292 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1897. 



BOLIVINA -ffiNARIENSIS Costa. 



(Plate 37, fig. 8.) 



Elongate, flattened, tapering-, symmetrical j margins sharp and 

 smooth; apex nsually terminating in a spinous process; two or more 

 delicate perpendicular ridges extending a variable distance from the 

 apex toward the base; walls thin, transparent, minutely and profusely 

 perforated; segments very regularly arranged in two alternating 

 series; aperture loop-like at the inner margin of the last segment. 

 Length, about 0.8 mm. (tjI inch). 



Localities. — Off Cape Hatteras, Gulf of Mexico, southeast of Georges 

 Bank, south of Block Island (stations 2289, 2400, 2530, 2584), 7 to 950 

 fathoms. 



BOLIVINA PUNCTATA d'Orbigny. 

 (Plate 38, fig. 1.) 



Slender, elongate, tapering, rounded, symmetrical, slightly curved; 

 composed of a double, alternating series of segments, twelve or more 

 in each row; surface smooth and even; sutures not depressed; walls 

 thin and linely perforated; aperture ovate, oblique, on the terminal face 

 of the last segment. Length, about 0.8 mm. (yA, inch). 



Locality. — i^ot recorded. 



BOLIVINA PORRECTA Brady. 

 (Platen 38, fig. 2.) 



Straight, slightly tapering, nearly cylindrical in section ; earlier seg- 

 ments in opposite alternating rows, later segments triangular and 

 superposed, the sutures extending obliquely the whole breadth of the 

 test; w^alls very thin, transparent and finely perforated; aperture 

 large, oval, across the terminal face of the last segment. Length, 

 about 1 mm. (0-5- inch). 



Locality. — A single specimen from the North Atlantic, southeast of 

 Georges Bank (station 2530), 950 fathoms. 



Subfamily C^SSII3XJLIN'I]Sr..^E. 



Test consisting of a Textularia-like series of alternating segments, 

 more or less coiled upon itself. 



Genus CASSIDULINA. 



Test biserial, folded on its long axis, and coiled more or less com- 

 pletely on itself. 



CASSIDULINA CRASSA d'Orbigny. 

 (Plate 38, fig. 3.) 



Oval, compressed, with rounded outlines; sutural lines indistinct; 

 surface smooth; texture calcareous. Section shows the coiled cham- 

 bers of one series. Diameter, about 1 mm. (-2V inch). 



