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Tliis differs from other species of the genus in the peculiar form 



and especially the peculiar terminal aperture somewhat like that in 



Bifarina. 



Virgulina advena — material examined. 



VIRGULINA PAUCILOCULATA H, B. Brady. 



Virgulina pauciloculata H. B. Brady, Rep. Voy. Challenger, Zoology, vol. 9, 

 1884, p. 414. pi. 52, figs. 4, 5.— Pearcey, Traua. Roy. Sec. Edinburgh, vol. 

 49, 1914, p. 1015.— CusHMAN, Bull. 100, U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 4, 1921, p. 168. 



Description. — -''Test elongate, oval or subc^dindrical, somewhat 

 compressed, tapering slightly; ends rounded, aboral extremit}- mu- 

 cronate. vSegments few in number, long, erect, but little inflated, 

 irregularl}' arranged. Aperture a curved loop, situated on the inner 

 face of the final chamber. 



Length, l/60th inch (0.42 mm.)." 



Distribution. — All the Challenger records for this species were from 

 off New Guinea or near-by, as follows: Humboldt Bay, north coast 

 of New Guinea, 37 and 28 fathoms (68 and 51 meters) ; Torres Strait, 

 3 to 11 fathoms (5 to 20 meters), and off the Ki Islands, 129 fath- 

 oms (236 meters) . With this as the known distribution it is surpris- 

 ing to find the record given by Pearcey from the South Atlantic, 

 Scotia station 459, in 1,998 fathoms (3,654 meters), latitude 41° 30' 

 S., longitude 9° 55' W. This is, however, the distribution that some 

 of the other Pacific species show, coming into the South Atlantic 

 only. 



Egger ^^ records this species from several Gazelle stations, between 

 Madeira and the Cape Verde Islands, the west coast of Africa, and 

 off West Australia. The figures given by Egger are, however, not 

 at all convincing as to the identity of his specimens with Brady's 

 species, as they show two or three distinct things, and these rather 

 obscurely. 



VIRGULINA OBSCURA Goes. 



Virgulina obscura GoE.s, Kongl. Sveiisk. Vet. Akail. Ilandl., vol. 25, No. 9, 1894, 

 p. 48, pi. 9, figs. 457, 458. 



This species of Goes from the coast of Norway and the North Sea 

 can not be clearly identified. Goes's figures are very small. He 

 includes in his synonymy Virgulina texturata H. B. Brady, which, as 

 Brady's description is 10 years earlier, can hardly be pushed aside 

 for this later name. The two do not seem at all alike. For present 

 purposes it seems that V. obscura Goes should be pushed aside unless 



M Abh. bay. Akad. Wiss. Miinchen, Cl. II, vol. 18, 1893, p. 292, pi. 8, figs. 86-88, 94. 

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