Dimensions.—Diameter of the shell 0.24, pores 0.006 to 0.012, bars 0.002; length of the main spines 0.1, basal breadth 0.012.

Habitat.—North Pacific, Station 256, surface.

13. Heliosphæra elector, n. sp.

Shell thick walled, with irregular, roundish pores, twice to three times as broad as the bars; eight to ten on the radius. Twenty main spines, three-sided pyramidal, somewhat longer than the radius and four times as long as the short bristle-shaped by-spines.

Dimensions.—Diameter of the shell 0.12, pores 0.005 to 0.01, bars 0.003; length of the main spines 0.08, basal breadth 0.01.

Habitat.—South Atlantic, Station 325, surface.

14. Heliosphæra solaris, n. sp.

Shell thick walled, with irregular, roundish pores, about the same breadth as the bars; six to eight on the radius. Fifty to eighty main spines, conical, as long as the radius; by-spines very numerous, also conical, but only as large as one pore.

Dimensions.—Diameter of the shell 0.15, pores and bars 0.006 to 0.008; length of the main spines 0.08, basal breadth 0.012.

Habitat.—Central Pacific, Station 268, depth 2900 fathoms.