POEAMINIFERA OF NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN. 



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that it did not occur in the 1906 soundings from about Japan. 

 Most of the work done here, however, was in more shallow water. 



There has been considerable doubt in the 

 minds of various authors as to the correctness 

 of assigning our recent species to the some- 

 what incomplete figure of Bullmina pygmssa 

 given by Egger. a Brady remarks upon 

 the doubtfulness of using Egger's name for 

 this species. Goes also is inclined to ques- 

 tion the identity. 



From a study of the available data it 

 seems to me very unwise to refer our well 

 characterized recent species to the very 

 doubtful and ill characterized fossil species. 

 Egger's figure does not at all represent our 

 common recent species nor does the later 

 figure given by Goes. 6 Neither TexiUaria 

 trise riata Terquem nor Verneuilina rotund <ita 

 Karrer are clearly tins species, certainly 

 not the former, although both are included 

 by Brady under V. pygmsea. In such a 

 case it seems best to use a new name for 

 our recent species, and from the clear descrip- 

 tion and excellent figures given by Brady 

 his name is used here for the species. 



An examination of the series selected by 

 Goes shows that a part of his specimens referred to V. propingua 

 are in reality V. oradyi and not V. propingua H. B. Brady. 



Fig. 87.— Verneuilix.v bradyi. 



X 40. (I, FRONT view; h, APER- 

 Tl'RAL VIEW. 



VERNEUILINA SPINULOSA Reuss. 



Verneuilina spinulosa Reuss, Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 1, 1850, p. 374, 

 pi. 47, fig. 12.— Egger, Neues Jahrb., 1857, p. 292, pi. 9, figs. 17, 18.— H. B. 

 Brady, Rep. Voy. Challenger, Zoology, vol. 9, 18S4, p. 384, pi. 47, figs. 1-3.— 

 H. B. Brady, Parker, and Jones, Trans. Zool. Soc. London, vol. 12, 1888, 

 p. 219, pi. 42, fig. 15 (not fig. 14). — Wright, Proc. Roy. Irish Acad., ser. 3, 

 vol. 1, 1891, p. 472.— Millett, Journ. Roy. Micr. Soc, 1900, p. 11.— Side- 

 bottom, Mem. Proc. Manchester Lit. and Philos. Soc, vol. 49, No. 5, 1905, 

 p. 10, pi. 2, fig. 5.— Rhumbler, Zool. Jahrb., Abth. Syst., vol. 24, 1906, 

 p. 61, pi. 5, fig. 53.— Bagg, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 34, 1908, p. 132. 



Description. — Test pyramidal, three-sided, triangular in transverse 

 section, the sides flat or slightly concave, the initial end acutely 



a Neues Jahrb. fur Min., 1857, p. 284, pi. 12, figs. 10, 11. 



&Goes, Kongl. Svensk. Vet. Akad. Handl., vol. 25, No. 9, L894, p. 33, pi. 7, figs. 

 262, 263. 



