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BULLETIN 104, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



VERNEUILINA AFFKA Cushman. 



Plate 3, fig. 2, plate 10, fig. 4. 



Vemeuilina propinqua H. B. Brady (part), Rep. Voy. Challenger, Zoology, vol. 



9, 1884, p. 387, pi. 47, figs. 13, 14 (not figs. 8-12).— GoiJs, Bull. Mus. Comp. 



Zool., vol. 29, 1896, p. 38. 

 Vemeuilina affixa Cushman, Bull. 71, U. S. Nat. Mue., pt. 2, 1911, p. 56, figs. 90, 91 



(in text); Bull. 100, U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 4, 1921, p. 142, pi. 27, fig. 6. 



Description. — Test affixed, pyramidal, tapering to a rather acute 

 point at the apical end, triserial except at the attached end, which 

 may be biserial in the attached chambers; test usually somewhat 

 curved; wall coarsely arenaceous, but only slightly roughened on 

 the surface; aperture at the base of the inner margin of the chamber 

 in an elongated depression formed by the last-formed whorl of cham- 

 bers, rounded or somewhat elongate; color reddish-brown, except the 

 attached chambers, and the area of attachment about the chambers, 

 which are light gray. 



Length up to 4 mm. 



Distribution. — This species which was named on the basis of Alba- 

 tross specimens from the western coast of Mexico seems to be fairly 

 common in the western Atlantic. The records range from the latitude 

 of Cape Cod south with a few stations in the Gulf of Mexico, off 

 Yucatan, and off the coast of Brazil. As Brady notes, this species is 

 very different from V. propinqua H. B. Brady, is more tapering, higher, 

 and very often bent toward the tip, the aperture is larger in a rather 

 deep reentrant at the end; and toward the end it often becomes biserial. 

 Adult specimens are usually gray near the end, showing their base 

 of attachment. 



Vemeuilina affixa — material examined. 



Cat. 

 No. 



Station. 



Locality. 



Depth 



in 

 fath- 

 .oms. 



Bot- 

 tom 

 tem- 

 pera- 

 ture. 



Character of 

 bottom. 



Abundance 



17046 



17047 

 17048 

 17049 

 17050 

 17051 

 17052 

 17053 

 17054 

 17055 

 17056 

 17057 

 17058 

 17059 

 17060 

 17061 

 17062 

 17063 

 17064 

 17065 

 17066 

 17067 



D2035.. 

 D2037.. 

 D2041 . . 

 D20i2.. 

 D2043.. 

 D2096.. 

 D2105.. 

 D2110.. 

 D2208.. 

 D2219.. 

 D2221.. 

 D2394.. 

 D2355.. 

 D2381.. 

 D2383.. 

 D2385.. 

 D2399.. 

 D2562.. 

 D2572.. 

 D2682.. 

 D2706.. 

 D2760.. 



39 26 



38 53 



39 22 

 39 33 

 39 49 

 39 22 

 37 50 

 35 12 

 39 33 



; 39 46 

 I 39 05 

 I 28 38 

 I 20 56 

 : 28 05 

 28 32 

 ! 28 51 

 1 20 44 



39 15 



40 29 

 39 38 



41 28 

 12 07 



16 N. 

 00 N. 

 SON. 

 00 N. 

 00 N. 

 20 N, 

 00 N. 

 ION, 

 00 N. 

 22 N, 

 30 N, 

 SON, 

 48 N, 

 00 N, 

 00 N 

 00 N, 

 00 N 

 30 N, 

 00 N, 

 00 N, 

 SON, 

 00 S 



70 02 37. W. 



69 23 SOW. 

 68 25 00 W. 

 68 26 45 W. 



68 28 SOW. 



70 52 20 W. 



73 03 50 W. 



74 57 15 W. 



71 16 15 W. 



69 29 00 W. 



70 44 SOW. 

 87 02 00 W. 



86 27 00 W. 



87 50 15 W. 



88 06 00 W. 

 88 18 00 W. 

 86 18 00 W. 



71 25 cow. 

 66 04 00 W. 

 70 22 00 W. 

 65 35 30 W. 

 37 17 00 W. 



1,362 

 1,731 

 1,608 

 1,555 

 1,467 

 1,451 

 1,395 



516 

 1,178 



948 

 1,525 



420 



399 

 1,330 

 1,181 



730 



196 

 1,434 

 1,769 



990 

 1,188 

 1,019 



'F. 



38.0 

 38.0 

 38.5 

 38.5 

 37.5 

 41.0 

 40.0 

 38.4 

 SS.8 

 36.9 

 41.8 



39.6 

 40.1 

 51.6 

 37.3 



37.8 



glob, oz 



glob, oz 



glob, oz 



glob, oz 



glob, oz 



glob, oz 



glob, oz 



bu. m 



gn. m 



gy-m 



gy.oz 



gn. m 



yl.oz 



It. br. m — 

 br. gn. m... 



gy-m 



gy-m 



gy. oz 



gy-oz 



gn. m 



gy. oz. for., 

 br. CO 



Rare. 



Rare. 



Few. 



Rare. 



Few. 



Rare. 



Rare. 



Rare. 



Rare. 



Rare. 



Few. 



Rare. 



Rare. 



Rare. 



Common. 



Common. 



Rare. 



Rare. 



Rare. 



Few. 



Few. 



Rare. 



