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The species has undoubtedly been confused with Trocliammina 

 glohigeriniformis in many earher records. The original specimens 

 were from the Mediterranean. It is recorded from the Tertiary of 

 Australia (Chapman) and as a recent species from off Funafuti 

 (Chapman) and in the North Pacific (Cushman). 



Ammosphaeroidina sphaeroidimformis — material examined. 



Subfamily Neusininae. 



Genus BOTELLINA W. B. Carpenter, 1869. 



Botellina W. B. Carpenter, Proc. Roy. Soc. London, vol. 18, 1869, p. 444. 

 (Type, B. labyrinthica, H. B. Brady). — Butschm, in Bronn, Klassen und 

 OrdnuDgen Thierreichs, vol. 1, 1880, p. 193.— H. B. Brady, Rep. Voy. 

 ChaUcjiger, Zoology, vol. 9, 1884, p. 279. — Rhumbler, Arch. Prot., vol. 3, 

 1903. p. 261.— Pearpey, Trans. South African Philos. Soc, vol. 17, pt. 2, 

 1908, p. 188. 



Description. — For the generic description, see under B. laby- 

 rinthica which immediately follows. 



BOTELLINA LABYRINTHICA H. B. Brady. 



Plate 18, figs. 1-4. 

 Botellina, species, W. B, Carpenter, Proc. Toy. Soc. London, vol. 18, 1869, p. 444. 

 Bojellina lalyrinthuv H. B. Brady, Quart. Journ. Micr. Sci., vol. 21, 1881, p. 48, 



Rep. Voy. Challenger, Zoology, vol. 9, 1884, p. 279, pi. 29, figs. 8-18.— Goes; 



Kongl. Svensk. Vet. Akad. Handl., vol. 25, No. 9, 1894, p. 19, pi. 4, figs. 



69-86. — ScHAUDiNN, BergensMus. Aarhog, 1894-95, No. 9, p. 5. — Chapman, 



The Foraminifera. 1902, p. 128, pi. 6, fig. L— Ehumbler. Arch. Prot., vol. 3. 



1903, p. 261, fig. 103 (in text). — Heron-Allen and Earland, Trans. Linn. 



Soc. London, vol. 11, pt. 13, 191G, p. 221. 



Description. — "Test arenaceous, cylindrical, straight or slightly 

 curved, somewhat irregular in outline, one end rounded and more or 

 less swollen (the natural condition of the other end not certainly 

 known) ; walls of the test of fum consistence, rough, without external 

 fine cement, subdivided irregularly by a labyrinth of sand grains 

 cemented together at various angles forming rude chamberlets 

 which open out into a main tube or chamber, which runs through 

 nearly the whole test. 



Incomplete specimens only known." 



