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Specimens are rarely obtained in an entire condition due to the 

 delicacy of the connecting stolonlike necks. It is a species of com- 

 paratively shallow and comparatively warm water from the records 

 available. 



NODOSARIA PYRULA d'Orbigny, var. SEMIRUGOSA d'Orbigny. 

 Plate 26, figs. 4-8. 



Nodosaria semirugosa d'Orbigny, Foram. Fosa. Bass. Tert. Vienne, 1846, p. 34, 



pi. 1, figs. 20-23.— Millett, Journ. Roy. Micr. Soc, 1902, p. 515, pi. 11, 



fig. 5. 

 Nodosaria No. 35, von Schlicht, Foram. Septarien Thones von Pietzpuhl, 1870, 



p. 24, pi. 7, fig. 20. 

 Nodosaria stipitata Reuss, var. costulata Reuss, Sitz. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 62, 



Abth. 1, 1870, p. 471. 

 Nodosaria costulata H. B. Brady, Rep. Voy. Challenger, Zoology, vol. 9, 1884, 



p. 515, pi. 63, figs. 23-27.— Flint, Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1897 (1899), p. 312, 



pi. 58, fig. 1. 



Description. — Similar to typical Nodosaria pyrula, but with the 

 basal portion of each chamber with several costsB and alternating 

 depressions. 



Distribution.- — Brady records this species at the Challenger station 

 off the Philippines in 95 fathoms. I have it from Albatross D4807 

 in 44 fathoms off Japan. From material examined it seems that 

 this is but a variable form of N. pyrula and frequently occurs with 

 it in tropical and subtropical waters. Millett is certainly right in 

 referring this form to N. semirugosa d'Orbigny. 



NODOSARIA GUTTIFERA (d'Orbigny). 

 Plate 35, fig. 5. 



Dentalina guttifera d'Orbigny, For. Foss. Bass. Tert. Vienne, 1846, p. 49, pi. 2, 

 figs. 11-13.— H. B. Brady, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 4, vol. 6, 1870, p. 296, 

 pi. 12, fig. 2. 



Nodosaria guttifera Steinmann, Elem. Palaeont., vol. 1, 1888, p. 27, fig. 8. B. — 

 Bagg, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 34, 1908, p. 143. 



Description. — Test composed of a few chambers, each pyriform in 

 shape connected by stolonlike tubes, broadly rounded at base, thence 

 tapering gradually to the apertural end, wall smooth. 



Length 2.5 mm. 



Distribution. — Bagg refers to this species fragments of Nodosaria 

 found at Albatross station H4566 in 572 fathoms off the Hawaiian 

 Islands. One of these is here figured. 



Of d'Orbigny's figures in the Vienna Basin Monograph, figure 11 

 seems certainly to be referable to N. pyrula d'Orbigny, but figure 13 

 is much more like the specimens found by Bagg. It is not like the 

 ordinary form or size of N. pyrula. 



