Shell nearly cubical, smooth, without external sagittal stricture. Internal sagittal ring complete. Pores small, roundish; on each side of the ring two crossed pairs of large, square, equal, annular pores. Basal plate also with four longer pores of nearly equal size.

Dimensions.—Shell 0.05 long, 0.07 broad.

Habitat.—Fossil in Barbados.

9. Dictyospyris tetrastoma, Ehrenberg.

Dictyospyris tetrastoma, Ehrenberg, 1875, Abhandl. d. k. Akad. d. Wiss. Berlin, p. 70, Taf. xix. fig. 12.

Shell nut-shaped, tuberculate, with slight sagittal stricture. Pores numerous, irregular, roundish. No larger annular pores. Basal plate with four large ovate collar pores (the two cardinal twice as large as the two jugular pores).

Dimensions.—Shell 0.05 long, 0.07 broad.

Habitat.—Cosmopolitan; Atlantic, Indian, Pacific; also fossil in Barbados and Sicily.

10. Dictyospyris spinulosa, Ehrenberg.

Dictyospyris spinulosa, Ehrenberg, 1875, Abhandl. d. k. Akad. d. Wiss. Berlin, p. 70, Taf. xix. fig. 13.