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BULLETIN 104, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



oblique costae, which in the adult do not reach the last-fonned 

 cliambers. 



Length up to 4 mm. 



Distribution. — Type-specimen (U.S.N.M. Cat. No. 17404) from 

 Albatross station D2415, in 440 fathoms (805 meters), off the coast of 

 northern Florida. This is evidently the species described and figured 

 by Flint as V. linearis. It is probably also the same as the Chal- 

 lenger material referred by Brady to V. linearis^ but who mentions 

 that " the specimens are few in number and are hardly ever typical 

 as to minor characters." The specimens were from off Bermuda, 

 435 fathoms (796 meters), off Culebra Island, 390 fathoms (713 

 meters), and off the coast of South America, southeast of Pernam- 

 buco, 350 fathoms (640 meters) . Flint's specimens were from off the 

 coast of Georgia and Florida, 37-276 fathoms (68-505 meters). 

 Goes may have had this species from the Caribbean, mentioning one 

 as " only being perhaps more cylindric in the circumference " than the 

 topical. I have had specimens from several Albatross stations which 

 are given in the accompanying table. They range from Florida 

 along the eastern coast of the United States, the specimens being most 

 abundant off the coast of Georgia, where they are also recorded by 

 Flint. 



This species has a rounded base and is much more cylindrical than 

 v. linearis. 



Vaginulina americana — material examined. 



VAGINUUNA BERMUDENSIS, new species. 



Plate 38, fig. 2. 



Nodosarina legumen Linnaeus, var. linearis Goes (part), Kongl. Svensk. 

 Vet. Akad. Handl., vol. 19, No. 4, 1882, p. 39, pi. 2, fig. 32 (not 33, 35). 



Description. — Test elongate, curved, especially near the initial end, 

 circular in transverse section, initial end broadly rounded, in the 

 adult consisting of about 12 chambers; chambers veiy slightly in- 

 flated toward the apertural end; sutures rather indistinct, except 



