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NODOSARIA PAUPERATA (d'Orbigny). 

 Plate 25, fig. 7. 



Dentalina pauperata d'Orbigny, For. Foss. Bass. Tert. Vienne, 1846, p. 46, pi. 1, 

 figs. 57, 58. — Bornemann, Zeitschr. deutsch. geol. Ges., vol. 7, 1855, p. 324, 

 pi. 13, fig. 7. — H. B. Brady, Proc. Somerset Arch, and Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 

 13, 1867, p. 108, pi. 1, fig. 14. 



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

 p. 500, woodcuts figs. 14a, b, c. — Goes, Kongl. Svensk. Vet. Akad. Handl., 

 vol. 25, No. 9, 1894, p. 68, pi. 12, figs. 682-688 [part]; Bull. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool., vol. 29, 1896, p. 61— Bagg, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 34, 1908, p. 144. 



Description. — Test comparatively short, slightly arched, tapering, 

 composed of a few chambers, cylindrical in the early portion, later 

 chambers more inflated; apical end usually with a short spine; aper- 

 tural end slightly prolonged. 



Length 2 mm. 



Distribution. — Goes records rather poor examples of this species 

 from three Albatross stations in the eastern Pacific, D3363 in 978 

 fathoms, D3376 in 1,132 fathoms, and D3399 in 1,740 fathoms. 

 Bagg records it from the vicinity of the Hawaiian Islands at two Alba- 

 tross stations, D4000 in 104-213 fathoms and D4025 in 275-368 

 fathoms. These specimens also are not typical, one broken one being 

 here figured. It is not mucronate and the apertural portion is 

 broken away. 



NODOSARIA ABYSSORUM H. B. Brady. 



Plate 28, fig. 7. 



Nodosaria (?) abyssorum H. B. Brady, Quart. Journ. Micr. Sci., vol. 21, 1881, p. 

 63; Rep. Voy. Challenger, Zoology, vol. 9, 1884, p. 504, pi. 63, figs. 8, 9.— 

 Egger, Abh. kon. bay. Akad. Wiss. Munchen, CI. n, vol. 18, 1893, p. 342, 

 pi. 11, fig. 11 [?]. 



Description. — Test elongate, composed of several chambers, straight 

 or slightly arcuate, chambers inflated, subspherical, sutures much 

 depressed, surface smooth, apical end broadly rounded, with a group 

 of short acicular spines; aperture at the end of a short neck, with a 

 phialine lip. 



Length up to 4 mm. 



Distribution. — This species has not previously been recorded in the 

 North Pacific. I have it from two stations, Nero 1302 in 1,331 

 fathoms and 1867 in 2,311 fathoms in the western Pacific. The 

 figured specimen from the first station is evidently broken, showing 

 but the two early chambers. The specimen from the second station 

 is also broken, but composed of eight chambers, and except for the 

 larger number of chambers and broken lip is very similar to Brady's 

 figures in the Challenger report. 



This seems to be a rare, deep-water species. 



