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SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
Class: RHIZOPODA. 
Order: SYEIN G OSPUAUlIBuE. 
Genus: SYEINGOSPKffiRXA. 
Species Syringosph^eria verrucosa. 
„ S. MONTICULARIA. 
„ S. TUBERCULATA. 
„ S. POROSA. 
„ S. PLANA. 
Variety S. monticularia var. aspera. 
Genus : STOLICZKARIA. 
Species Stoliczkaria granulata. 
III. A DESCRIPTION OF THE GENERA SyRINGOSPHjERIA AND StOLICZKARIA OF TIIE ORDEl 1 
S YRINGOSPI1JER1D.E. 
Order : SYRINGOSPH^ERIDAL 
Body free, spherical or spheroidal in shape, consisting of numbers of limited, more of 
less conical, radiating congeries of minute, continuous, long, bifurcating and inosculating 
tubes ; also of an interradial close or open tube reticulation arising from and surrounding 
the radial congeries. Tubes opening at the surface on eminences and in pores, and ramify' 
ing over it. Tubes minute, consisting of a wall of granular and granulospiculate carbonate 
of lime. Coenenchyma absent. 
The presence of pores on the surface of some forms of the order, and their absence n 1 
others, and the very close nature of the interradial reticulation in the poreless kinds, necessi- 
tates its division into two genera. 
Genus : S YRIN GOSPHiERI A. 
Body large, symmetrical, nearly spherical or oblately spheroidal, covered with large com- 
pound wart-like prominences with intermediate verrucosities, or with compound monticule 9 
having rounded summits, with solitary eminences between them, or with close broadly round- 
ed tubercles, or with minute granulations. Rounded, or oblique, or linear depressions occur 
on the surface usually between the eminences, hut sometimes upon them ; they are shallot 
and are bounded by tubes, some of which open on their floor. The surface has tubes opening 
on it from the internal radial series, and also from the interradial tube reticulation ; 
