NO. 5 CUSHMAN AND MCCULLOCH : SOME BULIMINIDAE 249 



The types of this species were from Recent material in 1,121 fathoms 

 ofif the west coast of North America, Lat. 36° 40' N. ; Long. 122° 26' W. 

 It has been found at other localities in this area. 



Stations: 1124, 1212. 



Distribution. — A few specimens occurred at these stations off south- 

 ern California and seem very typical. 



Bulimina (Desinobulimina) auriculata Bailey 

 PlateSl, Fig. 4 



Bulimina auriculata Bailey, Smithsonian Contr., vol. 2, 1851, p. 12, 

 pi., figs. 25-27. 



Bulimina (Desinobulimina) auriculata Cushman and Parker, Contr. 

 Cushman Lab. Foram. Res., vol. 16, 1940, p. 20, pi. 3, figs. 19-21. — 

 Cushman, idem, Special Publ. No. 12, 1944, p. 28, pi. 3, fig. 48. — Cush- 

 man and Todd, idem. Special Publ. No. 15, 1945, p. 40, pi. 6, fig. 14. — 

 Cushman and Gray, idem. Special Publ. No. 19, 1946, p. 29. — Cushman 

 and Todd, idem, Special Publ. No. 21, 1947, p. 18, pi. 3, fig. 3. — Cushman 

 and Parker, U.S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 210-D, 1947, p. 129, pi. 29, 

 figs. 22-24. 



Bulimina pyrula Flint (not d'Orbigny), Ann. Rept. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., 1897 (1899), p. 290, pi. 36, figs. 4, 5. 



Test elongate, fusiform, composed of about three whorls, involute, 

 the last-formed whorl forming three-fourths of the test or more, initial 

 end acute or slightly rounded; chambers distinct, inflated; sutures dis- 

 tinct, slightly if at all depressed ; wall thin, smooth ; aperture terminal, 

 with a large, curved tooth, the connecting internal trough easily visible 

 through the wall of the test. Length up to 1.00 mm; breadth up to 

 0.45 mm. 



The types of this species are from the western Atlantic southeast of 

 Montauk Point, Long Island, in 51 fathoms. It is a common species in 

 the western Atlantic and occurs in the late Tertiary and in the Eastern 

 Pacific. 



Stations: Or. 10, Or. 16, 1, 11-4, 136, 144, 339, 653, 1052, 1068, 

 1073, 1090, 1096, 1097, 1101, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1108, 1114, 1116, 

 1119, 1121, 1122, 1131, 1135, 1136, 1143, 1144, 1146, 1150, 1157, 

 1158, 1159, 1161, 1165, 1166, 1167, 1169, 1173, 1174, 1175, 1179, 

 1180, 1181, 1184, 1203, 1210, 1215, 1220, 1229, 1230, 1231, 1234, 

 1238, 1239, 1242, 1245, 2169. 



Distribution. — These stations are nearly all from the coast of south- 

 ern California and the species is often abundant in some of the samples. 



