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Distribution. — Brady records this species at the Challenger station 

 off the Philippines in 95 fathoms. I have had material from three 

 stations, Tuscarora 2, lat. 21° 07' N., long. 158° 14' W., in 1,468 

 fathoms, and Albatross D4843 in 100 fathoms and D4979 in 943 

 fathoms. The bottom temperatures at these two stations were 39.9° 

 and 36.4° F., respectively. 



In some ways this species is intermediate between N. pyrula and 

 N. soluta, and may be only a variety of the former. The peculiar 

 dark appearance of the clear portions is rather distinctive. 



NODOSARIA SOLUTA (Reuss). . 



Plate 26, figs. 9-11. 



Dentalina soluta Reuss, Zeitschr. deutsch. geol. Ges., vol. 3, 1851, p. 60, pi. 3, 

 figs. 4a, b— Stache, Novara Exped., Geol. Theil, vol. 1, 1864, p. 203, pi. 22, 

 fig. 29.— Hantken, Mitth. Jahrb. Ung. Geol. Anstalt., vol. 4, 1875, p. 29, 

 pi. 2, figs. 2, 14. 



Nodosaria soluta Bornemann, Zeitschr. deutsch. geol. Ges., vol. 7, 1855, p. 322, 

 pi. 12, fig. 12.— Reuss, Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 25, 1865, p. 131, 

 pi. 2, figs. 4-8.— H. B. Brady, Rep. Voy. Challenger, Zoology, vol. 9, 1884, 

 p. 503, pi. 62, figs. 13-16; pi. 64, fig. 28. — Sherborn and Chapman, Journ. 

 Roy. Micr. Soc, 1886, p. 746, pi. 14, figs. 25, 26. — Burrows, Sherborn, 

 and Bailey, Journ. Roy. Micr. Soc, 1890, p. 557, pi. 9, fig. 26. — Chapman, 

 Journ. Roy. Micr. Soc, 1893, p. 587, pi. 8, fig. 26.— Goes, Kongl. Svensk. 

 Vet. Akad. Handl., vol. 25, No. 9, 1894, p. 70, pi. 12, fig. 690; Bull. Mus. 

 Comp. Zool., vol. 29, 1896, p. 62— Flint, Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1897 (1899), 

 p. 310, pi. 56, fig. 3.— Millett, Journ. Roy. Micr. Soc, 1902, p. 516.— Bagg, 

 Proc U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 34, 1908, p. 144. 



Description. — Test elongate, somewhat arcuate, comparatively 

 stout, composed of rather few globular or ovate chambers, inflated, 

 sutures much depressed, aperture radiate with an acute neck, apical 

 end often with a short spine ; wall of the distal portion of the chamber 

 smooth, the proximal half of each chamber usually roughened, often 

 conspicuously so, sometimes faintly striate; color chalky white, 

 opaque. 



Length up to 6 mm. or more. 



Distribution. — Goes recorded this species from the eastern Pacific 

 at three Albatross stations, D3375, in 1,201 fathoms; D3376, in 1,132 

 fathoms ; and D3407, in 885 fathoms. Flint records it from Albatross 

 station, D2805, in 51 fathoms, Panama Bay, and Bagg from one 

 Albatross station, H4964, in 865 fathoms, off the Hawaiian Islands. 

 The only stations from which I have had material are, Nero 1298, 

 in 1,711 fathoms, off Japan, and Albatross D4957, in 437 fathoms, 

 also off Japan. 



