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1907, p. 129.— GoDDARD, Rec. Austr. Mus., vol. 6, 1907, p. 308.— Baxk- 

 wiLL and MiLLETT, Rec. Foram. Galway, 1908, p. 6.— Sidebottom, Mem. 

 Proc. Manchester Lit. Philos. Soc, vol. 54, No. 16, 1910, p. 20, pi. 2, 

 figs. 19-21.— CusHMAN, Bull. 71, U. S. Nat. Mus., pt. 3, 1913, p. 58, pi. 

 24, fig. 7. — Heron-Allen and Earland, Proc. Roy. Irish Acad., vol. 31, 

 pt. G4, 1913, p. 93; Trans. Linn. Soc. London, ser. 2, vol. 11, 1916, p. 

 257; Journ. Roy. Micr. Soc, 1916, p. 47.— Sidebottom, Journ. Roy. 

 Micr. Soc, 1918, p. 134.— Cushman, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 56, 1919, 

 p. 613 ; Bull. 100, U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 4, 1921, p. 199, pi. 35, fig. 6. 

 Nodosaria longicauda D'Obbigny, Ann. Sci. Nat., vol. 7, 1826, p. 254, No. 28. 

 Description. — Test composed of fe.Av nearly spherical chambers, 

 rapidly increasing in size as added, apical end often with a spine, 

 surface ornamented with numerous longitudinal raised costae ; aper- 

 ture at the end of a fairly long neck ornamented with transverse 

 ring-like costae. 

 Length 1.50-3 mm. 



Distribution. — From the synonymy this species is very widely 

 distributed. However, a study of the figures referred to this species 

 will show that they are evidently not all one species. In the western 

 Atlantic I have not seen specimens of the typical form such as are 

 figured by Brady. He, however, records it from a Challenger 

 station off Bermuda, and several off the Canaries. Egger records it 

 from the western coast of Africa and there are numerous records 

 for the species from the coast of Europe, especially about the British 

 Isles. Specimens comparable to this figured by Brady do not occur 

 in the Albatross material. 



NODOSARIA SCALARIS (Batsch). var, SEPARANS H. B. Brady. 



Nodosaria scalaris (Batsch), var. sepnrans H. B. Brady, Rep. Voy. Chal- 

 lenger, Zoology, vol. 9, 1884, p. 511, pi. 64, figs. 16-19.— Pearcey, Trans. 

 Glasgow Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 2, 1890, p. 178. — Wright, Proc. Roy. Irish 

 Acad., ser. 3, vol. 1, 1891, p. 484. — Chapman, Proc. Zool. Soc London, 

 pt. 1, 1895, p. 32 ; The Foraminifera, 1902, p. 402.— Dakin, Rep. Ceylon 

 Pearl Oyster Fish., vol, 5, 1906, p. 235. — Chapman, Journ. Quekett 

 Micr. Club, ser. 2, vol. 10, 1907, p. 129.— Pearcey, Trans. Roy. Soc. 

 Edinb., vol. 49, 1914, p. 1021. — Chapman, Biol. Res. Endeavour, vol. 

 3, pt. 1, 1915, p. 23. — Heron-Atxen and Earland, Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 London, ser. 2, vol. 11, 1916, p. 258. 



According to Brady, this variety differs from the typical in having 

 the last-formed chamber somewhat remote from the preceding ones. 

 Such a character occurs in numerous other species, such as NodosaHa 

 intercellularis, N. sublineata, etc. His type specimens were from 

 the Indo-Pacific, but there are numerous records for it especially off 

 the coast of the British Isles. The figures given by Millett and 

 referred to this species *^ are not the same as Brady's, but have been 

 made a new species.** 



<3 Journ. Roy. Micr. Soc, 1902, p. 520, pi. 11, figs. 11, 12. 



" Nodosaria millettU Cushman, Proc. U. S. Nat Mus., vol. 51, 1917, p. 654 ; Bull. 100. 

 U. S. Nat Mus., vol. 4, 1921, p. 202, pi. 36, fig. 5. 



