10 BULLETIN 104, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



TEXTULARIA GLOBULOSA Ehrenberg. 



This species is recorded as recent off the Irish coast by Balkwill 

 and Wright *, by Brady ^, and by Wright." Heron-Allen and Earland 

 do not record it as recent in their various papers from the British 

 coast. 



TEXTULARIA GRAMEN d'Orbigny. 



An examination of the figured specimens referred to this species 

 by numerous authors and a comparison of these with the original 

 figures of T. gramen given by d'Orbigny in his Vienna Basin Memoire 

 shows how many different forms are placed under this name and 

 how different most of them are from d'Orbigny's original type. 



There is almost nothing in the western Atlantic material that can 

 well be referred to this species. On the coasts of Europe specimens 

 occur which show a broad, short form which, from an examina- 

 tion of the records, seems at least by some authors to have been re- 

 ferred to this species. I have had specimens from European material 

 which may belong to this species, and which are different from any of 

 the specimens of the western Atlantic. 



TEXTULARIA LUCULENTA H. B. Brady. 



Plate 1, figs. 7-9. 



Textularia luculenta H. B. Brady, Rep. Voy. Challenger, Zoology, vol. 9, 1884, 

 p. 364, pi. 43, figs. 5-8.— Goes, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 29, 1896, p. 42.— 

 Flint, Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1897 (1899), p. 284, pi. 29, fig. 3. 



Description. — -Test elongate, tapering, compressed, peripheral mar- 

 gin in the early portion angular, the later portion rounded, biserial, 

 but toward the end the chambers tending to become uniserial, sides 

 in the last half nearly parallel; chambers distinct, somewhat inflated, 

 increasing in height toward the apertural end; sutures fairly distinct, 

 very slightly compressed, wall finely arenaceous, rather smoothly 

 finished, thick; aperture in the early portion as in Textularia, and in 

 the last-formed chambers becoming nearly terminal, rounded; color 

 light gray. 



Length up to 2.5 mm. 



Distribution. — Brady's original localities for this species are as fol- 

 lows : Off Sombrero Island, 450 fathoms (823 meters) ; off Culebra 

 Island, 390 fathoms (713 meters); off Bermuda, 435 fathoms (796 

 meters), and off the coast of Brazil, south of Pernambuco, 350 and 

 675 fathoms (640 and 1,234 meters). Goes had the species from 

 Albatross station D2150 in the western Caribbean. Flint records it 

 from this same station, and from two others, D2315 m 37 fathoms 

 (68 meters), off the coast of Cuba, and D2355, off Yucatan. I have 



* Proc. Roy. Irish Acad., ser. 2, vol. 3, 1882; Trans. Roy. Irish Acad., vol. 28, 1885, pp. 332, 447. 

 » Journ. Roy. Micr. Soc, 1887, p. 895. 



• Proc. Roy. Irish Acad., ser. 3, vol. 1, 1891, p. 471. 



