FORAMINIFERA OF THli ATLANTIC OCEAl^r. 89 



Type species. — Botellina lahyvintliica H. B. Brady. 



The above is the generic description given by Pearcey based on 

 the type species. Pearcey obtained another species of Botellina 

 from Soiitli Africa wliich seems to show that tliis may really be a 

 many chambered genus and if so should ]>robably be placed with 

 Neusina in the subfamilj' already made for that genus. The cham- 

 berlet condition in the two is similar in certain respects. 



Lengtli of B. lahyrintliica 25 mm. or more. 



DistrihuHon. — Type locahty, Porcupine station 51, bititude 60° 6' 

 N.; longitude 8° 14' W. in 440 fathoms (805 meters), bottom tem- 

 perature 42° F. There are a few specimens in the United States 

 National Museum Xo. 6247 from this station received from Dr. W. B. 

 Carpenter. Other records are iti the same general region. The speci- 

 mens nguied by Goes under this name are not this species or at least 

 do not sJiow the full characters. Schaudinn records the species from 

 Bergen, Norway, Init figures no specimens. Pearcey notes the fol- 

 lowing recoids — "It was again met witJi by the Naturalists of the 

 Knie/ht Errant and Triton expeditions in 1880 and 1882, but always 

 in a fragmentar ycondition in the same areas [as the type station, 

 Faroe Channel] at a deptli of 516 fathoms (944 meters) in th(^ warm 

 area, and in 580 fathoms (1,061 meters) in tlie cold area with a bottom 

 temperature 46.5° and 31° F. (8 and —0.5° C), respectively. It 

 would thus appear to be more common in the cold area, where it was 

 taken in the gi'eatest abundance, strongly indicating that it favors a 

 low temperature." 



"In 1886 Mr. Joseph Wright, F. G. S. (J. Wright, second dredging 

 cruise of the S. S. Protector, Belfast Nat. Field Club, 1886) again 

 records B. lahyrintltica a^ having been obtained in considerable 

 abundance in a dredging taken about midway between Belfast I.ough 

 and Port Patrick, at a depth of 100 fathoms (183 meters) and again 

 in September, 1902 * (from washings of dredged material from Rathlin 

 Sound, Church Bay, in 17-24 fathoms (31-44 meters), but he makes 

 no mention of the temperature of the water." 



Heron-Allen and Earland obtained fragments of this species at 

 two Runa stations off the west of Scotland in 30 and 60 fathoms 

 (55 and 110 meters). 



J J. Wright, Foraminifera from Rathliu Island, Iiisli Nnt., vol. 11, pp. 210-213. 



