352 SUBANTARCTIC ISLANDS OF NEW ZEALAND. iFomminifera. 



Genus Candeina, d'Orbigny, 1839. 

 Candeina nitida, crOrbigny. 



Candeina nitida, d'Orbigny, 1839. Foram. Cuba, p. 108, j)!. ii, figs. -27, 28. 

 C. nitida, d'Orb., Millett, 1903, Journ. R. Micr. Soc, p. 692, ])l. vii. 

 fig. 2. 

 Distribution. — Widely dispersed. 



Present Occurrence. — Twenty miles nortli of Auckland Ishmd ; 85 fathoms ; 

 very rare. Ten miles north of Rnderby Island ; 85 fatlioms ; eommon. 



Fam. R T A L I I I) A E . 

 Subfam. SPIRILLININAE. 

 Genus Spirillina, Ehrenberg, 1841. 

 Spirillina vivipara, Ehrenberg. 



Sfirillina vivipara. Ehrenberg, 1841, Abandl. k. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, p. 422, 

 pi. iii, vii, fig. 41. S. vivipara. Ehr., Flint. 1899, Rep. U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 for 1897, p. 326, pi. Ixxi, fig. 4. 

 The present examples are of moderate size, and typical. 



Distribution. — Geographically unrestricted. Both Brady and Egger record it 

 as far south as Ker^elen Island. Curiously, no examples of tlie genus Spirillina 

 have hitherto been recorded from the New Zealand area. 



Present Occurrence. — (_)fi the Snares : 60 fathoms : rare. Twenty miles north of 

 Auckland Island, 85 fathoms ; rare. Ten miles north of Enderby Island ; 85 fathoms : 

 common. 



Spirillina obconica, Brady. 



Spirillina obconica, Brady, 1879, Quart. Journ. Micr. Sci., vol. xix, n.s.. 

 p. 279, pi. viii, figs. 27 a, b. 

 The examples found are minute, and beautifully transparent. 

 Distribution. — Brady gives three localities for this species — viz., oft' Prince 

 Edward Island, Kerguelen Island, and Admiralty Islands. 

 Present Occurrence. — Oft' the Snares ; 60 fathoms ; rare. 



Spirillina novae-zealandiae, sp. nov. (Plate XVII, figs. 4 a, b, and 5.) 



Description. — Test thick ; suture more or less obscured, according to age ; 



periphery rounded, and often longitudinally lineated with secondary shell-growth ; 



surface abundantly perforated with coarse pores and surrounded with supplementary 



shell-deposit. 



Diameter of larger figured specimen, 1-36 mm. ; thickness, 0-28 mm. 



Remarhs. — This species differs from S. vivipara in the thick test, coarse pores, 



indistinct sutures, and well-rounded periphery. At first sight it might be mistaken 



for <S. tuberculata, Brady,* since the pores under certain illumination seem to appear 



* Rep. ChalL, vol. ix, 1884, p. 631, pi. lxx.xv, figs. 12-16. 



