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area often develops spines, reminding one somewhat of the condition 

 seen in Nodosaria odolphina D'Orbigny and its relatives. This species 

 is probably to be found at considerable depths throughout the West 

 Indian region and should be carefully compared with that from the 

 Pacific. 



Nodosaria antillea — material examined. 



NODOSARIA HISPIDA D'Orbiitny. 



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! Plate 16, fig. 6. 



There are records for this species off Dublin and Wicklow, a single 

 specimen only ; ^'^ off the Isle of Man ; ^'^ and from the Estuary of the 

 Dee (Siddall)." 



Balkwill and Wright's figure shows a species different from that 

 of the western Atlantic unless it is similar to Nodosaria sublineata 

 H. B. Brady. No typical Nodosaria hispida has been found in the 

 material I have examined from the western Atlantic. 



NODOSARIA HIRSUTA D'Orbigny, var. ACULEATA D'Orbigny. 



Plate 17, fig. 4. 



Nodosaria aciilcata D'Orbigny, Foraiu. Foss. Vieiino, 1846, p. 35, pi. 1, figs. 



26, 27. 

 Nodosaria hirsuta D'Orbigny, var. acuJeata Cushman, Bull. 100, U. S. Nat. 



Mils., vol. 4, 1921. p. 214, pi. 38, figs. 7, 8. 



Description. — Variety with the test covered with coarse aculeate 

 spines, radiately placed on the exterior, the chambers themselves 

 elongate, and the apertural end with an elongate neck ending in a 

 series of large triangular teeth. 



Distrihution. — I have already recorded this variety from the Philip- 

 pine region, and it is interesting to find specimens apparently identi- 

 cal with the Philippine material in the northern part of the Gulf of 

 Mexico at 196 and 210 fathoms (359 and 384 meters). The Philip- 

 pine stations ranged from 201-554 fathoms (368-1,012 meters). 



^sB.olkwill and Wright, I'roc. Roy. Irish Acad., ser. 2, vol. .3, 1882, p. 548. 

 ^» Balkwill and Wright, Trans. Roy. Irish .\cad., vol. 28, 1885, p. 343. 

 w H. B. Brady, .Tourn. Roy. Micr. Soc, 1887, p. 909. 



