FOBAMINIFERA OF NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN. 



spheric specimens were found in the material from Gaspar Strait, 

 figs. 7 and 8. In the specimen of the micro-spheric form but few 



Fig. 9.— TEXTULARIA GRAMEN. a, SIDE view, showing the peculiarly modified chambers in the 



LATER GROWTH; 6, END VIEW. X 00. 



chambers were included in the early coiled portion. The megalo- 

 spheric form was, as usual, much the more common of the two. 



TEXTULARIA AGGLUTINANS d'Orbigny. 



Textularia agglutinins d'Orbigny, in De la Sagra, Hist. Fis. Pol. Nat. 

 Cuba, 1839, " Foraminiferes," p. 136, pi. 1, figs. 17, 18, 32-34.— Parker 

 and Jones, Philos. Trans. Roy. Soc, vol. 155, 1865, p. 369. — Mcebius, 

 Beitr. Meeresfauna d. Insel Mauritius, 1SS0, p. 93, pi. 9, figs. 1-8. — H. B 

 Brady/, Rep. Voy. Challenger, Zoology, 

 vol. 9, 1SS4, p. 363, pi. 43, figs. 1, 

 2. — Egger, Abh. kon. bay. Akad. 

 WLss. Miincben, CI. n, vol. 18, 1893, 

 p. 267, pi. 6, figs. 1, 2.— Goes, Kongl. 

 Svensk. Vet. Akad. Handl., vol. 25, 

 No. 1, 1894, p. 35, pi. 7, figs. 300, 

 301; Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 29, 

 1896, p. 41.— Millett, Journ. Roy. Micr. 

 Soc, 1899, p. 562. — Sidebottom, Mem. 

 and Proc. Manchester Lit. and Philos. 

 Soc, vol. 49, No. 5, 1905,].. 7. 



Description. — 

 Test large and 

 stout, some- 

 what elongate, 

 the chambers 

 high, rotund; 

 wall coarsely 

 arenaceous in 

 surface view, 

 with a calcare- 

 ous base as seen 



in section, the early chambers somewhat compressed, in end view 

 somewhat rounded ; aperture in a well-marked depression of the inner 

 border of the chamber, slitlike; surface roughened; last-formed 

 chamber often more smooth. 



Length 1-3 mm. 



FlG. 10.— TEXTULARIA AGGLUTINANS. X 40. O, FRONT VIEW; 6, END VIEW. 



