164 FORAMINIFERA 



Subfamily 2. Nodobaculariinae 



Early portion as in Cornuspira, followed by chambers in a 

 rectilinear series. 



Genus NODOBACULARIA Rhumbler, 1895 



Plate 20, figure 5; plate 21, figure 3 

 Genoholotype, Nubecularia tibia Jones and Parker 



Nodohacularia Rhumbler, Nachr. Ges. Wiss. Gottingen, 1895, p. 87. 

 Nubecularia (part) Jones and Parker (not Defrance), Quart. Journ. 

 Geol. Soc, vol. 16, 1860, p. 455. 



Test with a globular proloculum followed by a planispiral 

 tubular second chamber, the adult chambers in a rectilinear 

 series ; aperture simple, with a lip. 



Lias to Recent. 



Genus CORNUSPIRAMIA Cushman, 1928 

 Plate 55, figures 1, 2 



Genoholotype, Nubecularia antillaruvi Cushman 



Cornuspiramia CusHMAN, Contr. Cushman Lab. Foram. Res., vol. 4, 1928, 

 p. 4. 



Nubecularia Cushman (not Defrance), Publ. 311, Carnegie Inst. Wash- 

 ington, 1922, p. 58. 



Test attached, in the early stages with a proloculum and one 

 or more coils of an undivided tubular chamber about it followed 

 by irregularly branching tubular portions with the base 

 flattened and the upper side arched ; wall calcareous, imper- 

 forate; apertures formed by the open ends of the tubes. 



Recent. Tropical, in shallow water. 



Subfamily 3. Ophthalmidiinae 



Test free, planispiral, in the later stages usually two or more 

 chambers making up a coil, later chambers variously arranged 

 in different genera. 



