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a somewhat similar shell if the interpretation put upon it by those authors is correct, 

 but Seguenza's figure is difficult to interpret in the sense of " pittings," and both his 

 name and his description ('■'■ qitesta specie si distingue per un doppio niargine . . . e per le 

 grosse punteggiature delta superjicie '") seem to point merely to a coarsely perforated 

 test, and not to pits or internal lacunae. 



285. Lagena auriculata Brady. 



Lagena auriculata Brady, 1879, etc., RRC. 1881, p. 61. 



Brady, 1884, FC. p. 487, pi. Ix. fi-s. 29, 33, & ?31. 

 Millett, 1898, etc., FM. 1901, p. 625, pi. xiv. figs. 14-16. 

 Sidebottom, 1912, etc., LSP. 1912, p. 420, pi. xx. figs. 4-14. 



1 Station. 



A single specimen from Stn. 6 of the ornata or lagenoides type of L. auriculata 

 resembling the figs. 13 and 14 of Sidebottom's plate xx. The same variety is 

 figured by Millett, but the Kerimba specimen agrees with Sidebottom's figure in 

 the limited extent of the auricular processes, which only extend to about the middle 

 portion of the test, whereas in the Malay specimens they are carried up to the neck. 

 This particular variety of L. auriculata appears to be widely distributed ; we have 

 similar specimens from shallow water off Tahiti and have observed it in one or two 

 other shallow Pacific gatherings. Sidebottom's specimens are all from deep water 

 ranging down to nearly 2000 fms. Several varieties of this very variable form are 

 described and figured by Cushman (C. 1910, etc., FNP. 1913, p. £2). 



Subfamily N o D o s a R 1 1 N ^. 

 NoDOSARiA Lamarck. 



286. Nodosaria proxima o. Silvestri. 



Nodosaria proxima O. Silvestri, 1872, NFVI. p. 63, pi. vi. figs. 138-147. 

 Brady, 1884, FC. p. 511, pi. Ixiv. fig. 15. 

 Fornasini, 1888, TP. p. 149, pi. in. figs. 10, 11. 

 Millett, 1898, etc., FM. 1902, p. 519, pi. xi. fig. 9. 



5 Stations. 



Sparingly distributed excepting at Stn. 1, where a good many individuals were 

 observed. The specimens are, as usual, commonly bilocular, but a perfect trilocular 

 specimen was found at Stn. 1, and one or two showing traces of a broken third 

 chamber at other Stns. At Stn. 7 some of the specimens had the costse on the 

 initial chamber spirally arranged, those on the terminal chamber being normally 

 straight. Fornasini compares N. proxima with Lagena vulgaris, var. Mcamerata 

 Rymer Jones (J. 1872, LJS. p. 65, pi. xix. figs. 60-62). 



