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made during the voyage ; and, setting aside a single broken shell from the South 
Pacific, I have only detected surface- specimens in the mountings from four localities, 
all of which are in the Atlantic, within a few degrees of the equator. 
Splicer oidina dehiscens was obtained by Schwager from the Pliocene deposits of Ear 
Nicobar, and this appears to be the only record of its occurrence in the fossil state. 
Candeina, d’Orbigny. 
Candeina, d’Orbigny [1839], Carpenter, Norman, Brady. 
The genus Candeina was founded by d’Orbigny upon specimens obtained from shore- 
sands collected in the West Indies by M. Ferdinand de Candd 
The test in its typical condition assumes the form of a somewhat elevated turbinoid 
spire, composed of subglobular segments ; and its distinctive peculiarity is furnished by 
the aperture, which consists of a number of pores arranged in lines along the sutural 
depressions of both the superior and inferior surface. D’Orbigny appends to his 
description of the genus the following note indicating the points in which it differs from 
the allied types of Foraminifera : — “ Par ses loges globuleuses spheriques, ce genre a du 
rapport avec les Globigerina; neanmoins nous avons du l’en separer en raison de sa 
contexture vitreuse, brillante, non rugueuse et perforee, de sa spire plus allongee, plus 
reguliere, et surtout cl’un caractere unique jusqu’a present parmi les coquilles turbinees 
vivantes, caractere qui consiste dans le grand nombre d’ouvertures de sa derniere loge.” 1 
Dr. Carpenter appears to have based his account of the genus upon d’Orbigny’s 
figures rather than on the study of actual specimens ; and, misled by the superficial 
resemblance to some varieties of Verneuilina, has treated it as a sub-genus of Textularia, 
at the same time questioning “whether its distinctive modification is of more than 
varietal importance.” 2 
The minuter characters of the type will be best considered in connection with the 
single species, Candeina nitida. 
Candeina nitida, d’Orbigny (PL LXXXII. figs. 13-20). 
Candeina nitida, d’Orbigny, 1839, Foram. Cuba, p. Ill, pi. ii. figs. 27, 28 (“Modele, No. 105.”) 
,, ,, Id. 1846, For. Foss. Vien., p. 193, pi. xxi. fig. 28. 
,, „ Norman, 1876, Proc. Roy. Soc., vol. xxv. p. 215. 
,, ,, Brady, 1879, Quart. Journ. Micr. Sci., vol. xix., N. S., p. 77. 
The test of Candeina nitida is thus described by the discoverer of the species : — 
“ Coquille tres elevee, conique, lisse, brillante, translucide. Spire saillante, conique, 
composee de cinq tours et formee de treize ou quatorze loges. Loges spheriques tres 
separees, au nombre de trois a chaque tour, toujours regulierement placdes les unes 
1 Foram. Cuba (French ed.\ p. 108. 2 Introd. Foram., p. 192. 
