NO. 2 LALICKER AND MCCULLOCH : TEXTULARIIDAE 139 



Carnegie Instit. Washington Publ. 342, 1924, p. 14, pi. 3, fig. 2; Heron- 

 Allen and Earland, Journ. Roy. Micr. Soc, 1924, p. 136; Cushman, 

 Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bull. No. 27, 1925 (1926), p. 124. 



Textularia agglutinans d'Orbigny, forma jugosa Goes, Kongl. Sv. 

 Vet. Akad. Handl., vol. 25, no. 9, 1894, p. 35, pi. 7, figs. 297-299. 



Test large, robust, early portion expanding rapidly, sides nearly par- 

 allel in later portion, somewhat compressed, peripheral margin subacute, 

 lobulate ; chambers numerous, about twice as wide as high, lower portion 

 of each chamber excavated, and the upper portion inflated, giving each 

 chamber an overhanging appearance; sutures distinct, depressed, some- 

 what curving in an anterior direction; wall rather coarsely arenaceous 

 but smoothly finished, composed of fine and coarse arenaceous grains ce- 

 mented with calcareous cement; aperture a very low, broad opening at 

 the inner margin of the chamber, in a distinct re-entrant. Length, up to 

 1.75 mm. 



This species is widely distributed in deposits ranging in age from Oli- 

 gocene to Recent. It is present at the following Hancock Expedition sta- 

 tions : 209, 278, and 2049. 



Distribution. — Near Bonito Island, Mexico, and in the Gulf of Cali- 

 fornia, 12 to 55 fms. 



Textularia saulcyana d'Orbigny 

 Plate 16, Figs. 22a, b, c, d 



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

 Cuba, 'Toraminiferes," 1839, p. 146, pi. 1, figs. 21, 22. 



Textularia concava (Karrer), var. heterostoma Heron-Allen and 

 Earland, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, vol. 11, ser. 2, 1916, p. 229, pi. 40, 

 figs. 22, 23; Cushman, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 104. pt. 3, 1922, p. 15, 

 pi. 2, figs. 7, 8; Lacroix, Bull. Instit. Oceanogr. No. 622, 1933, p. 8, 

 figs. 5-10 (in text). 



Test elongate, somewhat subrhomboidal in outline, typically slightly 

 twisted on the elongate axis, peripheral margin rounded; chambers nu- 

 merous, low and broad, increasing in height as added, typically rounded 

 and slightly inflated, upper surface somewhat flattened in some speci- 

 mens; sutures distinct, depressed, sloping at an angle of about 25° from 

 a horizontal line, straight to slightly curved ; wall finely arenaceous, com- 

 posed of fine sand grains and a large proportion of calcareous cement; 

 aperture a narrow slit developed on the last-formed chamber just above 



