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Island region ofT western Ireland and from 5 stations off the west 

 coast of Scotland. It is known from other stations in the same 

 general region. 



Millett records and figures a very slender specimen from the Malay 

 Archipelago imder this name, but it seems much more slender and 

 as far as the figure shows has a difTerent structure of the wall, but 

 is recorded as flexible. 



A single specimen from station D2003, latitude 37° 16' 30" N. ; 

 longitude 74° 20' 36" W., in 641 fathoms (1,172 meters), is composed 

 largely of mica plates, but has not the other characters of this species. 



REOPHAX DISTANS H. B. Brady. 



Plate 3, figs. 5, 6. 



Reophax distans H. B. Brady, Quart. Journ. Micr. Sci., .'■ol. 21, 1881, p. 50; Rep. 

 Voy. Challencjer, Zoology, vol. 9, 1884, p. 296, pi. 81, figs. 18-22.— Chapman, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1895, p. 15. — Goes, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zoo!., vol. 

 29, 1896, p. 27.— CusHMAN, Bull. 71, U. S. Nat. Mus., pt. 1, 1910, p. 85, fig. 

 119.— Pearcey, Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh, vol. 49, 1914, p. 1007. 



DescHption. — Test composed of a few elongate fusiform chambers 

 with slender connecting tubular necks in a straight or irregular line; 

 usually not more than three found attached; wall of sand grains 

 neatly cemented, thin, color reddish brown or gray; apertural end 

 with a tubular neck ; aperture circular. 



Length of three chambered specimens 5 mm. 



Distribution. — The records show that this species is largel}^ con- 

 fined to deep cold waters. In such situations it is very widely 

 distributed but never very common. 



In the Atlantic Brady records it from the Faroe Channel, 355 

 fathoms (649 meters); off the west coast of Africa in 1,750 fathoms 

 (3,200 meters) and off Buenos Aires in 1,900 fathoms (3,475 meters). 

 Pearce}^ records it from Scotia station 459, latitude 41° 30' S. ; longitude 

 9° 55' W., in 1,998 fathoms (3,654 meters). Neither Goes nor Flmt 

 recorded it in the Atlantic material of the Albatross. The only 

 stations from which I have had it are given below, all between 37° 

 and 40° N". latitude and between 68° and 72° W. longitude in deep 

 cold water. Enough specimens were- found at each of these stations 

 to show that its absence elsewhere was not due to cursory exam- 

 ination. 



Outside the Atlantic it has been noted in the North and South 

 Pacific and in the Southern Ocean south of Africa and south of 

 Australia. Chapman records it from the Arabian Sea. 



It is a very well defined species but is not found whole as the 

 slender stolon-like connections form a point of weakness causing 

 breakage under a shght strain. Two varieties with different dis- 

 tribution are given below. 



