Recent and Fossil Foranvimferar. 327 



60. Verneuilina polystropha Reuss sp. 



Bulimina polystropJia Reuss, 1845, Yerstein. bohm. Kreid., pt. ii. p. 109, pi. 



xxiv. fig. 53. 

 Bulimina scabra Williamson, 1858, Recent Foram. Gt. Britain, p. 65, pi. v. 



figs. 136, 137. 

 Bulimina arenacea. Ibid., p. 98. 

 Verneuilina polystropha (Reuss) Brady, 1884, Foram. 'Challenger,' p. 386, 



pi. xlvii. figs. 15-17. 

 Ditto. (Reuss) Brady, 1887, Synopsis British Recent Foraminifera. 

 Ditto. (Reuss) Goes, 1894, Arctic and Scandinavian Foram., p. 32, pi. vii. 



figs. 247-55. 



Fossil (?) and recent. All the specimens are of the large, 

 smoothly built, regular type, but they fall naturally into two dis- 

 tinct and well marked groups, one of a rich ferruginous brown, 

 due to the character of the cement with which the sand-grains are 

 built together ; the other, pale grey. The latter group is further 

 characterised by the inclusion of numerous grains of garnet, mag- 

 netite, and other minerals, giving them a very handsome appearance. 

 It is permissible to conjecture that these marked differences in 

 appearance are due to differences in the source of origin, and we 

 hope eventually to be able to trace the source from which the 

 pale specimens derive their material, and to ascertain whether 

 they are recent or fossil. 



Millett records, " rare." 



61. Verm nil i mi pygmsea Egger sp. 



Bulimina pygmxa Egger, 1857, Neues Jahrb. fur Min., etc., p. 284, pi. xii. 



figs. 10, 11. 

 Verneuilina pygmsea (Egger) Parker and Jones, 1863, Ann. and Mag. Nat. 



Hist., ser. 3, vol. xi. pp. 92, 98. 

 Textilaria triseriata Terquem, 1882, Mem. Soc. Geol. France, ser. 3, vol. ii. ; 



Mem. III. p. 145, pi. xv. fig. 10. 

 Verneuilina pygmsea (Egger) Brady, 1884, Foram. 'Challenger,' p. 385, pi. 



xlvii. figs. 4-7. 



Fossil. A single and typical specimen, possibly derived' from 

 the Chalk. 



62. Verneuilina spinulosa Reuss. 



Verneuilina svinulosa Reuss, 1849, Denkschr. d. k. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. i. 



pr374, pi. xlvii. fig. 12. 

 Ditto. (Reuss) Brady, 1870, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 4, vol. vi. p. 301, 



pi. xii. fig. 6. 

 Ditto. (Reuss) Terquem, 1882, Mem. Soc. Geol. France, ser. 3, vol. ii. ; 



Mem. III. p. 107, pi. xi. fig. 16, a. b. 

 Ditto. (Reuss) Brady, 1884, Foram. 'Challenger,' p. 384, pi. xlvii. 



figs. 1-3. 

 Ditto. (Reuss) Brady, 1887, Synopsis British Recent Foraminifera. 

 Ditto. (Reuss) Earland, 1905, Journ. Quekett Micr. Club, ser. 2, vol. ix. 



No. 57, p. 205. 



Fossil. Several specimens, apparently derived from different 

 sources. The species has, however, been recorded as recent from 



