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species occur in the region southward from Cape Hatteras, the Gulf 

 of Mexico, and the Caribbean in comparatively shallow water. These 

 fit well the description given by d'Orbigny. I have had it also from 

 the coast of Jamaica. It has been customary for authors to place 

 under this name most any form of elongate tapering Textularia, 

 but from an examination of material from the West Indian region, 

 it seems here to have a definite distribution and well defined char- 

 acters. Its southward distribution reaches at least to southeastern 

 Brazil, near Pernambuco, where it is recorded by Brady and Flint, 

 and from which region I have Albatross material. 



Textularia agglutinans — material examined. 



TEXTULARIA CANDEIANA d'Orbigny. 



Plate 1, figs. 1-3. 



Texularia candeiana d'Orbigny, in De la Sagra, Hist. Fis. Pol. Nat. Cuba, 1839, 

 "Foraminif feres," p. 143, pi. 1, figs. 25-27. — Fornasini, Mem. Accad. Sci., 

 Bologna, ser. 5, vol. 10, 1903, p. 137, pi. 0, fig. 8.— Chapman, Rep. For. Sub- 

 antarctic Ids., New Zealand, 1909, p. 329.— Cushman, Bull. 71, U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., pt. 2, 1911, p. 12, figs. 14-17 (in text); Publ. 291, Carnegie Inst. Wash- 

 ington, 1919, p. 32; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 59, 1921, p. 50, pi. 11, figs. 7, 8; 

 Bull. 100, U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 4, 1921, p. 109; Publ. 311, Carnegie Inst. 

 Wash., 1922, p. 23, pi. 2, fig. 2. 



Texularia sagittula Defrance, var. candeiana Millett, Journ. Roy. Micr. Soc, 

 1899, p. 562, pi. 7, fig. 2. 



Description. — Test elongate, club-shaped, the early portion narrow, 

 much compressed, the edges almost carinate, slightly tapering to 

 the round-pointed apex, the later chambers enlarging rapidly, much 

 inflated; chambers numerous; wall rather coarsely arenaceous; aper- 

 ture in a broad but shallow sinus at the base of the inner margin of 

 the chamber; color dark gray. 



Length about 1 mm.; microspheric proloculum about 0.015 mm., 

 megalospheric proloculum about 0.050 mm. 



