121 "TERRA NOVA" EXPEDITION. 



VERNEUILINA, d'Orbigny. 



201. Verneuilina spinulosa, Reuss. 



Verneuilina spinulosa, Reuss, 1849-50, FOT. p. 371:, pi. ii (.xlvii).. fig. 12. 



Heron-Allen and Earland, 1911, etc., FKA. 191-5, p. 6.30 



Station 2. 



A single spineless individual. 



202. Verneuilina triquetm (Miinster). 



Textularia triquetm, Roemer, 1838, CNTM. p. 384, pi. iii, fig. 19. 

 Verneuilina ., Brady, 1884, FC. p. 383, pi. xlvii, figs. 18-20. 

 Millett, 1898, etc., FM. 1900, p. 10. 



Stations 1-0. 



Common at some Stations in the N.Z. area, the specimens as a rule small, 

 excepting at Station 6. 



203. Verneuilina turris, sp. nov. PI. IV, figs 8-12. 



Stations 3, 4, 5, 6 (+ R. d. J.). 



Test free, consisting of a triserial arrangement of chambers forming a cylinder 

 with a bluntly conical apex, and an abruptly truncate base, containing the 

 aperture, which is a verneuiline loop on the inner edge of the final chamber. 

 Surface coarsely punctate. Sutural lines, thick, sometimes limbate, not perforate 

 on the sutural lines. Usually pale brown in colour at the apex and becoming 

 colourless in the later chambers. 



Size: — Length, •15-'25mm. ; breadth, '12- "15 mm. 



Common at Station 6, and less frequent at Stations 3 and 5. 



We have long been familiar with this little form, w^hich occurs in many 

 shallow-water gatherings from N.Z. The plan of the arrangement of the early 

 cliambers is very difficult to determine, but it appears to be spiral, as in the 

 initial chambers of Textularia inconspicua {q-v.), but the triserial arrangement is 

 immediately assumed, and retained during the remainder of the life of the animal 

 and the whole aspect of the shell is distinctively verneuiline. 



204. Verneuilina polystropha (Reuss). 



Bulimina polystropha, Reuss, 1845-6, VBK. pi. ii. ji. 109, jil. .xxiv, fig. .53. 



Verneuilina „ Heron-Allen and Earland, 1911, etc., FKA. 1915, p. 631 ; 1920, VP. 



{passim), pi. ,xvi-.\viii. 



Stations 7, 29 (+ D.). 

 Extremely rare. 



