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This species was also described from the coral area around 
Cuba. 
Lagoon, Funafuti; very rare. Sample 18 (74 fathoms). 
BILOcULINA RINGENS (Lamarck). 
Miliohites ringens, Lamarck, 1804, Ann. du Muséum, vol. y. p. 351 ; 
vol. ix. pl. xvii. fig. 1. 
Liloculina ringens (Lam.), Egger, 1893, Abhandl. bayer. Akad. Wiss., 
math.-phys, Cl. ii. vol. xviii. p. 220, pl. i. figs. 7-9. 
B. ringens (Lam.), Millett, 1898, Journ. R. Micr. Soc. p. 262. 
B. ringens (Lam.), Flint, 1899, Rep. U.S. National Mus. (1897) p. 294, 
pl. 39. fig. 2. 
A widely distributed species both geographically and as regards 
depth of water. Millett found it generally distributed in the 
gatherings from the Malay Archipelago. 
Lagoon, Funafuti; very rare. Sample 18 (73 fathoms). 
Sprrotocurina, d’Orbiqny [1826]. 
SPIROLOCULINA ROBUSTA, Brady. 
Spiroloculina robusta, Brady, 1884, Rep. Chall. vol. ix. p. 150,fpl. ix. 
figs. 7, 8. 
S. robusta, Brady, Flint, 1899, Rep. U.S. Nat. Mus. (1897) p. 296, 
pl. 42. fig. 1. 
This species was found by Dr. Brady in the dredgings near 
Culebra Island, West Indies, at a depth of 390 fathoms. The 
specimen from Funafuti is characteristic but small. 
Lagoon, Funafuti; very rare. Sample 18 (74 fathoms). 
SPIROLOCULINA EXCAVATA, d’Orbigny. 
Sprroloculina excavata, V@Orbigny, 1846, Foram. Foss. Vienne, p. 271, 
pl. xvi. figs. 19-21. 
S. excavata, VOrb., Rupert Jones, 1895, Pal. Soc. Mon., Crag Foram. 
p. 106, pl. v. fig. 2; woodcuts, figs. 2 a, b. 
S. excavata, VOrb., Millett, 1898, Journ. R. Micr. Soc. p. 264. 
S. excavata, dOrb., Flint, 1899, Rep. U.S. Nat. Mus. (1897) p. 296, 
pl. 41. fig. 5. 
Our specimen is small and very thin-shelled, somewhat 
resembling S. impressa, Terquem, but quite regular in shape. 
Lagoon, Funafuti; very rare. Sample 14 (16 fathoms). 
