FORAMINIFERA OF THE ATLANTIC OCEAN. 

 Virgulina compressa — material examined. 



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VIRGULINA PUNCTATA d'Orbigny. 



Virgulina punctata d'Orbigny, in De la Sagra, Hist. Fis. Pol. Nat. Cuba, 1839, 

 "Foraminif^res," p. 139, pi. ], figs. 35, 36. — Cushman", Publ. 291, Carnegie 

 Inst. Wash., 1919, p. 35; Proo. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 59, 1920, p. 52, pi. 11, 

 fig. 15; Publ. 311, Carnegie Inst. Wash., 1922, p. 31, pi. 3, fig. 9. 



This species described by d'Orbigny from shore sands of Cuba is 

 recorded from the West Indies and is apparently widespread in 

 shallow warm waters of tliis region. The specimen I previously 

 recorded is from the north coast of Jamaica at Montego Bay. Fossil 

 specimens are from the Miocene marl from the gorge of the Yumuri 

 River, Matanzas, Cuba. 



VIRGULINA SCHREIBERSIANA Czjzek. 



Plate 2«, fig. 6. 



Virgulina schreihersiana Czjzek, Haidinger's Nat. Al)handl.. vol. 2, 1848, p. 147, 

 pi. 13, figs. 18-21.— H. P.. Brady, Rep. Voy. Challenger, Zoology, vol. 9, 

 1884, p. 414, pi. 52, fig^^. 1-3.— Goks, Kongl. Svensk. Vet. Akad. Haiidl., 

 vol. 25, No. 9, 1894, p. 48, pi. 9, fig.-^. 459, 461-472.— Cushmax, Bull. 71, 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., pt. 2, 1911, p. 94, figs. 148fl, b (in text); Bull. 100, U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., vol. 4, 1921, p. 169. 



Bulimina presli Reuss, var. {Virgulina) schreibersii (part) Parker and Jones, 

 Philos. Trans., vol. 155, 1865, p. 375, pi. 7, fig. 73 [pi. 15, fig. 18?]. 



Description. — Test elongate, slender, tapering, the initial end 

 usually with a spine; chambers fairly numerous, inflated, distinct, 

 rapidly increasing in size toward the apertural end; sutures distinct 

 and depressed; wall thin and translucent, smooth, finely perforate; 

 aperture elongate oval, fairly large for the size of the chamber. 



Length usually about 0.5 mm. 



