FORAMINIFERA OF THE FUNAFUTI ATOLL. 395 
CARPENTERIA RHAPHIDODENDRON, Mobius. (Pl. 35. fig. 2.) 
? Polytrema brunnescens, J. D. Dana, 1849, U.S. Exploring Exped., 
Atlas Zoophytes, p. 707, pl. 61. fig. 3. 
Rhaphidodendron album, Mobius, 1876, Tageblatt der 49 Versammlung 
deutscher Naturforscher und Aerzte in Hamburg, p. 115. 
Carpenteria rhaphidodendron, Mobius, 1880, Beitrige zur Meeresfauna 
der Insel Mauritius und der Seychellen, Berlin, p. 81, pl. v. figs. 6-10, 
pl. vi. fig. 1-6. 
It is possible that the specimen which Dana described as “ pale 
brownish, thick incrusting, cavernous, surface gibbous, lacerate 
and very irregular,” is a young specimen of the above species. 
Since the full-grown form has been so admirably figured and 
described by Mobius from Mauritius, it is unnecessary to further 
disturb the nomenclature by substituting Dana’s name. 
This species is very much in evidence in certain parts of the 
core obtained from Funafuti, where it sometimes constitutes 
thick layers between the ordinary foraminiferal sand and reef- 
rock. More often, however, it is represented only by fragments 
broken down to a more or less uniform size, as though by the 
agency of browsing animals. 
C. rhaphidodendron appears to be most at home in depths 
between 63 and 80 fathoms. 
CARPENTERIA SERIALIS, sp. nov. (Pl. 35. fig. 3.) 
Test hyaline, somewhat glassy or polished in texture, consisting 
of more or less numerous chambers sometimes shaped like a 
calabash or water-pot with a distinctly spouted aperture placed 
a little eccentrically, at others of a combination of flask and 
long cylindrical spout. The apertures, in fresh specimen, 
armed with sponge-spicules. Chambers arranged in roughly 
linear fashion or in a meandering series. Adherent to reef-rock. 
Diameter of the chambers at their base 1—2°25 millim. Diameter 
of aperture about °3 millim. This organism appears at first 
sight to bear a deceptive resemblance to certain forms of 
Polyzoa. 
Found at Tutanga, 200 fathoms. Frequent. 
