52 BULLETIN" 71, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



NODOSARIA PROXIMA Silvestrl. 



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

 p. 63, pi. 6, figs. 138-147.— H. B. Brady, Rep. Voy. Challenger, Zoology, 

 vol. 9, 1884, p. 511, pi. 64, fig. 15. — Fornasini, Mem. Accad. Sci. Bologna, 

 eer. 5, vol. 4, 1894, p. 206, pi. 1, figs. 33-35.— Millet, Journ. Roy. Micr. Sci., 

 1902, p. 519, pi. 11, fig. 9. 



Description. — Test composed of few chambers, usually two, with 

 several costse, apical end often spinose; aperture at the end of a tubu- 

 lar neck. 



Length 1 mm. 



Distribution. — Brady records this species from two North Pacific 

 stations, off the Philippines in 95 fathoms and from the coral reefs 

 of Honolulu, Sandwich Islands, in 40 fathoms. I have seen no mate- 

 rial which can not be referred to other species as young specimens. 



NODOSARIA RADICULA (Linnaeus). 



"Cornu Hammonis erectum" Plancus, Conch. Min., 1739, p. 14, pi. 1, fig. 5. 



Nautilus radicula Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, 1767, p. 1164, 285; (Gmelin's) ed. 

 13, 1788, vol. 1, pt. 6, p. 3373, No. 18.— Montagu, Test. Brit., 1803, p. 

 197, pi. 6, fig. 4. 



Nodosaria radicula d'Orbigny, Ann. Sci. Nat., vol. 7, 1826, p. 252, No. 3; Modeles, 

 No. 1. — H. B. Brady, Proc. Somerset Arch, and Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 13, 

 1867, p. 106, pi. 1, fig. 4; Rep. Voy. Challenger, Zoology, vol. 9, 1884, p. 495, 

 pi. 61, figs. 28-31. — Sherborn and Chapman, Journ. Roy. Micr. Soc, 1886, 

 p. 746, pi. 14, fig. 24.— Goes, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 29, 1896, p. 60.— 

 Flint, Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1897 (1899), p. 309, pi. 55, fig. 1.— Millett, 

 Journ. Roy. Micr. Soc, 1902, p. 513. 



Description. — Test elongate, composed of three or four chambers, 

 with but slightly depressed sutures, wall smooth, apical end with a 

 short spine; aperture at the end of a slightly produced neck. 



Length about 2 mm. 



Distribution. — Goes records this species from one Albatross station 

 in the eastern Pacific, D3375 in 1,201 fathoms. I have had speci- 

 mens from Albatross station H2999 in 549 fathoms, off the Hawaiian 

 Islands, and from two Nero stations 1463 in 951 fathoms and 990 in 

 859 fathoms, both off Guam. 



NODOSARIA INFLEXA Reuss. 



Plate 25, fig. 1. 



Nodosaria inflexa Reuss, Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 25, 1866, p. 131, pi. 2, 

 fig. 1; Sitz. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 62, 1870, p. 472, No. 16.— von Schlicht, 

 For. Septarien Thones von Pietzpuhl, 1870, pi. 38, fig. 3. — H. B. Brady, 

 Rep. Voy. Challenger, Zoology, vol. 9, 1884, p. 498, pi. 62, fig. 9. 



Description. — Test elongate, tapering, slightly arcuate, chambers 

 comparatively few, pyriform, united to one another with slight necks; 

 wall smooth, portion of each chamber near the distal end clear, giv- 

 ing a darker appearance to that portion of the chamber. 



Length 2 mm. or more. 



