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Psammosphaera rustica Heron-Allen and Earland 



Psammosphaera rustica Heron-Allen and Earland, Journ. Roy. 

 Micr. Soc, 1912, p. 383, pi. 5, figs. 3, 4; pi. 6, figs. 2-4.— Cushman, 

 Bull. 104, U. S. Nat. Mus., pt. 1, 1918, p. 37, pi. 9, figs. 3, 4; pi. 10, 

 figs. 2-4. — Heron-Allen and Earland, British Antarctic Exped., Zoology, 

 vol. 6, 1922, p. 84.— Earland, Discovery Rep'ts, vol. VH, 1933, p. 60, 

 pi. 1, fig. 27. 



Specimens very similar to those figured by Heron-Allen and Earland 

 occur at Station 487. They are made of fragments of sponge spicules 

 neatly cemented with longer spicules at the angles. 



Distribution. — 0£f Chatham, Galapagos Islands, 400 fms. 



Genus SAGCAMMINA M. Sars, 1869 

 Saccammina sphaerica M. Sars 



There are numerous specimens, all very similar in size, shape and 

 material, from Station 2070 that probably belong in this species. A small 

 aperture is present. 



Distribution. — OH Mexico, Guadalupe Island, 250 fms. 



Genus PROTEONINA Williamson, 1858 



Proteonina difHugiformis (H. B. Brady) 



Plate 1, Fig. 5 



Reophax difflugifor?nis H. B. Brady, Quart. Journ. Micr. Sci., vol. 

 19, 1879, p. 51, pi. 4, figs. 3a, b; Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 43, 

 pt. 2, 1882, p. 99; Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh, vol. 11, 1882, p. 715; 

 Rep. Voy. Challenger, Zoology, vol. 9, 1884, p. 289, pi. 30, figs. 2-4 

 (not 1, 5). — Goes, Kongl. Svensk. Vet. Akad. Handl., vol. 25, no. 9, 

 1894, p. 26, pi. 6, figs. 196-198; Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 29, 1896, 

 p. 28.— Flint, Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1897 (1899), p. 272, pi. 16, fig. 

 2.— Millett, Journ. Roy. Micr. Soc, 1899, p. 252.— Dakin, Rep. Ceylon 

 Pearl Oyster Fisheries, vol. 5, 1906, p. 232. — Heron-Allen and Ear- 

 land, Proc. Roy. Irish Acad., vol. 31, no. 64, 1913, p. 42; Trans. Zool. 

 Soc, vol. 20, 1915, p. 612; Trans. Linn. Soc. London, vol. 11, 1916, 

 p. 222; Journ. Roy. Micr. Soc, 1916, p. 40. 



Saccammina difflugiformis Eimer and Fickert, Zeitschr. Wiss. Zool., 

 vol.65, 1899, p. 671. 



Proteonina difflugiformis Rhumbler, Arch. Prot., vol. 3, 1903, p. 

 245, figs. 80fl, b, (in text).— Cushman, Bull. 71, U. S. Nat. Mus., pt. 



