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BULLETIN 104, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



D'Orbigiiy described this species from the Canaries. It is widely 

 distributed in cold waters. Some of the Atlantic records are as follows : 

 Shetland Islands (80 fathoms, very rare); off Nova Zembla, Franz- 

 Joseph Land and Spitzbergen, Smith Sound, as far north as latitude 

 82° 33' N.; off the British Isles, 64-155 fathoms and sparingly on the 

 British and French coasts (Brady); off coast of Dublin (Balkwill and 

 Wright); Liverpool Bay (Siddall); Jersey (Halkyard); off South- 

 port, England (Chaster); off Southwest Ireland and shore sands of 

 Dogs Bay, Ireland (Wright); Harlem River, N. Y. (Woodward); 

 Spitzbergen and coast of Norway (Goes); Bognor, Sussex, England 

 (Earland); Norway and between Norway and Greenland (Kiaer); 

 off Galway (MUlett); Clare Island region, Ireland and west of Scot- 

 land (Heron-Allen and Earland); Hudson Bay (Cushman). 



In the Pleistocene of Ireland (Wright), and near Portland, Me. 

 (Morton), it appears. There are other fossil records not so well 

 defined, and a few records for its occurrence in the Mediterranean 

 and the Pacific but specimens are not typical. 



There is a Pacific form similar to that figured by Brady (pi. 109^ 

 fig. 5), which has fewer, higher and more inflated chambers. The 

 specimens figured by Heron-Allen and Earland from west of Scot- 

 land are composed of fewer chambers than in the typical form. 



A few of the records of N. asterizans (Fichtel and Moll) may be 

 J)f, steUigerum, but the originals must be seen to determine this. 



Nonion atelligerum — Material examined 



> Meters. 



NONION GERMANICUM (Ehrenberg) 



Plate 3, figures 4, 5 



Nonionina germanica Ehrenberg, Abhandl. k. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1839, p. 



133, pi. 2, figs. 1 a-g; in Taylor's Scientific Mem., vol. 3, 1843, p. 357, 



pi. 6, figs. 1 a-g. 

 Nonionina crassula Williamson (not Walker and Jacob), Rec. Foram. Gt. 



Britain, 1858, p. 33, pi. 3, figs. 70, 71. 



Test close coiled, completely involute, planispiral, bilaterally 

 symmetrical, periphery rounded; about nine chambers in the last- 

 formed coil, distinct, of uniform size and shape; sutures very slightly 

 if at all depressed, slightly limbate and thickened toward the umbilical 



