Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, Second Part: Subclass Osculosa; Index / Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-76, Vol. XVIII

by Ernst Haeckel

Habitat.—Western Tropical Pacific, Station 225, depth 4475 fathoms.

3. Desmospyris anthocyrtoides, Haeckel.

Petalospyris anthocyrtoides, Bütschli, 1882, Zeitschr. f. wiss. Zool., vol. xxxvi. pp. 533, 539, Taf. xxxii. fig. 19, a-c.

Shell tuberculate, with slight sagittal and sharp collar strictures. Pores subregular, circular. Cephalis nut-shaped, larger than the short truncate thorax. Coronet with fifteen to twenty short conical, parallel and vertical feet, about as long as the thorax.

Dimensions.—Cephalis 0.06 long, 0.09 broad; thorax 0.02 long, 0.07 broad.

Habitat.—Fossil in Barbados.

4. Desmospyris carpocanium, n. sp.

Shell smooth, with slight sagittal and slight collar strictures. Pores subregular, circular, small and numerous. Cephalis campanulate, smaller than the ovate thorax. Coronet with fifteen to twenty irregular lamellar feet, which are longer than the thorax, pointed, nearly vertical and parallel.

Dimensions.—Cephalis 0.05 long, 0.08 broad; thorax 0.07 long, 0.1 broad.

Habitat.—South Pacific, Station 298, depth 2225 fathoms.