24 SHALLOW-WATER FORAMINIFERA OF TORTUGAS REGION. 
This species occurred at 5 stations in the area, usually those of 
greater depths. I have failed to find it in other material from the 
West Indies or Caribbean, although it is a striking form and could 
hardly be overlooked. With its peripheral spines it resembles such 
species as 7’. carinata d’Orbigny, 7. horrida Egger, and T’. sagittula 
Defrance var. fistulosa H. B. Brady, but is different from any of these. 
It is named in honor of Dr. Alfred G. Mayor, Director of the 
Tortugas Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. 
Textularia floridana, new species. 
(Plate 1, Figure 7.) 
Teztularia transversaria Flint (not H. B. Brady), Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1897 (1899), p. 283, 
pl. 28, fig. 4. 
Test elongate, two to three times as long as wide, much compressed, 
periphery acute, the ends of the chambers forming tubular projections, but 
often broken, showing a truncate or concave area which is hollow; the initial 
end rather sharply pointed, the apertural end broadly rounded; chambers 
numerous, thickest near the center, increasing somewhat in height toward 
the apertural end; sutures indistinct, slightly if at all depressed; wall finely 
arenaceous, smooth; aperture small, rounded, at the base of the inner margin 
of the last-formed chamber. 
Length slightly more than 1 mm. 
There is a single specimen of this species from station 42, in 18 
fathoms. It is very typical and like those collected from off 
Florida. From the other records, it is evidently not a species of 
very shallow water, and this may account for its rarity in the 
Tortugas collection. There are records for its occurrence as far 
north as the coast of South Carolina. 
Textularia conica d’Orbigny. 
(Plate 2, Figure 4.) 
Teztularia conica d’Orbigny, in De la Sagra, Hist. Fis. Pol. Nat. Cuba, 1839, “‘ Forami- 
niféres,’’ p. 143, pl. 1, figs. 19, 20.—H. B. Brady, Rep. Voy. Challenger, Zoology, 
vol. 9, 1884, p. 365, pl. 43, figs. 13, 14, pl. 113, fig. 1—Cushman, Proc. U. S. Nat. 
Mus., vol. 59, 1921, p. 50, pl. 11, figs. 4 to 6. 
Test usually wider than high, triangular in front view, broadly oval in 
end view, slightly compressed, the apex bluntly pointed; chambers compar- 
atively few, distinct; sutures distinct, slightly depressed; wall arenaceous, 
smooth, or slightly roughened; aperture a narrow slit at the base of the 
inner margin of the last-formed chamber, with a slight overhanging lip; 
color grayish-white. 
Length of the Tortugas specimens usually less than 1 mm. 
Specimens seem to be very rare in all the Tortugas material 
examined. The original figure given by d’Orbigny is more or less con- 
ventionalized, showing a smooth surface, but otherwise gives the 
general shape fairly well. He recorded it from Cuba and Jamaica, 
and I have had material from the latter locality. It occurs elsewhere 
in the Gulf of Mexico and in the Caribbean. According to the 
records, it seems to be a species of warm, tropical waters. 
