FORAMINIFEEA OF THE ATLANTIC OCEAN. 69 



VERNEUILINA BRADYI Cushman. 



Plate 11, fig. 1. 



Verneuilina pygmaea H. B. Brady, Rep. Voy. Challenger, Zoology, vol. 9, 1884, 

 p. 385, pi. 47, figa. 4-7 (not Bulimina pygmaea Egger).— WnioiiT, Ann. Mag. 

 Nat. Hist., ser. 6, vol. 4, 1889, p. 448; Proc. Roy. Irish Acad., ser. 3, vol. 1, 

 1891, p. 472.— Pearcey, Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasgow, vol. 2, 1890, p. 176.— 

 Chapman, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1895, p. 19. — Flint, Rep. U. S. Nat. Mue., 

 1897 (1899), p. 285, pi. 31, fig. 1.— Chapman, Joum. Linn. Soc. London, 

 vol. 30, 1910, p. 402. — Awerinzew, Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersburg, 

 ser. 8, vol. 29, no. 3, 1911, p. 17. — Heron-Allen and Earland, Proc. Roy. 

 Irish Acad., a^oI. 31, pt. 64, 1913, p. 55, pi. 4, fig. 10. — Sidebottom, Joum. 

 Roy. Micr. Soc, 1918, p. 21. 



Verneuilina propinqua Goiis, Bull. Mue. Comp. Zool., vol. 29, 1896, p. 38 (part). 



Verneuilina hradyi Cushman, Bull. 71, U. S. Nat. Mus., pt. 2, 1911, p. 54, figs. 

 87a, 6.— Pearcey, Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh, vol. 49, 1914, p. 1013.— 

 Cushman, Bull. 100, U. S. Nat. Mus., vol 4, 1921, p. 141, pi. 27, fig. 4. 



Description. — Test pyramidal, the triserial chambers inflated, the 

 wall finely arenaceous; about five visible chambers in each vertical 

 series; surface smooth, but not usually polished; aperture an elongate 

 slit near the base of the inner margin of the chamber, occasionally 

 with a thickened lip; color light gray. 



Length 0.60-1.50 mm. 



Distribution. — This is a species which seems to be characteristic of 

 Gflohigerina-ooze. It is very widely distributed in the deeper water 

 of all the oceans under such conditions. About the British Isles it 

 is found only in deep water, Wright's records being southwest of 

 Ireland, 750 to 1,020 fathoms (1,370 to 1,866 meters). Heron-Allen 

 and Earland record a single specimen from the Clare Island region. 

 Pearcy records it from the Faroe Channel. The Challenger records 

 include fourteen stations in the northern Atlantic, ranging in depth 

 from 420 to 2,750 fathoms (768 to 5,030 meters), and six in the South 

 Atlantic, 675 to 2,475 fathoms (1,234 to 4,527 meters). In the 

 western Atlantic Flint records the species from the Gulf of Mexico in 

 347 and 1,181 fathoms (635 and 2,160 meters). I have had the 

 species from a considerable number of stations in the Albatross 

 collections, most of them off the northeastern coast of the United 

 States, but others scattered off the southeastern coast of the United 

 States, in the Gulf of Mexico, and in the Caribbean Sea. Awerinzew 

 records this from the Arctic, Pearcey from the Antarctic, and it is 

 also recorded in both the North and South Pacific, mostly in deep 

 water. 



Verneuilinu hradyi should be used for this recent species instead 

 of V. pygmaea Egger, as has already been shown in a previous paper 

 (Bull. 71, pt. 2, p. 55). 



