FROM THE FUNAFUTI ATOLL. 1 
i) | 
Tutanga, 200 fathoms. 
S.S.W. of Fuafatu, 60 fathoms ; one specimen. 
In the collections made by Prof. Sollas at Funafuti O. monti- 
cularis has occurred in :-— 
Beach sand, Gold Island; one specimen. 
Beach of Creek, Rocky Island; one specimen. 
In coral-rock of the 2nd shaft, trial pit, ocean side; frequent. 
Under solid platform, seaward face, 3rd shaft, trial pit; 
common. 
In sand at 90 feet in the Ist (Sollas’s) boring ; one specimen. 
The fragmentary tests of this species also occur in great 
abundance in some of the thin slices of the core from the deep 
boring at Funafuti carried out by Prof. Edgeworth David. 
The remains of this species sometimes constitute quite an appre- 
ciable amount of the rock. 
Cancarina, d’ Orbiyny | 1826 |. 
CaLCARINA HISPIDA, Brady, var. PULCHELLA, nov. (Pl. 1. 
fig. 10.) 
“Calcarma distinguished by unusual exuberance of spinous outgrowths,” 
Carpenter, 1862, Introd. Foram. p. 217, figs. xxxiii A & B, fies. xxxiv 
D, E, F, G. 
Many of the specimens of C. hispida from Funafuti differ 
considerably from Brady’s type-specimens*. ‘The shell-wall is 
more delicate, and the spurs are slenderer, with exuberant out- 
growths at the extremities, whilst they are decorated with longer 
spines than usual. This variation gives to the test a light plumose 
appearance. In point of size the variety equals the type. The 
specimens which Dr. Carpenter figured were from the Philippines. 
C. hispida var. pulchella occurs with frequency both in the 
Beach Sand, “‘ South Island” (Avalau Islet), and in the Ist 
boring at Funafuti, “at no great depth ” (Sollas, 1896). 
Subfamily TrNopoRiIn 2. 
PotytremMa, isso [1826]. 
[The members of this genus are often so like minute branching 
corals and polyzoa, and in one instance resembling externally 
certain calcareous alge, that even at the present time they may 
* Calcarina hispida, Brady, 1876, Proc. R. Irish Acad. ser. 2, vol. ii. p. 590. 
C. calcar, VOrb., var. hispida, Brady, Carter, 1880, Ann, Mag. Nat. Hist. 
ser. 5, vol. vi. p. 4598. 
C. hispida, Brady, 1884, Rep. Chall. vol. ix. p. 715, pl. eviil. figs. 8, 9. 
