FORAMINIFER A— HERON- ALLEN AND EAR LAND. 83 



SuB-PAMiLv SACCAMMININAE. 

 PSAMMOSPHAEEA, Schulze. 



81. Psam))iosphaera fusca, Schulze. PI. I, fig. 18. 



Psammosphaem fusca, Scliulze, 1874, R. p. 11.3, pi. ii, fig. S. 



Heron-Allen and Earlaud, 1914, etc., FKA. 191.5, p. 609. 



Stations 1-3, 6-10, 16, 18, 21-25, 27, 29-33, 36, 37, 41, 42, 45, 47, 48, 50, 51, 53- 

 55 (+ T. d. F., D.). 



Almost universally distributed. The best N.Z., at Station 6, where it is 

 abundant and presents the entire range of variation descriljed and figiu'ed in 

 our 1913 i^aper (H.-A. & E., 1912, etc.. NSG. 1913, p. 1, pis. i-iii), from large, 

 spherical, roughly-built free specimens, down to sessile individuals entirely com- 

 posed of the finest mud. One individual deserves especial remark, sessile, low- 

 domed, constructed of coarse sand-grains, but having three radiating tubules 

 of fine sand, extendmg to some distance from the edge. At Stations 2 and 3 

 (N.Z.), and 53 and 55 (Antarctic) the large free spherical forms, in many instances, 

 have a long sponge-spicule built into the edge of the wall and jDrojectmg, but 

 not traversuig the central cavity as in P. parva. The best Antarctic series were 

 obtained at Stations 29 and 50, large and very rough ; at Stations 21 and 32, 

 the only Antarctic sessile specimens. 



82. Psammosphaera fusca, var. testaeea, Flint. 



Psammosjihaera fusca, var. testacea, Flint, 1899, RFA. p. 268, pi. viii, fig. 2. 



Heron-Allen and Earland, 1912, etc., NSG. 1913, p. 18, 

 pi. ii. fig. 9. 



Station 6. 



A few typical specimens of this doubtfully separable species. 



83. Psammosphaera parva, Flint. 



Psammosphaera fusca, de Folin, 1895, SRR. p. 16, jsl. 0, figs. 4, 5. 

 parva. Flint, 1899, RFA. p. 268, pi. ix, fig. 1. 



,. Heron- Allen and Earland: 1912, etc., NSG. 1913. p. 17, pi. ii, fig.s. 7, 8, 



Stations 2, 15, 32, 40. 



The records are few, and none of the specimens are very distinctive. 



84. Psaiiunosjjliaer'j Ito/nuaniii, Heron-Allen and Earland. 



Psammosphaera howmanni, Heron-Allen and Earland, 1912, etc., NSG. 1912, p. 38-5, pi. v, 



figs. 5, 6, pi. vi, fig. 5 ; 1913, CI. p. 39 ; 1916, FWS. p. 219. 

 Cusliman, 1918, etc., FAO, p. 36, pi. i.x. figs. 5, 6 ; pi. x, fig. .5. 



Stations 3, 6. 



It is of great interest to us to record the presence of this interesting form 

 from a new area. Three specimens occur, one at Station 6, quite typical, 



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