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.—Fossil in Barbados.

11. Pterocorys turgida, Haeckel.

Lychnocanium turgidum, Ehrenberg, 1885, Abhandl. d. k. Akad. d. Wiss. Berlin, p. 80, Taf. vii. fig. 6.

Shell thick-walled, pear-shaped, smooth, with sharp collar stricture. The lumbar stricture is not distinct externally, but is represented by a broad, internal, annular septum. Length of the three joints = 1 : 6 : 3, breadth = 2 : 7 : 6. Cephalis hemispherical, with a stout pyramidal horn of the same length. Thorax and abdomen together pear-shaped, inflated. Immediately above the lumbar stricture three stout, conical, lateral wings, as long as the cephalis, arise. Mouth very small, about as broad as the cephalis.

Dimensions.—Length of the three joints, a 0.02, b 0.12, c 0.06; breadth, a 0.03, b 0.13, c 0.12.

Habitat.—Fossil in Barbados.

Subgenus 2. Pterosyringium, Haeckel.

Definition.—Horn of the cephalis simple. Abdomen prolonged into a narrow cylindrical tube.

12. Pterocorys tubulosa, n. sp. (Pl. [68], fig. 6).

Pterosyringium tubulosum, Haeckel, 1879, Atlas, loc. cit.