FORAMINIFERA OF NOETH PACIFIC OCEAN. 



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1,875-2,900 fathoms. These stations are in the deep portion of 

 the western Pacific, the first of the stations off the east coast of 

 Japan. 



The only Albatross material I have seen which may be referred to 

 this species is a portion of the specimens selected by Goes from Alba- 

 tross station D3375, in 1,201 fathoms, in the eastern tropical Pacific. 

 These were all called by Goes Rhizammina indivisa, but some of them 

 evidently belong here. 



PELOSINA VARIABILIS H. B. Brady. 



Pelosina variabilis H. B. Brady, Quart. Journ. Micr. Sci., vol. 19, 1879, p. 30, pi. 

 3, figs. 1-3; Rep. Voy. Challenger, Zoology, vol. 9, 1884, p. 235, pi. 26, figs. 7-9.— 

 Flint, Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1897 (1899), p. 266, pi. 4, fig. 1.— Rhumbler, 

 Arch. Protistk., vol. 3, 1903, p. 239, fig. 74 (in text). 



Description. — -Test consisting of a single fusiform chamber, or of 

 two or three independent 

 chambers, irregularly as- 

 sociated, but usually at the 

 apertural end of the first 

 chamber; wall thick, com- 

 posed of mud and some 

 foreign particles loosely 

 aggregated, the basal layer 

 being chitinous, apertural 

 end somewhat extended 

 into a tubular neck, the 

 wall of which is membran- 

 aceous, at its end a circu- 

 lar aperture, chamber 

 within conforming to the 

 shape of the test; color 

 gray. 



Diameter at widest por- 

 tion about 2 mm., length 

 18-20 mm. 



Distribution. — In the 

 North Pacific this species 

 is known only from a single 

 Challenger station, 246, in 2,050 fathoms, situated in the deep por- 

 tion of the middle part of the North Pacific. 



Genus TECHNITELLA Norman, 1878. 



Technitella Norman (type, T. legumen Norman), Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 5, 

 vol. 1, 1878, p. 279.— H. B. Brady, Rep. Voy. Challenger, Zoology, vol. 9, 

 1884, p. 245.— Rhumbler, Arch. Protistk., vol. 3, 1903, p. 256. 



Description. — Test free, usually elongate, subcylindrical, fusiform 

 or elongate-oval, interior consisting of a single chamber; wall thin, 



Fig. 52.— Pelosina variabilis. X 20 (after Flint). 



