9. Haliomma datura, n. sp.
Cortical shell thin walled, only one and a half times as broad as the medullary shell, both having regular, circular pores, four to six times as broad as the bars (five to six on the radius of the outer, three to four on the radius of the inner shell), the two connected by numerous (forty to sixty?) thin, short, radial beams. Radial spines conical, twice as long as the diameter of one cortical pore, arising from all the nodal-points between them.
Dimensions.—Diameter of the outer shell 0.08 to 0.12, inner 0.06 to 0.08; pores of the former 0.015 to 0.02, of the latter 0.007 to 0.012; length of the spines 0.02.
Habitat.—Central Pacific, Stations 268 to 274, surface.
Subgenus 2. Haliommetta, Haeckel.
Definition.—Pores of the cortical shell regular, of nearly equal size and similar form; the spines not covering the entire surface, but scattered at intervals (their number smaller than that of the nodal-points of the network).
10. Haliomma circumtextum, n. sp. (Pl. [28], figs. 7, 7a).
Cortical shell very delicate, with thin thread-like bars, and regular, hexagonal pores, little larger than the thick-walled medullary shell (= 7 : 6). Pores of the latter regular, circular, double-edged, with hexagonal frames, of the same breadth as the bars; from all the hexagon-corners arise thin bristle-shaped, radial spines, twice as long as the diameter of the pores, becoming connected at equal distances from the centre by tangential threads, regularly disposed, forming the cortical shell. Twelve strong, three-sided pyramidal, radial spines, as broad at the base as one mesh, and about half as long as the radius of the shell.
Dimensions.—Diameter of the outer shell 0.14, of the inner 0.12; pores of the former 0.012, of the latter 0.005; length of the radial spines 0.04, basal breadth 0.012.
Habitat.—Central Pacific, Station 271, depth 2425 fathoms.