NO. 9 NEW ARCTIC FORAMINIFERA CUSHMAN 3 



slightly depressed ; wall smooth ; aperture not projecting above the 

 general outline of the test, large, semicircular, with a very small bifid 

 tooth. Length, 0.50-0.65 mm; breadth, 0.40-0.50 mm ; thickness, 0.20- 

 0.30 mm. 



Holotype. — U.S.N.M. No. 26152, from 10-35 fathoms, off Claver- 

 ing Island, NE. Greenland. 



This species has been found common in the Bartlett collections. 

 It shows some variation in the chambers, and at certain stations the 

 outer angles of the chamber become considerably rounded. It may be 

 that this is the same species as that figured by Parker and Jones in 

 1865 (pi. 15, figs. 36a-c), and recorded by them as " Quinquelocidina 

 ferussacii d'Orbigny." It is, however, very different from d'Orbigny's 

 species. Their specimens were from off Hunde Islands, Davis Strait, 

 30-70 fathoms. This species occurs at the following localities in the 

 Bartlett material : 7 fathoms. Shannon Island, NE. Greenland ; 7 

 fathoms, fiord between Clavering Island and Homes Foreland, near 

 glacier, NE. Greenland ; Labrador ; bight of Shannon Island, NE. 

 Greenland ; 67 fathoms, off camp, Cape David Gray, Shannon Island, 

 NE. Greenland; 10-35 fathoms. Shannon Island, NE. Greenland; be- 

 tween Shannon Island and Hochstetter Foreland, NE. Greenland ; 

 and 50-57 fathoms, off Clavering Island, NE. Greenland. 



Genus GORDIOSPIRA Heron-Allen and Earland, 1932 



Gordiospira Heron-Allen and Earland, Journ. Roy. Micr. Soc, vol. 52, p. 254, 

 1932. 



Genotype. — Gordiospira fragilis Heron-Allen and Earland. 



Test free, early coils in varying planes, later planispiral and nearly 

 involute ; wall calcareous, imperforate ; aperture somewhat triangular, 

 terminal. Recent, Arctic and Antarctic. 



This genus has recently been described from the Antarctic Discovery 

 material. It is interesting, therefore, to record another species of the 

 genus from the Arctic. 



GORDIOSPIRA ARCTICA, n. sp. 



Plate I, figs. 5-7 



Test planispiral, partially involute, the coils few in number, rounded ; 

 suture decidedly depressed ; wall calcareous, smooth except for numer- 

 ous heavy varices of growth which give an irregular appearance to 

 the surface ; aperture formed by the open end of the tube. 



Holotype. — U.S.N.M. No. 26147, from bight of Shannon Island. 

 NE. Greenland. 



