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BULLETIN 104, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



fathoms (1,483 meters), off the southeast coast of Brazil. Most of 

 the specimens in Fhnt's figure belong to this species. One of his 

 records for T. concava is from the type station. 



Textularia subplana — Material examined. 



TEXTULARIA FOLIACEA Heron-Allen and Earland, var. OCCroENTALIS, new variety. 



Plate 2, fig. 13. 



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

 p. 283. 



Description. — Variety differing from the typical form of the 

 species in being broader, less tapering, the apical end less acute. 



Distribution. — Type-specimen (U.S.N.M. No. 16991) from Alba- 

 tross station D2318, off the coast of Cuba, in 45 fathoms (82 

 meters). It has occurred often abundantly at stations in this general 

 region, off the coast of Florida, and the northern part of the Gulf of 

 Mexico, and northeastward along the coast of the United States as 

 far as Chesapeake Bay. It has not been found at all in the collection 

 from the Caribbean. 



This is very close to the species described by Heron-Allen and 

 Earland from the Kerimba Archipelago, off the southeastern coast 

 of Africa. The typical form of the species also occurs in the Philip- 

 pines. This broader form of the species is the same as that recorded 

 by Flint under the name T. concava, from off Carysfort Light, 

 Albatross station D2641, as his original sHde shows. 



Textularia foliacea, var. ocddentalis — material examined. 



