352 SUBANTARCTIC ISLANDS OP NEW ZEALAND. [Foraminifera. 



Genus Candeina, d'Orbigny, 1839. 



Candeina nitida, d'Orbigny. 



Candeina nitida, d'Orbigny, 1839, Foram. Cuba, p. 108, pi. ii, figs. 27, 28. 

 C. nitida, d'Orb., Millett, 1903, Journ. R. Micr. Soc, p. 692, pi. vii, 

 fig. 2. 



Distribution. — Widely dispersed. 



Present Occurrence. — Twenty miles north of Auckland Island ; 85 fathoms ; 

 very rare. Ten miles north of Enderby Island ; 85 fathoms ; common. 



Fam. ROTALIIDAE. 



Subfam. SPIRILLININAE. 



Genus Spirillina, Ehrenberg, 1841. 



Spirillina vivipara, Ehrenberg. 



Spirillina vivipara. Ehrenberg, 1841. Abandl. k. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, p. 422, 

 pi. iii, vii, fig. 41. S. vivipara, Ehr., Flint, 1899, Rep. U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 for 1897, p. 326, pi. Ixxi, fig. 4. 



The present examples are of moderate size, and typical. 



Distribution. — Geographically unrestricted. Both Brady and Egger record it 

 as far south as Kerguelen Island. Curiously, no examples of the genus Spirillina 

 have hitherto been recorded from the New Zealand area. 



Present Occurrence. — Off the Snares ; 60 fathoms ; rare. Twenty miles north of 

 Auckland Island, 85 fathoms ; rare. Ten miles north of Enderby Island ; 85 fathoms : 

 common. 



Spirillina obconica, Brady. 



Spirillina obconica, Brady, 1879, Quart. Journ. Micr. Sci., vol. xix, n.s., 

 p. 279, pi. viii, figs. 27 a, b. 



The examples found are minute, and beautifully transparent. 

 Distribution. — Brady gives three localities for this species — viz., off Prince 

 Edward Island, Kerguelen Island, and Admiralty Islands. 

 Present Occurrence. — Off the Snares ; 60 fathoms ; rare. 



Spirillina novae-zealandiae, sp. nov. (Plate XVII, figs. 4 a, b, and 5.) 



Description. — Test thick ; suture more or less obscured, according to age ; 

 periphery rounded, and often longitudinally lineated with secondary shell-growth ; 

 surface abundantly perforated with coarse pores and surrounded with supplementary 

 shell-deposit. 



Diameter of larger figured specimen, 1*36 mm. ; thickness, 0-28 mm. 



Remarks. — This species differs from S. vivipara in the thick test, coarse pores, 

 indistinct sutures, and well-rounded periphery. At first sight it might be mistaken 

 for <S. tuberculata, Brady,* since the pores under certain illumination seem to appear 



* Rep. Chall., vol. ix, 1884, p. 631, pi. kxxv, figs. 12-16. 



