FORAMINIFEKA OF NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN. 49 



NODOSARIA SIMPLEX Silvestri. 



Plate 28, fig. 5. 



Nodosaria simplex Silvestri, Atti Accad. Gioenia, Catania, ser. 3, vol. 7, 1872, 

 p. 95, pi. 11, figs. 268-272.— H. B. Brady, Rep. Voy. Challenger, Zoology, 

 vol. 9, 1884, p. 496, pi. 62, figs. 4, 5, and 6?— Egger, Abh. kon. bay. Akad. 

 Wiss. Munchen, CI. n, vol. 18, 1893, p. 340, pi. 11, fig. 6.— Flint, Rep. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., 1897 (1899), p. 309, pi. 55, fig. 2. 



Description. — Test composed of two or more chambers, the initial 

 chamber globular with a short spine at the base, the second pyriform 

 with a well drawn out neck and radiate aperture; wall smooth, 

 sutures well depressed. 



Length about 1 mm. 



Distribution. — There are no previously published records for this 

 species in the North Pacific. The only record I have is Albatross 

 D2806 off the Galapagos Islands in 1,379 fathoms. The specimen 

 obtained here is very typical, like Silvestri's figures and like fig. 4 

 of the Challenger report. 



NODOSARIA PYRULA d'Orbigny. 



Plate 26, figs. 1-3. 



"Orthoceras Monile" Soldani, Testaceographia, vol. 2, 1798, p. 35, pi. 10, 

 figs. b, c. 



Nodosaria pyrula d'Orbigny, Ann. Sci. Nat., vol. 7, 1826, p. 253, No. 13. — 

 Williamson, Rec. Foram. Great Britain, 1858, p. 17, pi. 2, fig. 39. — H. B. 

 Brady, Rep. Voy. Challenger, Zoology, vol. 9, 1884, p. 497, pi. 62, figs, 10- 

 12. — Balkwill and Wright, Trans. Roy. Irish Acad., vol. 28, 1885, p. 343, 

 pi. 12, fig. 23. — H. B. Brady, Parker, and Jones, Trans. Zool. Soc. London, 

 vol. 12, 1888, p. 223, pi. 44, fig. 2.— Egger, Abh. kon. bay. Akad. Wiss. 

 Munchen, CI. n, vol. 18, 1893, p. 345, pi. 11, figs. 14, 15.— Flint, Rep. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., 1897 (1899), p. 309, pi. 55, fig. 4.— Millett, Journ. Roy. Micr. 

 Soc., 1902, p. 514. 



Description. — Test elongate, very slender, composed of numerous 

 chambers, either in a straight or slightly curved line, pyriform in 

 shape with long tapering necks; surface smooth, chambers varying 

 little in size; proloculum extended backward in a long drawn out 

 point. 



Length up to 8 mm. 



Distribution. — Brady records this species at two Challenger sta- 

 tions, 95 fathoms off the Philippines and the Hyalonema-grounds 

 off Japan, 345 fathoms. Goes had specimens which he records under 

 N. monile from two Albatross stations, D3375 in 1,201 fathoms and 

 D3431 in 995 fathoms, in the eastern Pacific. I have seen only broken 

 specimens in the material examined from Albatross station D4891, off 

 Japan, 181 fathoms, bottom temperature 50.2° F., and D4807, off 

 Japan, in 44 fathoms. 



