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ceous, the surface somewhat rough or nearly smooth; aperture elon- 

 gate at the base of the inner margin of the chamber; color brown. 

 Length up to 3.6 mm. 



Distribution. — Brady records this species from three Challenger 

 stations in the southwestern portion of the North Pacific, in 95, 2,050, 

 and 2,900 fathoms. Goes records the species, but his Pacific material 

 belongs to the following species, and his Atlantic is V. bradyi. In 

 the Albatross, Nero, and Tusearora soundings the species has occurred 

 at a number of stations from off California to the coast of Japan. 

 Its most shallow occurrence is 905 fathoms and 

 the deepest 2,086 fathoms. 



The vertical columns of chambers are straight 

 as in V. bradyi and show no tendency toward 

 the spiral form as in V. polystropha. 



VERNEUILINA BRADYI, new name. 



Verneuilina pygmsea H. B. Brady, Rep. Yoy. Chal- 

 lenger, Zoology, vol. 9, 1884, p. 385, pi. 47, figs. 4-7 

 (not Bulimina pygmxa'Egger). — Flint, Rept. V. S. 

 Nat. Mus., 1897 (1899), p. 285, pi. 31, fig. 1. 



Verneuilina propinqua Goes, Bull. Mus. Oomp. Zool., 

 vol. 29, 1896, p. 38 (part). 



Description. — Test pyramidal, the triserial 

 chambers inflated, the wall finely arenaceous; 

 about five visible chambers in each vertical se- 

 ries; surface smooth, but not usually polished; 

 aperture an elongated slit near the base of the 

 inner margin of the chamber, occasionally with 

 a thickened lip; color light gray. 

 Length 0.60-1.50 mm. 



Distribution. — Apparently this species is widely 

 distributed in the deeper water of all the oceans. 

 The only North Pacific records are those of 

 Brady, who found the species in material from six Challenger sta- 

 tions in this area ranging in depth from 1,850-3,125 fathoms. In 

 the material which I have examined the species has occurred many 

 times. No station with a depth of less than 1,000 fathoms gave 

 specimens of this species. This accords with Brady's observations 

 on the Challenger material, where but 8 out of 42 stations at which 

 this species occurred were of a depth of less than a thousand fathoms, 

 and 14 were greater than 2,000. Only one of our stations is below 

 the 2,000 fathom mark, though several are close to it. The shal- 

 lowest station from which I have seen specimens had a depth 

 of 1,040 fathoms. In general the stations are well scattered over 

 the area of the North Pacific where dredging has been done, except 



Fig. 8C.-Verxeuii.ina 

 propinqua. X 35. a, 



A PERT I R A I. V I EW I h , 

 FRONT VIEW. 



