FORAMINIFERA OF NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN. 



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Soklani's figure. With such a cop}'- and the subsequent figures 

 showing all sorts of arenaceous tests it is no wonder that there has 

 existed great confusion in regard to this species. 



The species is here restricted to those specimens showing the typ- 

 ical structure, such as Goes, 1894, pi. 5, fig. 158; pi. 6, figs. 164, 166, 

 167, and Flint, 1899, pi. 16, fig. 3. 



REOPHAX PILULIFER H. B. Erady. 



Reophax pilulifera H. B. Brady, Rep. Voy. Challenger, Zoology, vol. 9, 1884, p. 

 292, pi. 30, figs. 18-20.— H. B. Brady, Parker, and Jones, Trans. Zool. 

 Soc. London, vol. 12, pt. 7, 1888, p. 217, pi. 41, figs. 5-7 [8?].— Chapman, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. London, 1895, p. 15.— Goes, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool.. vol. 29, 1896, 

 p. 27.— Flint, Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1897 (1899), p. 273, pi. 18, fig. 1. 



Description. — Test composed of few (three to five) chambers, ar- 

 ranged in a straight or slightly arcuate line, chambers subglobose, 

 each much larger than the 

 preceding, walls of coarse 

 sand grains, but rather neat- 

 ly cemented with considera- 

 ble cement, giving a fairly 

 smooth exterior, aperture 

 small, often with a slight 

 neck-like protuberance. 



Length up to 2.5 mm. 



Distribution. — In the Chal- 

 lenger material from the 

 North Pacific this species oc- 

 curs at stations 237 and 244, 

 1,875 and 2,900 fathoms, east 

 of Japan. Goes found it in 

 the Albatross material at sta- 

 tion D3419, in 772 fathoms, 

 in the eastern tropical Pa- 

 cific, not 1,800 fathoms as he 

 recorded it. His selected 

 material consists of ten spec- 

 imens from this station, a typical one of which is here figured. I 

 have found two specimens from Albatross station D4957, in 437 fath- 

 oms, south of Japan. The figures given by Goes in 1894 are really R. 

 guttifer H. B. Brady. Fig. 8, at least, of Brady, Parker, and Jones, 

 1888, is very questionable. 



REOPHAX DISTANS H. B. Brady. 



Reophax distans II. B. Brady, Quart. Journ. Micr. Sci., vol. 21, 1881, p. 50; Rep. 

 Voy. Challenger, Zoology, vol. 9, 18S4, p. 29G, pi. 31, figs. 18-22.— Chai'M ax., 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1895, p. 15. — Goes, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 

 29, 1896, p. 27. 



Figs. 117-118.— Reophax pilulikei:. 117, specimen Fr.osi 



SERIES SELECTED BY GOES. X -0. US, ANOTHER SPECI- 

 MEN. X 35. 



