42 BULLETIN 104, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Pullenia sphaeroides— material examined. 



PULLENIA QUINQUELOBA (Reuss). 



Plate 8, figs. 5-9, 11. 



Nonionina quinqueloba Reuss, Zeitschr. deutsch. geol. Ges., vol. 3, 1851, p. 

 47, pi. 5, figs. 31a, h. 



Pxdlenia quinqueloba H. B. Brady, Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinb., vol. 11, 1882, p. 

 712; Rep. Voy. Challenger, Zoology, vol. 9, 1884, p. 617, pi. 84, figs. 14, 

 15. — Balkwill and Wright, Trans. Roy. Irish Acad., vol. 28, 1885, 

 p. 348, pi. 12, figs. 29a, b.— H. B. Brady, Journ. Roy. Micr. Soc, 1887, 

 p. 917. — H. B. Brady, Parker, and Jones, Trans. Zool. Soc. London, 

 vol. 12, 1888, p. 226, pi. 43, figs. 22, 23.— Shbrborn and Chapman, 

 Journ. Roy. Micr. Soc, 1889, p. 487, pi. 11, fig. 29.— Wright, Ann. 

 Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. 4, ser. 6, 1889, p. 449. — Pearcey, Trans. Glasgow 

 Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 2, 1890, p. 178.— Wright, Proc Roy. Irish Acad., 

 ser. 3, vol. 1, 1891, p. 489. — Egger, Abh. kon. bay. Akad. Wiss. 

 Mimchen, CI. II, vol. 18, 1893, p. 373, pi. 19, figs. 28, 29.— Goes, 

 Kongl. Svensk. Vet. Akad. Handl., vol. 25, 1894, p. 87, pi. 14, fig. 

 773. — Chapman, Proc Zool. Soc London, pt. 1, 1895, p. 38. — Goes. 

 Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 29, 1896, p. 68.— Chapman, Quart. Journ, 

 Geol. Soc, vol. 54, 1898, p. 555.— Flint, Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1897 

 (1899), p. 324, pi. 70, fig. 5. — Chapman, Trans. New Zealand Inst., vol. 

 38, 1905, p. 101. — Earland, Journ. Quekett Micr. Club, ser. 2, vol. 9, 

 No. 57, 1905, p. 219. — Chapman, Journ. Quekett Micr. Club, ser. 2, 

 vol. 10, 1907, p. 133; Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool., vol. 30, 1910, p. 418.— 

 Cushman, Bull. 71, U. S. Nat. Mus., pt. 4, 1914, p. 21, pi. 13, fig. 2.— 

 Pearcey, Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinb., vol. 49, 1914, p. 1025.— Mestayer, 

 Trans. New Zealand Inst., vol. 48, 1916, p. 129. — Chapman, British 

 Antarctic E.xped., Geology, vol. 2, 1916 (1917), p. 69.— Sidebottom, 

 Journ. Roy. Micr. Soc, 1918, p. 151. — Cushman, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 vol. 56, 1919, p. 623; Bull. 100, U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 4, 1921, p. 299. 



Pullenia sphaeroides Parker and Jones (part), Philos. Trans., vol. 155, 

 1865, p. 368, pi. 17, fig. 53. 



Description. — Test close coiled, planospiral, bilaterally symmetri- 

 cal, biconvex, the last-formed coil usually consisting of five chambers, 

 varying between four and six; peripheral edge broadly rounded; sur- 

 face smooth, shining, the chambers very slightly inflated; sutures 

 correspondingly depressed; aperture an elongate, narrow semicircular 

 slit between the base of the last-formed chamber and the previous 

 volution. 



