FORAMINIFERA OF NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN. 



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Distribution . — As Brady includes this under Verneuilina propinqua, 

 it is impossible to know at which stations this species occurred 

 without consulting his material. Goes's specimens, one of which 

 is figured here, were from Albatross station D3419, in 772 fathoms, 

 off the west coast of Mexico, attached to tubes of Bhabdammina 

 irregularis W. B. Carpenter. 



Fios. 90-91.— Verneuilina affixa. X 25. 90, specimen attached to Rhaudammina. 



91, APERTURAL VIEW OF DETACHED SPECIMEN. 



This species is different in every way from typical V. propinqua 

 II. B. Brady. It is higher and more tapering, and is usually distinctly 

 bent toward the tip. The chambers are more numerous and less 

 inflated, the later with a tendency to become biserial; and it differs 

 also in the attached habit with its consequent modifications of the 

 apertural portion of the test. 



The light gray or white border of loose material about the area of 

 attachment appears to be common to a large number of attached 

 forms which are not at all related. 



VERNEUILINA PUSILLA Goes. 



Verneuilina pusilla Goes, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 29, 1896, p. 39, pi. 5, 

 figs. 6-8. 



Description. — "Short, often nearly cylindrical, with very little 

 inflated segments, or sometimes ovoid with inflated segments; aper- 

 ture a sutural slit or an obliquely set comma- 

 formed fissure. Pale yellow or whitish." 



Length 0.50-0.66 mm. 



Distribution. — This species was described 

 by Goes from Albatross station D3431, in 

 995 fathoms, at the entrance of the Gulf of fig. 9 2.-verneuil.na pusilla 



. (after Goes). 



California. 



I have carefully examined the mounted set returned to the U. S. 

 National Museum by Goes from the above station and labeled 

 Verneuilina pusilla Goes on the original label. The specimens do 

 not fit the description or figures at all well, but many of the figures 



