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BULLETIN 71, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



TEXTULARIA ABBREVIATA d'Orbigny. 



Textularia abbreviata d'Orbigny, For. Foss. Vienne, 1846, p. 249, pi. 15, figa. 

 9-12 (7-12).— Egger, Neues Jahrb., 1857, p. 293, pi. 12, figs. 17, 18.— 

 Fornasini, Boll. Soc. Geol. Ital., vol. 6, 1887, p. 399, pi. 11, figs, la, b, 3a, 

 b. — H. B. Brady, Parker, and Jones, Trans. Zool. Soc. London, vpl. 12, 



1888, p. 219, pi. 42, figs. 4, 5. — Terrizi, Mem. Accad. Lincei, ser. 4, vol. 6, 



1889, p. 109, pi. 5, fig. 3. — Fornasini, Mem. Accad. Sci. Bologna, ser. 5, 

 vol. 10, 1902-1904, p. 139, pi., fig. 10. 



Description. — Test short and broad, somewhat compressed, the 

 apical end bluntly and the apertural end broadly rounded ; chambers 



few, broad and low; 

 sutures indistinct; 

 wall arenaceous, 

 fairly smooth; aper- 

 ture at the inner 

 border of the cham- 

 ber rather narrow 

 and deep; color gray. 

 Length about 0.50 

 mm., breadth 0.65 

 mm. 

 Distribution. — Ap- 

 parently not previously recorded from the North Pacific. The figured 

 specimen is from the coast of Japan, Albatross station D4968, in 253 

 fathoms. 



Fig. 20.— Textularia abbreviata. x 00. a, apertural view; 



b, FRONT VIEW. 



TEXTULARIA ASPERA H. B. Brady. 

 Textularia aspera H. B. Brady, Proc. 



Roy. 



Soc. Edinburgh, vol. 11, 1882, p. 715; Rep. 

 Voy. Challenger, Zoology, vol. 9, 1884, p. 

 367, pi. 44, figs. 9-13.— Egger, Abh. kon. 

 bay. Akad. Wiss. Miinchen, CI. n, vol. 18, 

 1893, p. 270, pi. 6, figs. 32, 33.— Bagg, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 34, 1908, p. 130. 



Figs. 21-23.— Textularia aspera. 21, specimens growing attached to a fragment of Rhab- 

 dammina. x 20. 22, front view of specimen detached. x 25. 23, end view of another 

 specimen. x 25. (after brady.j 



Description. — Test free or adherent, rather broad, slightly tapering, 

 somewhat compressed, in end view broadly rounded, composed of 



