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BULLETIN 104, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



I have had specimens from the eastern tropical Pacific which seem 

 very simihir to this, but that I have recorded from the Philippines 

 is different.''*' 



As developed in the western Atlantic this is a very well-defined 

 species. 



Nodosaria flintii — material examined. 



NODOSARIA VERTEBRALIS (Batsch). 

 Plate 14, fig. 6. 



There are various forms of this general type which may be referred 

 to Nodosaria vertehralis (Batsch), although the original figure is not 

 as perfect as might be wished. The West Indian species has stout, 

 broad chambers, and the last-formed chamber rotund with a short 

 apertural extension. 



Flint records Nodosaria catenulata H. B. Brady from the Gulf of 

 Mexico at Albatross station D2400.''' I have a specimen from the 



« Bull. 100, U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 4, 1921. p. 210, pi. 38, fig. 1. 

 "Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1897 (1899), p. 312, pi. 58, fig. 2. 



