NO. 2 LALICKER AND AlCCULLOCH : TEXTULARIIDAE 121 



Textularia candeiana d'Orbigny 

 Plate 13, Figs, la, h, c 



Textularia candeiana d'Orbigny, in De la Sagra, Hist. Fis. Pol. Nat. 

 Cuba, "Foraminiferes," 1839, p. 143, pi. 1, figs. 25-27; Fornasini, Mem. 

 Accad. Sci. Istit. Bologna, ser. 5, vol. 10, 1903, pi. O, fig. 8 ; Chapman, 

 Rep. Foram. Subantarctic Islands, New Zealand, 1909, p. 329; Cush- 

 man, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 71, pt. 2, 1911, p. 12, figs. 14-17 (in text) ; 

 Heron-Allen and Earland, Trans. Zool. Soc. London, vol. 20, pt. 2, 

 1915, p. 627, pi. 47, figs. 10-16; Trans. Linn. Soc. London, vol. 11, 

 ser. 2, 1916, p. 230, pi. 41, figs. 1, 2; Journ. Roy. Micr. Soc, 1916, p. 

 41 ; Cushman, Carnegie Inst. Washington Publ. 291, 1922, p. 32; Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 59, 1921, p. 50, pi. 11, figs. 7, 8; U. S. Nat. Mus. 

 Bull. 100, vol. 4, 1921, p. 109; Carnegie Inst. Washington Publ. 311, 

 1922, p. 32, pi. 2, fig. 2; U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 104, pt. 3, 1922, p. 8, 

 pi. 1, figs. 1-3; Heron-Allen and Earland, British Antarctic Exped., 

 Zool., vol. 6, 1922, p. 119; Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool., vol. 35, 1924, p. 

 618; Hanzawa, Jap. Journ. Geol. Pal., vol. 4, 1925 (1926), p. 38 

 (table) ; Cushman, Carnegie Inst. Washington Publ. 344, 1926, p. 76; 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 161, pt. 1, 1932, p. 9, pi. 2, figs. Aa, b. 



Textularia sagittula Defrance, var. candeiana Millet, Journ. Roy. 

 Micr. Soc, 1899, p. 562, pi. 7, fig. 2. 



Test elongate, roughly triangular in front view, club shaped in side 

 view, ovate in top view, the early portion slender and compressed, ex- 

 panding gradually to the rounded adult portion, the peripheral margin 

 subacute in the early portion and broadly rounded in the upper portion ; 

 chambers numerous, low, broad, and flat in the early portion, later 

 chambers enlarge rapidly, the final ones being much inflated; sutures 

 distinct, slightly depressed, straight and oblique; wall rather coarsely 

 arenaceous, being composed of fine and coarse sand grains embedded in 

 a matrix of calcareous cement, smoothly finished; aperture a broad, low 

 slit at the base of the inner margin of the last-formed chamber. Length, 

 up to 1.00 mm.; maximum width, 0.65 mm.; maximum thickness, 

 0.50 mm. 



This species, which is common in the waters adjacent to the West 

 Indies, has been found at the following Hancock Expedition stations: 

 113, 213, 238, 243, 278, 300, 311, 314, 315, 316, 317, 320, 325, 409, 

 410, 421, 425, 426, 447, 459, 465, 468, 511, 545, 573, and 2011. 



Distribution. — In the Gulf of California, off Catalina, southward 

 to Peru with a depth range of 3 to 32 fms. 



