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PxJLLENiA SPH^EOIDES, Ooes, 1882. K. Sv. Ak. Handi., vol. xix, No. 4, p. 104, 



pi. viii, figs. 248—250. 



— — Brady, 1884. Eeport ' Challenger,' p. 615, pi. Ixxxiv, 



figs. 12, 13 ; p. 616, cut, fig. 18. 



— BULLOIDES, Andreae, 1884. Abh. Greol. Sp.-Kart. Elsass-Loth., vol. ii, 



pt. 3, p. 206, pi. ix, fig. 23. 



— — Balkwill and Wright, 1885. Trans. E. Irish Acad. (Sci.) 



pp. 348 and 362, pi. xii, figs. 28 a, b. 



— — Skerborn and Chapman, 1886. Journ. B. Micr. Soc, ser. 2, 



vol. vi, p. 756, pi. xvi, figs. 10 a, b. 



— — Sfeinmann, 1888. Elem. Paleont., vol. i, p. 32, fig. 16. 



— SPH^ROIDES, B., p., and J., 1888. Trans. Zool. Soc, vol. xii, pt. 7, 



p. 226, pi. xliii, figs. 21 and 24. 



— — Terrigi, 1891. Mem. E. Com. Geol. Ital., vol. iv, p. 104, 



pi. iv, fig. 5. 



— — Egger, 1893. Abhandl. k. Bayer. Ak. Wiss., vol. xviii, 



part 2, p. 372, pi. xix, figs. 30, 31. 



— — Goes, 1894. K. Sv. Vet.-Ak. Handl., vol. xxv, No. 9, 



p. 87, pi. xiv, figs. 771, 772. 



— — Fornasini, 1894. Foram. Coll. Soldani, Sagg. Oritt.. 



p. 17. 



— — Egger, 1895. Jaliresb. xvi, Nat. Ver. Passau, p. 39, 



pi. iv, figs. 21 a, b. 



Characters. — Shell small, subglobular, and like Nonionina. in shape ; chambers 

 convex, four or five in each of the three or four whorls, each of which completely 

 invests the previous whorl. The septal face arched, narrow, and bearing the long, 

 transverse, crescentic, slit-like aperture in the under part of the chamber. 

 Surface smooth, and suture slightly depressed. Figs. 31, 32, in PI. II, are fairly 

 typical. 



Occurrence. — Pullenia sphseroides is a cosmopolitan species ; most commonly 

 met with at depths exceeding 300 fathoms. Specimens have been found as low 

 down as 2750 fathoms. The list of localities at which this Foraminifer has been 

 taken are thus given in the ' Challenger ' report : — Davis' Strait, Novaya Zemlya, 

 East Coast of Norway, Faroe Channel, British Seas, Mediterranean, Red Sea, 

 North and South Atlantic, Southern Ocean, and the South and North Pacific. 



An examination of material collected by H.M.SS. ' Stork ' and ' Penguin ' 

 enables us to add to the above list five stations in the Indian Ocean (1040 — 2694 

 fathoms). 



The geological range of the species extends to the Cretaceous period. It has 

 been found in the Chalk of Westphalia and Ireland, in the Eocene (London Clay), 

 in the Oligocene of Elsass and Germany, in the Miocene of Vienna, Malaga, the 

 Banat (Karrer), and Malta (Brady), and in the PHocene of Italy and Garrucha. 



