Phacoid shell three times as broad as the medullary shell, with eight pores on its radius. Arms nearly trapezoidal, somewhat longer than the diameter of the central disk, at the truncated distal end nearly as broad, at the base only half as broad. In each arm eleven to twelve transverse rows of square chambers, each of which exhibits on the surface one large pore. Patagium enveloping the basal half of the arms, with four to five convex rows of chambers, forming together a circular concentric disk.
Dimensions.—Diameter of the phacoid shell 0.11, of the medullary shell 0.035; length of the arms 0.12, basal breadth 0.05, distal breadth 0.1.
Habitat.—Western Tropical Pacific, Station 225, depth 4475 fathoms.
2. Hymenactura pythagoræ, Haeckel.
Hymeniastrum pythagoræ, Ehrenberg, 1854, Mikrogeol., Taf. xxxvi. fig. 31; Abhandl. d. k. Akad. d. Wiss. Berlin, 1875, p. 76, Taf. xxx. fig. 5.
Phacoid shell three times as broad as the medullary shell, with six pores on its radius. Arms nearly trapezoidal, somewhat longer than the diameter of the central disk, at the truncated distal end nearly as broad, at the base two-thirds as broad. In each arm eight to nine transverse rows of square chambers, each chamber with one pore on the surface. Patagium enveloping the basal half of the arms, with four to five rectilinear parallel rows of chambers, forming together a regular triangle. Differs from the preceding species mainly in the quite different structure of the patagium, from the true Hymeniastrum pythagoræ in the phacoid shell of the central disk, which encloses only one simple medullary shell.
Dimensions.—Diameter of the phacoid shell 0.11, of the medullary shell 0.04; length of the arms 0.13, basal breadth 0.07, distal breadth 0.12.
Habitat.—Fossil in the rocks of Barbados.
3. Hymenactura trigona, n. sp.
Astromma sp., Bury, 1862, Polycystins of Barbados, pl. xv. fig. 1.