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Hormosina globulifera — material examined — Continued. 



HORMOSINA OVICULA H. B. Brady. 



Plate 6, fig. 2. 



Hormosina ovicula II. B. Brady, Quart. Journ. Micr. Sci., vol. 19, 1879, p. 61^ 

 pi. 4, fig. 6. — -BiJTscHLi, in Bronn, Klassen und Ordnungen des Thierreichs, 

 vol. 1, 1880, p. 199, pi. 5, fig. 15.— H. B. Brady, Rep. Voy. Challenger^ 

 Zoology, vol. 9, 1884, p. 327, pi. 39, figs. 7-9.— Goes, Kongl. Svensk. Vet. 

 Akad. Handl., vol. 25, No. 9, 1894, p. 29, pi. 6, figs. 220, 221.— Chapman, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1895, p. 17.— Flint, Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1897 

 (1899), p. 280, pi. 25, fig. 2.— Chapman, The Foraminifera, 1902, p. 149, 

 pi. 8, fig. C— Cushman, Bull. 71, U. S. Nat. Mus., pt. 1, 1910, p. 95, fig. 

 138a, b. 



Hormosina ovicula, var., Goes, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 29, 1896, p. 34, pi. 4, 

 fig. 1-3. 



Description. — Test long and slender, slightly tapering, composed 

 of several fusiform chambers in a straight or slightly curved line, the 

 base of one chamber inclosing only the end of the apertural neck 

 of the preceding; wall thin, finely arenaceous, with abundant cement, 

 often with a thin granular coating of light gray amorphous material 

 and occasionally a few sponge spicules; aperture small, circular, at 

 the end of a short, cylindrical neck, often with a short phialine lip; 

 color yellowish brown with a distinctly darker reddish brown por- 

 tion at the distal end of the neck of each chamber. 



Length up to 4 mm. 



