FOEAMINIFERA OF THE ATLANTIC OCEAN. 85 



Under this name Goes figures a very large form from the Carib- 

 bean. His specimens measure from 17-22 mm, in length. The early 

 portion of the test is longitudinally costate, the later portion smooth, 

 the sutures broad and limbate. These occurred at a depth of 300 

 fathoms (549 meters), but I have failed to find similar material from 

 the Caribbean, 



NODOSARIA FLINTII, new species, 



Plate 14, fig. 1. 



Nodosaria obliqua H. B. Brady (part) (not Linnaeus), Rep, Voy. Chal- 

 lenger, Zoology, vol, 9, 18S4, p. 513, pi, 64, figs. 20-22.— Goes (part), 

 Kongl, Svensk, Vet, Akad. Handl., vol. 25, No. 9, 1S94, p. 70, pi. 12, 

 figs. 691, 692.— Flint, Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1897 (1899), p. 311, pi. 

 57, fig. 4.— CusHMAN, Bull. 71, U. S. Nat. Mus., pt.. 3, 1913, p. 59, 

 pi. 25, fig. 5. 



DescHption. — Test very elongate, slender, gracefully tapering, 

 somewhat curved, the initial end with a stout spine; chambers nu- 

 merous, early ones indistinct, last-formed ones much more distinct; 

 sutures of the early portion often indistinct, not at all depressed, 

 later ones very distinct between the inflated chambers; surface 

 ornamented by longitudinal costae, increasing in number as the 

 diameter of the test increases, earlier ones spiralh' twisted and reach- 

 ing to or onto the terminal spine, later ones straight, in the adult 

 15-20 in number, running to the apertural end, and their ends form- 

 ing a tooth-like crown about the aperture itself, the costae with the 

 peripheral portion rounded, often broadest in the central portion of 

 the chamber, narrowing over the sutures; aperture with a tapering 

 neck, usually eccentric. 



Length up to 8,50 mm. 



Distribution. — Type-specimen (U,S,N,M, Cat, No. 17804) from 

 Albatross station D2682, in 990 fathoms (1,811 meters), off the north- 

 eastern coast of the United States. The species is a very common 

 and characteristic one from the latitude of Cape Cod and Georges 

 Bank southward along the Atlantic coast, and into the Gulf of 

 Mexico, with a few stations in the Caribbean. Brady undoubtedly 

 had this species from his figures. Some of his records in the Chal- 

 lenger Summary of Results volume include a station off New York 

 in the midst of the area where there are numerous records for this 

 species. Others are from the region of Bermuda, off the West Indies, 

 and off the coast of Brazil. Some other records for the eastern 

 Atlantic are off the Canaries and the west coast of Africa. Flint's 

 records are all in the same region from which I have had abundant 

 Albatross material. I have not seen this species in European ma- 

 terial I have examined. It is recorded from about the British Isles 

 by several authors. 



