Recent Foraminifera off the East Coast of Australia. 



Sub-Kingdom PROTOZOA. 



Class RHIZOPODA. 



Order FORAMINIFERA (RETICULARIA). 



Family MILIOLID.E. 



Sub-family Nubeeularinae. 



Nuhccidaria Defrance. 



Nuhecularia tibia Jones and Parker. (PI. I, fig. 1.) 



Nuhecularia tibia Jones and Parker,-1860, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xvi, 



p. 455, pi. XX, figs. 48-51. 

 N. tibia Millett, 1898, etc., 1898, Eept. Rec. Foram. Malay Archipelago, 



Journ. Roy. Micr. Soc, p. 261, pi. v, fig. 3. 



Tragments occur consisting of from one to three segments. 

 A solitary translucent specimen has the initial chamber attached. 

 See illustration and jVTillett's remarks in the above reference under 

 Articulina conico-articulata Batsch. 



Sub-family Miliolinae. 

 Biloculina d'Orbigny. 



Biloculina de/pressa d'Orbigny, 



Biloculina depressa d'Orbigny, 1826, Ann. Sci Nat., vol. vii, p. 298, No. 7. 

 B. depressa d'Orbigny, Brady, 1884, Chall. Rept., p. 145, pi. ii, figs. 12, 15-17 ; 

 pi. iii, figs. 1, 2. 



The orifice, in some of the tests, is a long slit, in others it is 

 oval and at the end of a short neck, 



Biloculina depressa, var. murrhyna Schwager. 



Biloculina murrliyna Schwager, 1866, Novara-Exped. Geol. Theil, vol. ii, 



p. 203, pi. vi, fig. 15 a-G. 

 B. depressa, var. murrliyna, Brady, 1884, Chall. Rept., p. 146, pi. ii, figs. 



10, 11. 



A solitary example. The basal spines are not pronounced. 



Biloculina lievis (Def ranee), 



Pyrgo Iwvis Defrance, 1824, Diet. Sci. Nat., vol. xxxii, p. 273, Atlas, 



pi, Ixxxviii, fig. 2, 

 Biloculina Ictvis, Brady, 1884, Chall. Rept., p. 146, pi. ii, figs, 18, 14. 



The specimens are of the "depressa" type. The subsidiary 

 keel is not well developed. 



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