Habitat.—Central Pacific, Station 295, depth 1500 fathoms.
9. Dictyomitra multicostata, Zittel.
Dictyomitra multicostata, Zittel, 1876, Zeitschr. d. deutsch. geol. Gesellsch., p. 81, Taf. ii. figs. 2-4.
Shell slender, conical, with prominent longitudinal ribs, and eight to ten deep strictures. Length and breadth of the joints gradually increasing, the eighth joint twice as long and broad as the fourth joint. Pores regular, circular, one series in each longitudinal furrow, three to four pores on each joint.
Dimensions.—Length of the shell (with eight joints) 0.2, of the fourth joint 0.02, of the eighth joint 0.04; breadth of the fourth joint 0.04, of the eighth 0.08.
Habitat.—Fossil in secondary rocks of North Germany (chalk of Brunswick, &c.), Zittel.
Genus 644. Stichocorys,[[261]] Haeckel, 1881, Prodromus, p. 438 (sensu emendato).
Definition.—Stichocorida (vel Stichocyrtida eradiata aperta) with a middle constriction of the shell, the upper half of which is conical, the lower cylindrical. Mouth truncate. Cephalis with a horn.
The genus Stichocorys is intermediate between the two preceding and the two following genera; the upper half of the shell with the three first joints is conical, the lower half with the fourth and the following joints cylindrical, of equal breadth. The third joint of the shell (or the abdomen of Theoconus) is constantly the largest, being broader than all the other joints. Stichocorys is a very common and characteristic form, and may be derived from Theoconus by development of a post-abdomen.
1. Stichocorys wolffii, n. sp. (Pl. [80], fig. 10).