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strictures much larger. Basal plate with four large triangular pores. Apical horn slender, 

 prismatic ; its outer free part of the same length as the inner columella, and as the two lateral feet, 

 which are curved, shorter than half the ring. 



Dimensions. Shell 0'08 long, O09 broad; ring O'OG long; horn and feet 0'03 long. 



Habitat. Mediterranean, Messina (E. Hertwig). 



3. Lophospyris comosa, n. sp. 



Shell ovate, spiny, with deep transverse stricture. Cupola large, campanulate, nearly as long 

 and two-thirds as broad as the nut-shaped eephalis. Pores irregular, roundish, of little different size, 

 Basal plate with numerous (eight to twelve) similar pores. Apical horn large, nearly as long as the 

 shell, surrounded by a bunch of smaller divergent spines. Two lateral feet divergent, larger than 

 the shell, cylindrical ; at the distal end irregularly branched, at the base surrounded by some smaller 

 spines. 



Dimensions. Shell 015 long, Oil broad; ring - 08 long; feet 0'2 long. 



Habitat. Western Tropical Pacific, Station 206, depth 2100 fathoms. 



Genus 471. Sepalospyris, 1 Haeckel, 1881, Prodromus, p. 443. 



Definition. T holospyrida with numerous basal feet (eight to twelve or 

 more). Galea with a horn. 



The genus Sepalospyris has been derived from the similar Petalospyris by 

 development of a galea or cupola on the coryphal face of the eephalis, or from 

 Tholospyris by multiplication of the basal feet. The latter (in the two observed 

 species from twelve to twenty -five) form a regular corona around the basal plate. 



1. Sepalospyris platyphylla, n. sp. 



Shell ovate, rough, with sharp transverse stricture Cupola with delicate network, hemi- 

 spherical, about two-thirds as long and broad as the nut-shaped thorax. Pores of the latter 

 irregular, roundish ; two or three pairs of large pores on each side of the sagittal stricture. 

 Apical horn conical, half as long as the shell. Basal coronet with twelve to fifteen broad, 

 lamellar, truncate, vertical feet, somewhat shorter than the eephalis. 



Dimensions. Shell 012 long, 013 broad; ring 0'06 long; horn 0'04 ; feet 0'05 long. 



Habitat. Central Pacific, Station 265, depth 2900 fathoms. 



2. Sepalospyris polyphylla, n. sp. 



Shell campanulate, rough, with deep transverse stricture. Cupola hemispherical, about one- 

 third as long and broad as the nut-shaped thorax. Pores irregular, roundish, a little different in 



1 Sepalospyris = Basket with leaves ; airs-afoot, *i/j/f. 



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