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VraCULlNA SUBDEPRESSA H. B. Brady. 



Virgulina suhdepressa II. B. Brady, Rep. Voy. Challenger, Zoology, vol. 9, 1884, 

 p. 416, pi. 52, figs. 14-17.— Egger, Abh. kon. bay. Akad. Wiss. Munchen, CI. 

 II, vol. 18, 1893, p. 291, pi. 8, fig. 103.— Cii.^pman, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 1895, p. 23.— Goes, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 29, 1892, p. 47.— Chapman, 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool., vol. 30, 1907, p. 31, pi. 4, fig. 78; 1910, p. 403.— Cush- 

 MAN, Bull. 71, U. S. Nat. Mus., pt. 2, 1911, p. 93, figs. 147a, b (in text); Bull. 

 100, U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 4, 1921, p. 170. 



Description. — -"Test elongate, subcylindrical, more or less com- 

 pressed; oral end obtuse, rounded or subangular; aboral extremity 

 broad and rounded: margin crenulate. Segments numerous, trian- 

 gular in lateral aspect, slightly inflated: arranged in two inequilateral 

 alternating series. Aperture an o]:)lique or nearly erect loop-like 

 slit, on the inner face of the final chamber. 



Length, l/2oth inch (1 mm.)." 



Distribution. — There are three Atlantic Challenger stations for 

 this species, 35c, in 1,050 fathoms (3,566 meters), latitude 32° 15' 

 N., 65° 08' W.; 332, in 2,200 fathoms (4,000 meters), latitude 37° 

 29' S., longitude 27° 31' W.; 346, in 2,350 i^ithoms (4,298 meters), 

 latitude 2° 42' S., longitude 14° 41' W. Egger gives several records 

 from different parts of the world. Chapman's records are from the 

 Arabian Sea and off Funafuti. Goes records it from the eastern 

 tropical Pacific. I recorded it from several Pacific stations, but 

 have not had it from the western Atlantic, nor does it appear to be 

 recorded from the region of the British Isles. 



VIRGULINA TEXTURATA H. B. Brady. 



Vngulina texturata H. B. Brady, Rep. Voy Challenger, Zoology, vol 9, 1884, p. 

 415, pi. 52, figs. 6(7, ft.^EoGER, Abh. kou. bay. Akad. Wiss. Munchen, CI. II, 

 vol. 18, 1893, p. 292, pi. 8, fig. 99.— Chapman-, Journ. Linn. Soc, vol. 30, 1910, 

 p. 403. 



Description. — "Test elongate, somewhat compressed, broadest 

 near the oral end and tapering to a point at the aboral extremity; 

 oral end obtuse or rounded; margin lobulated. Segments numerous, 

 ventricose, arranged in two, inequilateral, regularly alternating 

 series. Aperture a nearly erect loop-like slit on the inner face of the 

 final segment. 



Length, l/20th inch (1.3 mm.)." 



Distrihution. — In the Challenger Report Brady described this 

 species from three localities in the South Pacific, off Juan Fernandez 

 in 1,375 and 1,825 fathoms (2,515 and 3,346 meters) and off the Ki 

 Islands in 129 fathoms (236 meters). Egger records it from a 

 Gazelle station off New Zealand in 2,769 meters (1,514 fathoms). 

 Chapman's record is off Funafuti, in 2,298 fathoms (4,203 meters). 

 There are Atlantic records in the Challenger volumes on ''Summary 

 of Results" from the following stations: 70, in 1,675 fathoms (3,063 



