30 GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY OF THE WEST INDIES. 



New species. 



2 Lemoine and R. Douville. 



Michellotti. 



Brady. 



5 d'Orbigny. 



ASTRORHIZID^. 



Psammosphaera fusca F. £. Schulze. 



Psammosphcera fusca F. E. Schulze, II Jahr. Comm. wiss. Unt. deutsch. Meer in Kiel, p. 113, 

 plate 2, figs. 8 a to/, 1875; H. B. Brady, Rep. Voy. Challenger, Zoology, vol. 9, 

 p. 249, plate 18, figs. 1, 5 to 8 (not 2 to 4), 1884. 



The following is a description of this species : 



Test spherical, composed of a single layer of sand grains held together by a 

 grayish cement, exterior rough, aperture consists only of the interstitial spaces. 

 Diameter up to 2 mm. 



Specimens from Bowden seem referable to this species. 



LITUOLIDiE. 



Haplostiche dubia (d'Orbigny) var. intermedia (Vanden Broeck). 



(Plate 6, Figures 1 to 4.) 



Lituola soldanii Jones and Parker var. intermedia Vanden Broeck, Ann. Soc. Belg. Micr., 



vol. 2, p. 74, plate 2, figs. 1, 3, 4, 6, 1876. 

 Lituola soldanii Jones and Parker, Ann. Soc. Mai. Belg., vol. 11, p. 98, 1876; Hill, Bull. 



Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 34, p. 147, 1899. 



The following is a description of this variety: 



Test elongate, subcylindrical, tapering gradually from the broad apertural 

 end to the almost pointed initial end, chambers numerous, 10 to 12, hemi- 

 spherical, the proximal portion overlapping the preceding chamber, sutures 

 excavated, chambers in a linear series with a straight axis or often curved or 

 sharply bent toward the distal end; wall composed of agglutinated sand grains 

 with occasional tests of other Foraminifera; aperture terminal, central, usually 

 somewhat dendritic; interior of chamber labyrinthic, in transverse section 

 showing the subdivisions arranged in radial manner. 



Length up to 6 mm. 



