FORAMINIFERA OF NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN. 15 



few chambers, which are inflated, with distinctly depressed sutures; 

 chambers high; wall coarsely arenaceous, somewhat roughened; aper- 

 ture a subelliptical opening at the base of the inner margin of the 

 chamber. 



Length 1.26-2.25 mm. 



Distribution. — The only North Pacific record for this species is that 

 given by Bagg, from the vicinity of the Hawaiian Islands, Albatross 

 station D4000, in 104-213 fathoms. 



Brady figures specimens growing attached to the surface of the 

 test of Rhabdammina. They are surrounded at their attachment 

 by a light-colored material, probably related to the attached condi- 

 tion. This habit would tend to separate the species from true 

 Textularia, which is typically free. 



In some respects the species is not so greatly removed from cer- 

 tain species of Verneuilina. 



TEXTULARIA GOESII, new name. 



Textularia sag it tula DeFrance, var., Goes. Kongl. Svensk. Vet. Akad. Handl., 



vol. 19, No. 4, 1882, pi. 5, figs. 150-158. 

 Textularia trochus H. B. Brady (part), Rep. Voy. Challenger, Zoology, vol. 9, 



1884, p. 366, pi. 43, fig. 17 [not 15. 16. 18, 19]: pi. 44, figs. 1-3 [not T. trochus 



d'Orbigny], 



Description. — Test broadly triangular in front view, subcircular in 

 end view; in front view tapering abruptly to the apex, margins con- 

 vex; chambers low and broad, 

 sutures distinct, limbate, but 

 not deep; wall more or less 

 coarsely arenaceous but usually 

 rather smoothly finished ; aper- 

 ture linear, in a depression at 

 the base of the inner margin of 

 of the chamber. 



Length 0.85-2.25 mm. 



Distribution. — This species oc- 

 curs in rather shallow water in 



,. ,i -vt ,, Fig. 24.— Textularia ooSsn. x 35. a. front view; 



various parts of the _ North &, apertcral view (after Brady). 



Pacific. Bagg records it from 



Albatross station D4000, in 104-213 fathoms, in the vicinity of the 



Hawaiian Islands, as T. trochus. 



The synonymy of Textularia trochus illustrates well the rather inter- 

 esting confusion that has arisen through the desire to unite fossil and 

 recent species under the same name. Brady carried this union to an 

 extreme, and the majority of later writers have been willing to fol- 

 low the Challenger report blindly. The figure and description given 

 by d'Orbigny of his typical Textularia trochus from the cretaceous 



