Proportion of the longer axis of the ellipsoid to the shorter = 4 : 3. Network of the thin wall delicate and regular. All the pores of the same size and form, circular, with a hexagonal frame, twice to three times as broad as the bars; eight to ten on the half equator. Surface smooth or slightly spiny.
Dimensions.—Longer axis of the ellipsoid 0.12 to 0.13, shorter axis 0.09 to 0.1; pores 0.013, bars 0.005.
Habitat.—Pacific, central area. Station 274, surface.
3. Cenellipsis ehrenbergii, Haeckel.
Haliomma (?) cenosphæra, Ehrenberg, 1875, Abhandl. d. k. Akad. d. Wiss. Berlin, p. 74, Taf xxvi. fig. 5.
Proportion of the longer axis to the shorter = 2 : 1. Network of the thin wall regular or subregular. All pores circular, nearly of the same size, without hexagonal frame, three to four times as broad as the bars; eight to nine on the half equator. Surface covered with small thorns.
Dimensions.—Longer axis of the ellipsoid 0.16 to 0.2, shorter axis 0.08 to 0.1; pores 0.1, bars 0.003.
Habitat.—Fossil in the Tertiary rocks of Barbados (Ehrenberg, Haeckel).
4. Cenellipsis circopora, n. sp.
Proportion of the longer axis to the shorter = 5 : 3. Network of the thin wall delicate and regular. All pores circular, nearly of the same size, without hexagonal frame, twice as broad as the bars; fifteen to twenty on the half equator. Surface quite smooth.