Cortical shell composed of six kidney-shaped chambers of nearly the same size and structure; every chamber twice as broad as long, with four to five transverse rows of irregular, roundish pores, once to four times as broad as the bars. Both medullary shells lenticular. Surface of the cortical shell covered with bristle-like spines. On both poles of the main axis one larger, strong, conical spine, about half as long as this axis, and on the base as broad as the inner medullary shell. (Resembles on the whole Desmartus larvalis, Pl. [40], fig. 12, but without external mantle, and with two solid polar spines instead of the polar tubes.)

Dimensions.—Length of the six-chambered cortical shell 0.24; greatest breadth of each chamber 0.08; pores 0.002 to 0.08, bars 0.002; length of the polar spines 0.12, basal thickness 0.02.

Habitat.—Pacific, central area, Station 266, depth 2750 fathoms.

Genus 170. Ommatartus,[[209]] Haeckel, 1881, Prodromus, p. 463.

Definition.—Zygartida with simple cortical shell and double medullary shell, with two hollow fenestrated tubes, opposite on both poles of the main axis.

The genus Ommatartus differs from Ommatocampe by the development of two hollow fenestrated tubes on both poles of the main axis, and bears therefore the same relation to it as Cannartidium to Cyphonium. The former two genera differ from the two latter by the augmentation of the chambers of the cortical shell.

1. Ommatartus amphicanna, n. sp.

Cortical shell with spiny surface, composed of six chambers of equal size and kidney-shaped; every chamber with four to five transverse rows of irregular, roundish pores, twice to three times as broad as the bars. Both medullary shells lenticular. Polar tubes conical, about as long as one chamber, with smaller pores. Both medullary shells spheroidal, more or less compressed. (Resembles Desmartus larvalis, Pl. [40], fig. 12, but is without the external shell.)

Dimensions.—Length of the six-chambered cortical shell 0.24; greatest breadth of each chamber 0.07; pores 0.008 to 0.012, bars 0.004; length of the polar tubes 0.04 to 0.05, basal thickness 0.02.

Habitat.—Pacific, central area, Stations 270 to 274, depth 2350 to 2925 fathoms.