280 Rev. A. M. Norman on two new Genera 
extremity slightly extruded, and that rather out of the central 
line, as is the distal point (style) of the pea-pod, while the 
mouth-opening is in the form of a contracted tube, repre- 
senting about the same proportional length and width to the 
cylinder as the basal portion of the pea-pod, where it passes 
into the calyx, does to the pod itself. 
The body-wall of Technitella is an exquisite specimen of 
perfect masonry: it is beautifully built up of the fragments of 
minute acerate spicula, laid in regular order side by side, and 
cemented with a mortar composed probably of the finest dust 
of quartz, so that the whole test is of exquisite snowy white- 
ness, corresponding in this respect to that of H. Tumanowiczit. 
Length 1°25 millim. 
Hab. Found among rich foraminiferous sand dredged by 
Dr. Jeffreys’s yacht ‘The Osprey,’ in 112 fathoms, 30 miles 
west of Valentia, Ireland, in 1870. 
Technitella melo, n.sp. (Pl. XVI. figs. 5, 6.) 
Test regularly ovoid, broadly and evenly rounded below 
‘(aborally) ; greatest diameter below the middle; above the 
middle sloped away to the central anterior (oral) opening. 
Oral opening not markedly extruded or tubular as in the last 
species, but compressed, so that the opening is in the form of 
a slit; this slit in the type is wider at the sides than in its 
central portion. The test is formed of minute linear sponge- 
spicules, built carefully into the wall, and the interstices filled 
with the same sort of snow-white cement as in the last species. 
Instead, however, of the whole of the spicula being entirely 
built into the body-wall as is the case in Technitella legumen, 
in this species the aboral portion is garnished with scattered 
acerate projecting spicula, the pointed ends of which are pro- 
truded considerably from the body-wall, and are invariably 
directed backwards. Length 1:4 millim., breadth 1 millim. 
Hab. Found among material dredged about 60 miles south 
of Rockal, by the ‘ Porcupine’ Expedition, in 1869. Station 
No. 28, lat. 56° 44! N., long. 12° 52! W., 1215 fathoms. 
The form of this little animal is just that of such a Lagena 
as L. melo, D’Orb.; and its aspect under a high power, with 
its imbedded and here and there projecting little spicula, 
reminded me forcibly of the appearance of a cocoa-nut when 
the outer husk is stripped off. 
The type was picked out from the ‘ Porcupine’ material by 
Mr. H. B. Brady, and sent to me marked “sponge?” There 
is no higher authority among the Foraminifera than Mr. 
Brady; and it is important therefore, as bearing upon the posi- 
tion which I have provisionally assigned to this genus, that 
