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Nod. scalaris Br., 1884, Chall. Rep., IX. p.510, Pl. LXIIL. Figs. 28-31, Pl. LXIV. 
Figs. 16-19. 
Nod. scalaris Gots, 1894, Arct. & Scand. Foramf., Sv. Vet. Ak. Hdl., XXV. 9, 
p. 73, Pl. XIII. Figs. 716-718. 
An extenuated pygmy form of the type. 
Caribbean Sea. Not very scarce at 300-400 fathoms (Goés). 
N. communis D’Ors. 
Plate VI. Fig. 1. 
Dental. communis D’ORB., 1840, Craie bl. Paris, Mém. Soc. Géol. Fr., LV. p. 18, Pl. I. 
Fig. 4. 
Dental. inornata, badenensis D’ORB., 1846, Bass. tert. Vienne, p. 44, Pl. I. Figs. 48-51. 
Nodos. communis Gots, 1882, Ret. Rhizop. Caribbean Sea, Sv. Vet. Ak. Hdl., XIX. 
Pl. I. Fig. 16, Pl. II. Figs. 22,24, 25 (assigned to Vaginulina legumen, while some- 
what compressed). 
Nodos. Roemeri NevG., 1856, Stichosteg. Ober-Lapugy, Wien. Ak. Dkschr., XII. p. 82, 
Pl. II. Figs. 13-17 (short form). 
Nodos. communis, roemeri Br., 1884, Chall. Rep., IX. pp. 504, 505, Pl. LXII. Figs. 
19-22, Pl. LXIII. Fig. 1. 
Nodos. communis Gos, 1894, Sv. Vet. Ak. Hdi., XXV. 9, p. 68, Pl. XII. Figs. 667- 
671. 
The name of communis was conferred in 1840 by d’Orbigny on a slender 
Nodosarina with obliquely set septa from the chalk of Paris; but a short time 
afterwards, in 1846, new names, as badenensis, inornata, were given to the same 
form. Previously, 1826, d’Orbigny had bestowed the name communis on * 
Soldani’s form farcimen. 
As this denomination of Soldani should take precedence, it would be un- 
necessary to discard d’Orbigny’s name for the form described in 1840, as some 
authors have proposed, and change it for its later synonym, inornata. It cannot 
be well distinguished from N. Roemeri and N. mucronata (NEUG.) BRaDy 
Pacific. 1132-1839 fathoms. 
Carribbean Sea. 130-1832 fathoms ; not common. 
N. pauperata v’Ors. 
Dental. pauperata D’ORB., 1846, Bass. tert. Vienne, p. 46, Pl. I. Figs. 57,58 (with 
larger initial segment). 
Nodos. pauperata Br., 1884, Chall. Rep., IX. p. 500 (woodcut). 
Nodos pauperata Gos, 1894, Arct. & Scand. Foramf., Sv. Vet. Ak. Hdl., XXV. 9, 
p. 68, Pl. XII. Figs. 672-686. 
This form acquires in tropic seas, particularly in the Caribbean Sea, a high 
development of comparatively gigantic dimensions. It has been loaded with 
different names. The riper segments have a tendency to become inflated with 
constricted sutures, and it is this feature together with the different relative 
