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marked by closely set, slightly depressed, transverse lines. Aperture 

 a simple terminal rounded orifice." 



"Length -fa inch (0.75 mm.)." 



Distribution. — Described by Brady from material dredged from 

 Honolulu coral reefs in 40 fathoms. 



The description and figures are from Brady. He questions whether 

 or not the species may be a Sagrina and until further material may 

 be found its affinities can not clearly be determined. 



Subfamily 5. R^MITJLINIlSrjE:. 



Test composed of branching tubular masses with rounded cham- 

 ber-like portions at irregular intervals. 



Genus RAMULINA Rupert-Jones, 1875. 



Ramulina Rupert-Jones (type, R. Ixvis Rupert-Jones) in Wright, Rep. Proc. 

 Belfast Nat. Field Club, 1873-74, App. Ill, 1875, p. 88 [90]. 



Description. — Test free, branching, consisting of more or less 

 round chambers connected by long stolonif erous tubes ; wall hyaline. 



This genus includes rather ill-defined forms, suggesting the so-called 

 "wild growth" seen in the final chambers of certain species of Poly- 

 morphina. Just what its relations are to the rest of the Lagenidae is 

 not really determined. It seems to occur in the Cretaceous and there 

 are one or two recent species. 



RAMULINA GLOBULIFERA H. B. Brady. 



Plate 39, fig. 1. 



Ramulina globulij "era H. B. Brady, Quart. Journ. Micr. Sci., vol. 19, 1879, p. 58, 

 pi. 8, figs. 32, 33; Rep. Voy. Challenger, Zoology, vol. 9, 1884, p. 587, pi. 76, 

 figs. 22-28. — Egger, Abh. kon. bay. Akad. Wiss. Miinchen, CI. n, vol. 18, 

 1893, p. 310, pi. 9, fig. 62.— De Amicis, Naturalista Siciliano, ann. 14, 1895, 

 p. 112, pi. 1, fig. 14. — Chapman, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1895, p. 36; Journ. 

 Roy. Micr. Soc. 1896, p. 582, pi. 12, figs. 3-6. — Jones and Chapman, Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. Zool., vol. 26, 1897, p. 340, figs. 5-22.— Egger, Abh. kon. bay. 

 Acad. Wiss. Miinchen, CI. n, vol. 21, 1899, p. 135, pi. 2, fig. 2, pi. 22, fig. 33.— 

 Flint, Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1897 (1899), p. 321, pi. 68, fig. 6.— Millett, 

 Journ. Roy. Micr. Soc. 1903, p. 274. — Benham, Trans. New Zealand Inst., 

 vol. 37, 1904 (1905), p. 300.— Chapman, Trans. New Zealand Inst., vol. 38, 

 1905 (1906), p. 99. 



Description. — Test free, branching, composed of nearly globular 

 chambers connected by stolon-like tubes; wall hyaline, usually hispid; 

 apertures tubular, often several to a single chamber. 



Length up to nearly 2 mm. 



Distribution. — Brady records the species from a single Challenger 

 station off the Philippines in 95 fathoms. I have had specimens from 

 Albatross station D4949, off Japan, in 110 fathoms. 



