FORAMINIFERA OF NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN. 



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ASTRORHIZA GRANULOSA (H. B. Brady). 



Marsipella granulosa H. B. Brady, Quart. Journ. Micr. Sci., vol. 19, i879, p. 36, 



pi. 3, figs. 8, 9. — Butschli, in Bronns, Klassen und Ordnungen des Thier- 



reichs, vol. 1, 1880, p. 194, pi. 5, fig. 9. 

 Astrorhiza granulosa H. B. Brady, Quart. Journ. Micr. Sci., vol. 21, 1881, p. 48; Rep. 



Voy. Challenger, Zoology, vol. 9, 1884, p. 234, pi. 20, figs. 14-23.— Netjmayr, 



Stamme Thierreichs, vol. 1, 1889, p. 173, fig. 17d. — Goes, Bull. Mus. Comp. 



Zool., vol. 29, 1896, p. 19.— Flint, Rep. IT. S. Nat. Mus., 1897 (1899), p. 



265, pi. 1.— Rhumbler, Arch. Protistk., vol. 3, 1903, p. 219, fig. 41 (in text). 

 Rhabdammina granulosa Eimer and Fickert, Zeitschr. wiss. Zool., vol. 65, 1899, 



p. 667. 



Description. — Test fusiform, tapering toward the ends, internally 

 with a long tubular chamber of nearly uniform diameter, open at 



Figs. 2-4.— Astrorhiza furcata. 2, 3, 4 a, face view of three specimens selected by Goes from 

 the type station; 4 6, side view. X 10. 



both ends, the apertures sometimes more or less closed by particles 

 of sand; wall composed of fine siliceous sand, loosely cemented 

 externally, occasionally with tests of Globigerina or other foreign 

 particles cemented into the test, ends often with a brownish tinge, 

 the rest of the test grayish. 



Maximum length, 5-7 mm. 



Distribution. — I have had material of this species from four stations 

 in the North Pacific. Of these one is the station recorded by Goes, 

 Albatross station, D.3375, southwest of Panama in 1,201 fathoms 

 from globio-erina ooze. The other three stations are in the North- 



