78 FORAMINIFERA 



Genus PELOSINA H. B. Brady, 1879 



Plate 4, figures 19-24 

 Genotype, by designation, Pelosina variabilis H. B. Brady 

 Pelosina H. B. Brady, Quart. Journ. Micr. Sci., vol. 19, 1879, p. 30. 



Test free, variously formed, rounded, cylindrical or irregularly 

 elongate ; wall usually thick, composed of mud on a thin chitinous 

 inner layer often extending out and forming the whole wall at 

 the apertural end; aperture typically single and terminal, oc- 

 casionally multiple. 



Carboniferous ( ?) to Recent. Typically in deep or cold 

 waters, in shallow water in Hudson Bay. 



Genus TECHNITELLA Norman, 1878 



Plate 5, figures 1, 2, 17 



Genotype, by designation, Technitella legumen Norman 



Technitella Norman, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 5, vol. 1, 1878, p. 279. 



Test free, composed of a single, simple, elongate, subcyl- 

 indrical, fusiform or oval chamber; wall thin, composed of 

 sponge spicules and fine sand ; aperture rounded, at the open 

 end of the test. 



Recent. Typically in cold or deep water. 



In T. legumen the outer layer is composed of spicules arranged 

 lengthwise of the test and the inner layer at right angles forming 

 a rigid test. 



Genus PILULINA W. B. Carpenter, 1870 



Plate 5, figures 3, 4 



Genoholotype, Pilulina jeffreysii W. B. Carpenter 



Pihdiua W. B. Carpenter, Desc. Cat. Objects Deep Sea Dredging, 1870, 

 p. 5. 



Test free, globular or ovate, consisting of a single, undivided 

 chamber; wall composed of felted sponge spicules and a slight 

 a,mount of fine sand with a minimum of cement ; aperture narrow, 

 elongate, in a somewhat depressed area, or occasionally with a 

 slightly raised lip. 



Recent. Two species are known, one in the North Atlantic, 

 and the other in the North Pacific in comparatively deep cold 

 water. 



