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GOES: FORAMINIFERA. 19 
ASTRORHIZA Sanpaut. 
A. granulosa Brapy. 
A. granulosa Br., 1884, Challeng. Rep., IX. p. 234, Pl. XX. Figs. 14-28. 
A few of this not well distinct species have been met with at 2° 34’ Lat. N.; 
82° 29’ Long. W. The color is lighter than in the typical form. 
Two specimens of a very small growth (1.5 mm.), probably belonging to 
A. granulosa, have been met with in the Caribbean Sea at 1,630 fathoms. The 
shell wall is very brittle, being constructed of sand and sponge needles, etc. 
Pacific. 1201 fathoms; scarce. 
A, crassatina Brapy. 
A, crassatina Br. (1881), 1884, Challeng. Rep., IX. p. 233, Pl. XX. Figs. 1-9. 
To this species I assign with some doubt a good lot of stout, rough, fusi- 
form specimens of the same shape as the typical ones, represented by Brady; 
but the tube channel is more even and not varicously dilatated as in that. The 
walls are thick, loosely cemented of shell débris, mud, and sand, grayish or ash- 
colored; length 10-15 mm.; diam. 2-3 mm. 
Pacific. 885 fathoms. 
A. angulosa Brapy. 
A. angulosa Br. (1881), 1884, Challeng. Rep., IX. p. 234, Pl. XX. Figs. 10-13. 
A not very well distinguished form; it is sometimes nearly impossible to 
distinguish it from more loosely agglutinating forms of Rhabdammina abys- 
sorum with lost arms. Diam. 2-3 mm. 
Pacific. A few specimens from 885 fathoms off St. James Island. 
A. furcata, n. 
Plate I. Figs. 4, 5. 
Usually flat-convex, with three arms, one longer and two shorter, rapidly 
tapering to the apertural ends; the wall constructed of mud and fine sand 
grains; color dark gray. May even be ranked in the allied genus Pelosina 
Br. Length about 5 mm. 
Fig. 4 lateral; Fig. 5, marginal aspect. 
Pacific. 772 fathoms, off Acapulco; scarce. 
