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Island, West Indies, depth 390 fathoms; but the species occurs also 

 at station 33, off Bermuda, 435 fathoms, and at two points in the 

 Eastern Archipelag;©, namely Nares Harbour, Admiralty Islands, 17 

 fathoms, and off Raine Island, Torres Strait, 155 fathoms." I have 

 had excellent specimens dredged by the Hassler expedition in 100 

 fathoms off the Barbados. 



Specimens very similar to the West Indian species occur in various 

 parts of the Pacific, but whether or not they are the same needs 

 further study. 



There are numerous fossil records referred to this species, but these 

 again should be carefully compared with living West Indian material. 



CARPENTERIA MONTICULARIS Carter 



Brady records this species from a Challenger station off Bermuda, 

 435 fathoms, and Egger records it from off West Africa. I have not 

 seen this species in the Albatross collections or others from the West 

 Indian region. It is common in some parts of the Indo-Pacific, and 

 a very similar form occurs in the Eocene of the coastal plain of the 

 United States. 



CARPENTERIA UTRICULARIS Carter 



Carter records this species as common in the West Indies, but it 

 has not occurred in the Albatross or other dredgings that I have from 

 that region. Brady records it from off Pernambuco, Brazil, in 350 

 fathoms. Egger records it from off the Cape Verde Islands and off 

 West Africa, but his figure is not very typical of this species. Most 

 of the records for the species are from the Indo-Pacific. 



CARPENTERIA HASSLERI, new species 



Plate 26, figures 2-5 



Test attached, in the early stages coiled, later in an irregular spiral, 

 the chambers in an irregular spiral about an ascending axis, the upper 

 end of the chamber prolonged into a long tubular extension, with 

 the aperture apparently at the tip; wall smooth, finely perforate. 



Height up to 10 mm. 



Holotype (Cat. No. 21931, U.S.N.M.) from 100 fathoms off 

 Barbados. 



There are numerous specimens of this peculiar species dredged by 

 the Hassler Expedition at the above locality, but I have not seen it 

 elsewhere. The peculiar extension of the chamber and the loose 

 spiral produce some very bizarre forms. 



With these is a specimen (pi. 26, fig. 6) which is close to Carpenteria 

 rhaphidodendron Moebius or to some of the specimens referred by 

 Hofker to C. utricularis Carter. 



