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BULLETIN 71, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



TEXTULARIA CANDEIANA d'Orbigny. 



Textularia candeiana d'Orbigny, in De la Sagra, Hist. Fis. Pol. Nat. Cuba, 1839, 

 "Foraminiferes," p. 143, pi. 1, figs. 25-27.— Fornasini, Mem. Accad. Sci. 

 Bologna, ser. 5, vol. 10, 1902-1904, p. 137, pi., fig. 8. 



Textularia sagittula, var. candeiana Mtllett, Journ. Roy. Micr. Soc, 1899, p. 562, 

 pi. 7, fig. 12. 



Description. — Test elongate, club-shaped, the early portion narrow, 

 much compressed, the edges almost carinate, slightly tapering to 

 the round-pointed apex, the later chambers enlarging rapidly, much 

 inflated; chambers numerous; wall rather coarsely arenaceous; 



aperture in a broad but shallow sinus at 

 the base of the inner margin of the cham- 

 ber; color dark gray. 



Length about 1 mm.; microspheric 

 proloculum about 0.015 mm. megalo- 

 spheric proloculum about 0.050 mm. 



Distribution. — There are no previously 

 recorded stations for this species in the 

 North Pacific. Fornasini refers Textu- 



Figs. 14-17.— Textularia candeiana. 14, Specimen from Hawaiian Islands. X 00. a, aperturai, 



VIEW; b, FRONT VIEW. 15, SPECIMEN FROM GASPAR STRAIT. X 00. O, APERTURAL VIEW; b, FRONT 

 VIEW. 16, MICROSPHERIC PROLOCULUM AND EARLY COILED CHAMBERS. X 115. 17, MEGALOSPHERIC 

 PROLOCULUM AND FOLLOWING CHAMBERS OF MEGALOSPHERIC FORM. X 115. 



laria polite Schwager, var. inflate Goes to this species. If such were 

 really the relationship of this form, Goes's specimens would provide 

 records for this area, but an examination of Goes's material shows it 

 to be very different. 



The species was found to be abundant in the region of the Hawa- 

 iian Islands in comparatively shallow water, at Nero stations 2042 



