Habitat.—Fossil in Barbados.
Subgenus 2. Lychnocanissa, Haeckel.
Definition.—Feet divergent, more or less curved; their terminal distance greater than their basal distance.
9. Lychnocanium fortipes, n. sp. (Pl. [61], fig. 12).
Shell inflated, rough, with distinct collar stricture. Length of the two joints = 1 : 5, breadth = 1 : 6. Cephalis small, hemispherical, with a pyramidal horn of half the length. Thorax subglobular, truncate, twice as broad as the constricted mouth, with large, regular, circular pores and very thin bars. Three feet very stout, prismatic, twice as long as the thorax, widely divergent, curved with convexity outwards, club-shaped at the distal end, with denticulate edges.
Dimensions.—Cephalis 0.02 long, 0.02 broad; thorax 0.1 long, 0.12 broad.
Habitat.—Equatorial Atlantic, Station 347, depth 2250 fathoms.
10. Lychnocanium falciferum, Ehrenberg.
Lychnocanium falciferum, Ehrenberg, 1854, Mikrogeol., Taf. xxxvi. fig. 7; Abhandl. d. k. Akad. d. Wiss. Berlin, p. 78, Taf. viii. fig. 4.
Lithomelissa falcifera, Haeckel, 1862, Monogr. d. Radiol., p. 303.