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This species is best known from about the British Isles but is re- 

 corded from the Mediterranean and from off the Malay region. Our 

 specimens are very similar to those from off the British Isles. Localities: 

 248, 2070, A-16. 



Distribution. — The records now place this species in the Pacific. 

 Alaska, Simpson's Bay, north arm, in 35 fms. ; Mexico, off the Guada- 

 lupe Island in 250 fms.; off the north end of Espiritu Santo Island in 

 24 fms. 



Reophax subfusiformis Earland 

 Plate 3, Figs. 14-16 



Reophax subfusiformis Earland, Discovery Rep'ts, vol. VII, 1933, 

 p. 74, pi. 2, figs. 16-19; vol. X, 1934, p. 80. 



Test elongate, fusiform, axis usually curved; chambers three to six, 

 usually four, rapidly increasing in size as added so that the last-formed 

 one in the adult makes up a large part of the test, fusiform in shape, 

 the apertural end much prolonged into a slightly tapering neck; wall 

 with numerous large sand grains often with a large proportion of ce- 

 ment; aperture rounded at the end of the tubular neck. 



Length 1.25-2.00 xnm; diameter 0.40-0.60 mm. 



This species was originally described from off South Georgia and 

 recorded also from the Falklands. Our specimens are very similar in 

 shape and surface characters. They occur at numerous stations often in 

 considerable abundance. Localities: A-6, A-7, A-16, A-5, A-4, 299, 284, 

 283, 35, 249, 506, 2014, 539, 463, 556, 418, 2037, 558, 513, 2052. 



Distribution. — Alaska, off Cordova, at low tide and in 3 fms. ; Cali- 

 fornia, Catalina, in 6 fms.; Mexico, numerous stations in the Gulf of 

 California, 15 to 222 fms.; off Panama and Colombia in 12 to 20 fms. 



Reophax depressus Natland 

 Plate 3, Figs, 17, 18 



Reophax depressus Natland, Bull. Scripps Instit. Oceanography, 

 Tech. Sen, vol. 4, no. 5, 1938, pi. 3, figs. 1, 2. 



Test elongate, proloculum spherical, later chambers usually some- 

 what compressed, the sides of the test usually somewhat flaring as 

 growth progresses, chambers fairly distinct, usually four to six in num- 

 ber; wall coarsely arenaceous but fairly smooth on the surface; aper- 

 ture usually elongate, terminal. Length 1.50-2.50 mm; breadth 0.50- 

 0.75 mm. 



