90 BULLETIN 104, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Distiibution. — Brady originally described this species from Chal- 

 lenger station 33, off Bermuda, at a depth of 435 fathoms (796 

 meters). In the volume on Summary of Results of the Challenger 

 Expedition NodosaHa intercellularis is recorded from station 23, 

 off Sombrero Island, 450 fathoms (823 meters) with a question, 

 and from station 24, off Culebra Island, 390 fathoms (713 meters), 

 without question. As has already been noted in many species of the 

 Lagenidae particularly, these two stations, with that from off Ber- 

 muda, contain many identical species and species which are also 

 peculiar to the warmer waters of the western Atlantic. With these 

 as a basis, it is interesting to find very typical specimens of this 

 species from Albatross station D2756, in 417 fathoms (763 meters), 

 off the coast of Brazil and a single broken fragment from D2150, 

 in 382 fathoms (697 meters), in the Caribbean. All these stations 

 together mark very definitely the range of so many and peculiar 

 species of this region. An examination of Goes's paper on the 

 Caribbean region shows that his figure is very clearly this species. 

 He refers to it the specimen from off the Azores and which is 

 referred to above. This may possibly be the same. 



Brady gives a considerable note on the peculiar structure of this 

 species. Our specimens show this character very well. In view of 

 the restricted range of so many species of the western tropical At- 

 lantic it is interesting to examine the other records referred to 

 Nodosaria intercellularis H. B. Brady. The first of these, that of 

 Egger,^^ records the species from Mauritius and off western Aus- 

 tralia. A reference to his figure, however, shows decidedly that his 

 figured specimen is not identical with the very well characterized 

 specimens figured by Brady and which I have seen from the Alba- 

 tross material. Chapman ^^ records the species as very rare in the 

 Arabian Sea, but the name is followed by a question mark in his text 

 and may therefore probably be eliminated. He records it as very 

 rare in 200 fathoms (366 meters) outside Funafuti Reef,^^ but no 

 figure is given and the record will have to stand on Chapman's de- 

 termination. Dakin records it sparingly from the Gulf of Manaar.^* 

 This also, without figure, may or may not be this species. Chapman 

 also records " one typical specimen " from the Gingin Chalk of Aus- 

 tralia. This specimen is figured and certainly does not appear to 

 be identical with our western Atlantic species, as the form of the 

 chaml>ers is very different. It would seem, therefore, that this species 

 is a recent one of the western Atlantic and a possibility that it occurs 

 in the Indo-Pacific region. 



"Abh. kon. bay. Akad. Wiss. Munchen, CI. II, vol. 18, 1893, p. 345, pi. 11, figs. 12, 23. 

 " Proc. Zool. Soc. London, pt. 1, 1805, p. 32. 

 "Journ. Linn. Soo. Zoology, voL 28, 1902, p. 402. 

 " Rep. Ceylon Pearl Oyster Wish., vol. 5, 1906, p. 235. 



