14 BITLLETIN 104, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



TEXTULARU FLINTII Cushman. var. CURTA, new variety. 



Plate 2, figs. 2, 3. 



Textularia aggluiinans Flint (part~), Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1897 (1899), p. 284, 



pi. 29, fig. 4 (part) [not T. agfjlutinans d'Orbigny]. 

 Textularia rugosa Bago, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 34, 1908, p. 131 [not T. rugosa 



(Reuss)]. 

 Textularia fiinlii Cushman, Bull. 71, U. S. Nat. Mus., pt. 2, 1911, p. 21, figs. 3fia, 



6 (in text). 



Distribution. — Type-specimen (U.S.N.M. No. 17003) from Albatross 

 station D2144, in 896 fathoms (1,639 meters), in the Caribbean. 

 This species was originally referred by Flint to T. agglutinans, but, 

 as has been previously pointed out, the two are very different. The 

 Atlantic material shows this species only in the Caribbean, one station 

 westward of the Windward Islands, the other three along the coast of 

 Yucatan to Panama. There is very little variation in the specimens 

 of this variety, but it differs from the Pacific specimens in having a 

 more acute periphery and a broader shorter form. 



Textularia Jliniii, var. curta — material examined. 



TEXTULARIA ALBATROSSI, new species. 



Plate 2, figs. 5, 6. 



Textularia concava Flint (part) (not Karrer), Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1897 (1899), 

 p. 283. 



Description. — Test elongate, much tapering, apical end bluntly 

 pointed, apertural end broadly angled, in the later portion the 

 breadth nearly equal to the thickness, concave at each side in the 

 middle, periphery convex; chambers distinct, the last ones much 

 inflated, low and broad, each with a reentrant portion near the central 

 part at each side; sutures distinct, depressed, wall coarsely arenaceous, 

 rather smoothly finished, especially in the later portion; aperture a 

 long, narrow slit above the base of the chamber, with a slight lip; 

 color gray. 



Length up to 1.75 mm.. 



Distribution. — Type-specimen (U.S.N.M. No. 17040) irom. Albatross 

 station D2150, in 382 fathoms (697 meters), in the western part of 

 the Caribbean Sea. Other specimens of this species occurred at this 

 station, but it is not found elsewhere in the western Atlantic. An 



