80 BULLETIN 104, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Nodosaria advena — material examined. 



NODOSARIA MUCRONATA (Neugeboren), 



Plate 12, figs. 5-7 ; pi. 13, figs. 7-9.' 



" Orthoceras intortum " Soldani, Testaceographia, vol. 1, pt. 2, 1791, p. 98, 



pi. 105, fig. V. 

 Nodosaria (Dentalina) obliqua D'Orbigny (not Linnaeus), Ann. Sci. Nat., 



vol. 7, 1826, p. 254, No. 36 ; Mod&les, No. 5. 

 Dentalina mucronata Neugeboben, Denkschr, Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 12, 



1856, p. 83, pi. 3, figs. 8-11. 

 Nodosaria mucronata Reuss, Sitz. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 62, 1870, p. 475, 



No. 30.— H. B. Brady, Rep. Voy. Challenger, Zoology, vol. 9, 1884. p. 



506, pi. 62, figs. 27-31.— H. B. Bkady, Parker, and Jones, Trans. Zool. 



Soc. London, vol. 12, 1888, p. 223, pi. 44, fig. 10.— Wright, Proc. Roy. 



Irish Acad., ser. 3, vol. 1, 1891, p. 483. — Egger, Abh. kon. bay. Akad. Wiss. 



Miinchen, CI. II, vol. 18, 1893, p. 342.— Flint, Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



1897 (1899), p. 311, pi. 57, fig. 2.— Cushman, Bull. 71, U. S. Nat. Mus., 



pt. 3, 1913, p. 56, pi. 24, fig. 3 ; pi. 25, fig. 2 ; pi. 27, figs. 5-7 ; pi. 35, 



fig. 6. — Heron-Allen and Earland, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, ser. 2, 



vol. 11, 1916, p. 257 [?]. 



Description. — Test elongate, tapering from the acute initial end to 

 the broadest portion, that of the last-formed chamber, initial end 

 often with a short spine ; chambers comparatively few, not inflated ; 

 sutures distinct, oblique but not depressed; wall smooth; aperture 

 radiate, eccentric. 



Length up to 5 mm. 



Distribution. — Specimens referred to this species occurred from 

 the coast of Carolina northward to the Grand Banks and a single 

 station above 50° N. latitude. There is a single station in the Carib- 

 bean. Flint records it from one station in the Gulf of Mexico. 

 Brady's Atlantic records include one off New York and another 

 oflp Bermuda. Parker, -Tones, and H. B. Brady record it from the 



