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SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
Class: RHIZOPODA. 
Order; SYBINaOSPS^BIBJl. 
Genus : SYRINGOSPHiERIA. 
Species Syringosph^ria verrucosa. 
„ S. MONTICUUARIA. 
„ S. TUBERCULATA. 
„ S. POROSA. 
„ S. PLANA. 
Variety S. monticularia var. aspera. 
Genus : STOLICZKARIA. 
S])ecies Stoliczkaria granulata. 
III.—A DESCRIPTION OP THE GENERA SyrINGOSPBMRIA STOLICZKARIA OP THE ORDER 
S YRING OSPB^RIDJE. 
Order: SYRINGOSPHiERIDA]. 
Body free, spherical or spheroidal m shape, consisting of numbers of limited, more or 
less conical, radiating congeries of minute, continuous, long, bifurcating and inosculating 
tubes; also of an interradial close or ojien 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 in 
others, and the very close nature of the interradial reticulation in the poreless kinds, necessi¬ 
tates its division into two genera. 
Genus: SYRINGOSPHiERIA. 
Body large, symmetrical, nearly spherical or oblately spheroidal, covered with large com¬ 
pound Avart-like prominences with intermediate verrucosities, or with compound monticules 
iiaving rounded summits, Avith solitary eminences between them, or with close broadly round¬ 
ed tubercles, or Avith minute granulations. Bounded, or oblique, or linear depressions occur 
on the surface usually between the eminences, but sometimes upon them; they are shalloAA' 
and are bounded by tubes, some of which open on their floor. The smdace has tubes opening 
on it from the internal radial series, and also from the interradial tube reticulation; also 
