 2^ Pearcey^° records it as common in the wann area of the 

 Faroe Channel. Earland records it as very rare off Bognor.^^ 

 Heron- Allen and Earland ^^ figure a minute specimen from the Clare 

 Island region, but it, as they note, is not at all the typical form of 

 the species (pi. 13, fig. 2). 



^Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. 4, ser. 6, 1889, p. 449. 

 2» Proc. Rqy. Irish Acad., ser. 3, vol. 1, 1891, p. 48.3. 

 so Trans. Glasgow Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 2, 1890, p. 178. 

 «i Journ. Quekett. Micr. Club, ser. 2, vol. 9, no. 57, 1905, p. 215. 

 " Proc. Roy. Irish Acad., vol. 31, pt. 64, 1913, p. 92, pi. 8, fig. 2. 



