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

Definition.—Mouth of the thorax flat or truncate, without prominent ring-like peristome.

12. Dictyocephalus obtusus, Ehrenberg.

Dictyocephalus obtusus, Ehrenberg, 1860, Monatsber. d. k. preuss. Akad. d. Wiss. Berlin, p. 830.

Lophophæna obtusa, Ehrenberg, 1854, Mikrogeol., Taf. xxii. fig. 40.

Cornutella obtusa, Ehrenberg, 1844, Monatsber. d. k. preuss. Akad. d. Wiss. Berlin, p. 877.

Dictyocephalus obtusus, Haeckel, 1862, Monogr. d. Radiol., p. 296.

Shell smooth, thick-walled, with distinct collar stricture. Length of the two joints = 5 : 6, breadth = 4 : 5. Cephalis ovate, little smaller than the subcylindrical thorax. Pores subregular, circular, of little different sizes. Mouth truncate, without ring-like peristome.

Dimensions.—Cephalis 0.05 long, 0.04 broad; thorax 0.06 long, 0.05 broad.

Habitat.—Fossil in Tertiary rocks of Sicily (Caltanisetta), Grotte, &c.

13. Dictyocephalus globiceps, n. sp. (Pl. [62], fig. 7).