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254 7. Actinomma denticulatum, n. sp. (Pl. 29, fig. 3).

Cortical shell thick walled, with regular, circular, double-edged pores, twice as broad as the bars. Forty to fifty radial spines, three-sided pyramidal, half as long as the radius, with three elegantly denticulated edges. Radial proportion of the three spheres = 1 : 2 : 5. (Differs from Haliomma denticulatum only in the double medullary shell and larger size.)

Dimensions.—Diameter of the outer shell 0.14, middle 0.06, inner 0.03; cortical pores 0.01, bars 0.005; length of the spines 0.04, basal breadth 0.01.

Habitat.—Central Pacific, Station 271, depth 2425 fathoms.

8. Actinomma trinacrium, Haeckel.

Actinomma trinacrium, Haeckel, 1862, Monogr. d. Radiol., p. 441, Taf. xxiv. figs. 6-8.

Haliomma trinacrium, Haeckel, 1860, Monatsber. d. k. preuss. Akad. d. Wiss. Berlin, p. 815.

Cortical shell as well as both medullary shells thin walled, with subregular, circular pores, twice as broad as the bars. Radial proportion of the three spheres = 1 : 3 : 9; radial beams between them twenty, prolonged outside into strong, three-sided pyramidal spines, as long as the radius; between them, on the surface, numerous similar spines. Sometimes the latter remain smaller, the pores more irregular, and then this species corresponds to Echinomma trinacrium.

Dimensions.—Diameter of the outer shell 0.09, middle 0.03, inner 0.01; cortical pores 0.008, bars 0.004; length of the spines 0.04, basal breadth 0.01.

Habitat.—Mediterranean (Messina, Corfu, Haeckel), surface.

9. Actinomma pachyderma, n. sp. (Pl. 29, figs. 4, 5).

Cortical shell very thick walled, with regular, circular, double-edged pores, twice as broad as the bars. Both medullary shells with simple, small, circular pores, of the same breadth as the bars. Radial proportion of the three spheres = 1 : 2 : 4; radial spines about twenty, conical, shorter than the radius, prolonged inside into twenty very thin connecting beams (fig. 4).

Dimensions.—Diameter of the outer shell 0.08, middle 0.04, inner 0.02; cortical pores 0.01; bars 0.005; length of the spines 0.03, basal breadth 0.01.

Habitat.—South Pacific, Station 297, depth 1775 fathoms.

Definition.—Pores of the cortical shell irregular, of different size and form; spines over the entire surface (commonly one spine at each nodal-point).

10. Actinomma spinigerum, Stöhr.

Actinomma spinigerum, Stöhr, 1880, Palæontogr., vol. xxvi. p. 92, Taf. ii. fig. 10.

Cortical shell thick walled, with irregular, roundish, or subcircular pores, twice to four times as broad as the bars. Radial proportion of the three spheres = 1 : 3 : 8; between them eight (?)