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shores and also in the Adriatic. The Challenger specimens are almost exclusively from 
deep bottoms, namely: — from the North Atlantic, 1750 fathoms; South Atlantic, 2200 
fathoms and 2350 fathoms; Southern Ocean, 1570 fathoms; South Pacific, seven 
Stations, 620 to 2600 fathoms ; and North Pacific, 345 fathoms. 
Fossil examples are recorded from the Septaria-clays of Germany (Peuss), the Miocene 
of Transylvania (Nengeboren), and of Malta (Brady), as well as from some later Tertiary 
formations. 
Nodosaria subtertenuata, Schwager (PI. LXII. figs. 7, 8). 
Nodosaria subtertenuata, Schwager, 1866, Novara-Exped., geol. Theil, vol. ii. p. 235, pi. vi. 
fig. 74. 
This is a sub- varietal modification of the straight Nodosarian type, with distinct elliptical 
segments, the earlier segments being relatively small, and the surface of the shell rough or 
slightly aculeate. 
The recent specimens are from the Ki Islands, 129 fathoms. 
Those originally figured by Schwager were fossils from the Upper Pliocene formation 
of the Nicobar Islands. 
Nodosaria ( D .) retrorsa, Reuss (PL LXIII. fig. 7). 
Dentalina retrorsa, Reuss, 1863, Sitzungsb. d. k. Ak. Wiss. Wien, vol. xlviii. p. 46, pi. iii. 
fig. 27. 
A slender Dentaline variety, with elongate-oval or fusiform segments, the basal ends 
of which are armed with a small number of delicate spines. 
Habitat, off the Ki Islands, 580 fathoms. 
The specimens described by Reuss were fossils from the Septaria-elay of Offenbach in 
Germany. 
Nodosaria hispida, d’Orbigny (PI. LXIII. figs. 12-16). 
“ Orthoceratia quasi hispida ,” Soldani, 1798, Testaceograpkia, vol. ii. p. 15, pi. ii. fig. P. 
“ Orthoceratia hispida,” Id. Ibid. p. 36, pi. xi. figs. n-z. A. B. 
Nodosaria hirsuta, d’Orbigny, 1826, Ann. Sci. Nat., vol. vii. p. 252, No. 7 (fide d’Orbigny). 
„ hispida, Id. 1846, For. Foss. Yien., p. 35, pi. i. figs. 24, 25. 
,, aculeata, Id. Ibid. p. 35, pi. i. figs. 26, 27. 
Dentalina floscula, Id. Ibid. p. 50, pi. ii. figs. 16, 17. 
Nodosaria conspurcata, Reuss, 1851, Zeitschr. d. deutsch. geol. Gesellscli., vol. iii. p. 59, pi. iii. 
fig. 3. 
,, asperula, Neugeboren, 1852, Verbandl. u. Mittb. siebenb. Vereins f. Naturw., 
-Tabrg. iii. p. 54, pi. i. figs. 40, 41. 
