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specimens is from .17-.30 mm., and their average breadth .07-. 10 mm. 

 It is possible that these minute individuals may represent the 

 mircospheric form, but owing to the difRculty of observing the 

 primordial chambers in this species, we are unable to make any 

 pronouncement of this point." Off the New England coast in Casco 

 Bay a small species occurs which fits rather well this description, 

 and which may be known as variety advena, new variety. This 

 may prove to be a different species as it is not usual for the micro- 

 spheric form to have a smaller adult test than the megalospheric. 



Verneuilina scabra — material examined. 



VERNEUILINA PROPINQUA H. B. Brady. 



Plate 9, figs. 10, 11. 



Verneuilina propinqua H. B. Brady, Rep. Voy. Challenger, Zoology, vol. 9, 

 1884, p. 387, pi. 47, figs. 8-12 (not 13, 14).— Pearcey, Trans. Nat. Hist. 

 Soc. Glasgow, vol. 2, 1890, p. 176. — Pigaglia, Atti. Soc. Modena, ser. 3, 

 vol. 12, 1893, p. 155.— Goes, Kongl. Svensk. Vet. Akad. Handl., vol. 25, 

 No. 9, 1894, p. 33, pi. 7, figs. 264-266.— Chapman, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 1895, p. 19.— Goes, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 29, 1896, p. 38.— Flint, 

 Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1897 (1899), p. 285, pi. 31, fig. 2.— Chapman, Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. London, vol. 30, 1910, p. 402.— Cushman, Bull. 71. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., pt. 2, 1911, p. 53, figs. 86a, b (in text); Bull. 100, U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 vol. 4, 1921, p. 140. 



Description. — Test free, pyramidal, triserial, the apical end 

 bluntly rounded; chambers well inflated but closely set; wall 

 coarsely arenaceous, the surface somewhat rough or nearly smooth; 

 aperture elongate at 'the base of the inner margin of the chamber; 

 color brown, or gray. 



Length up to 3.6 mm. 



Distribution. — This species described by Brady from the Chal- 

 lenger material was recorded from five stations in the North Atlantic, 

 one station in 100 fathoms (183 meters), and the others in 1,000 to 

 2,435 fathoms (1,829 to 4,415 meters), and at one station in the 

 South Atlantic in 1,900 fathoms (3,475 meters). On the European 

 side of the Atlantic it occurs in the warm area of the Faroe Channel 

 (Pearcey), and in the Atlantic 1,750 meters (955 fathoms) (Goes). 

 From the western Atlantic Goes records it from the Caribbean in 196 



