ii8 DISCOVERY REPORTS 



235. Verneuilina bradyi var. nitens, Wiesner (Plate V, figs. 19-21). 

 Verneuilina bradyi var. nitens, Wiesner, 193 1, FDSE, p. 99, pi. xiii, fig. 154. 



Ten stations: 383-6; WS 204, 205, 403, 468, 469, 507 b. 



Fairly frequent at Sts. 385, 386 and WS 403, rare or very rare elsewhere. Wiesner 

 describes his variety as "broader than the type; built of greenish white quartz with a 

 few black augite grains, smooth and very polished". This description accords with the 

 Discovery specimens, except that at a few stations, 383, 386, WS 205, 507 B, a smooth 

 but dull-surfaced form is found with or without the highly polished normal variety. 

 The colour is more or less dark smoke grey and under a high power is seen to be due to 

 the varying proportion of dark mineral grains incorporated in the test. The type species, 

 V. bradyi, very seldom departs from its usual glistening white colour. There is great 

 variation in the height of the spire. Specimens are found in which the spire is so low 

 that the test is almost globular in shape. 



Wiesner has been good enough to verify the identification of the Discovery specimens, 

 which with one exception, St. WS 507 b in the Bellingshausen Sea, 580 m., are from 

 deep water in the Drake Strait between 3328 and 4773 m. Except at Sts. 383, 384 and 

 WS 205 the variety occurs in company with the type species. 



Wiesner 's specimens were from a depth of 3410 m. (65° 15' S, 80° 19' E). 



236. Verneuilina propinqua, Brady. 



Verneuilina propinqua, Brady, 1884, FC, p. 387, pi. xlvii, figs. 8-12 (only). 

 Verneuilina propinqua, Cushman, 1918, etc., FAO, 1922, p. 56, pi. ix, figs. 10, 11. 

 Verneuilina propinqua, Wiesner, 1931, FDSE, p. 99, pi. xiii, fig. 153. 



One station : WS 468. 



Only a single, rather small, specimen from 4344 m. at St. WS 468, which is outside 



the Antarctic convergence line. 



237. Verneuilina scabra (Williamson). 



Bulimina scabra, Williamson, 1858, RFGB, p. 65, pi. v, figs. 136, 137. 

 Verneuilina polystropha, Brady {non Reuss), 1884, FC, p. 386, pi. xlvii, figs. 15-17. 

 Verneuilina scabra, Cushman, 1918, etc., FAO, 1922, p. 55. 



Three stations: 170; WS 507 b, 517. 



This species, so abundant off the European shores of the North Atlantic, is extremely 

 rare. Two large and typical specimens were found at St. 170, but only a single small 

 specimen at each of the remaining stations. 



238. Verneuilina superba, sp.n. (Plate V, figs. 30-34). 

 Three stations: 170, 175, 363. 



Test long and slender, consisting of 4-7 series of inflated chambers, the length of 

 each chamber being nearly double its breadth ; sutures deeply impressed ; aperture large 

 but normal ; colour a rich ferruginous orange becoming lighter at the oral end ; surface 

 smooth, not polished but rather glittering owing to the light reflected from the sand 

 grains incorporated in the wall of the test, which is very thin. 



