Recent and Fossil Foram/inifera, 435 



135. Polymorphina regina Brady, Parker, and Jones. 



Polymorphina regina Brady, Parker, and Jones, 1870, Trans. Linn. Soc. Load., 

 vol. xxvii. p. 241, pi. xli. fig. 32 a, b. 



Polymorphina semicostata Marsson, 1878, Mitth. Nat. Ver. Neu-Yorpornmern 

 u. Kugen, Jahrg., x. p. 150, pi. ii. fig. 19. 



Polymorphina regina (Brady, Parker, and Joues) Brady, 1884, Foram. ' Chal- 

 lenger,' p. 571, pi. lxxiii. figs. 11-13. 



Ditto. (Brady, Parker, and Jones) var. Wright, 1886, Proc. Belfast Nat. 

 Field Club, 1884-5, App. ix. p. 331, pi. xxvii. figs. 13, 14. 



Ditto. (Brady, Parker, and Jones) Earland, 1905, Journ. Quekett Micr. 

 Club, ser. 2, vol. ix. No. 57, p. 217. 



Many specimens, all well denned ; some fossil, others, to all 

 appearances, recent. The distribution, with the exception of 

 Eaiiand's record from the Bognor shore-sands, is confined to 

 tropical and sub-tropical shallow water. Fossil records are ap- 

 parently confined to the Chalk, but our specimens are certainly not 

 Cretaceous, being probably derived from Tertiary sands and clays. 



136. Polymorphina spinosa d'Orbigny sp. 

 (Plate XVII. fig. 9.) 



Globulina spinosa d'Orbigny, 1846, For. Foss. Yienne, p. 230, pi. xiii. 



figs. 23, 24. 

 Polymorphina spinosa (d'Orbigny) Brady, Parker, and Jones, 1870, Trans. 



Linn. Soc. Lond., vol. xxvii. p. 243, pi. xlii. figs. 36 «, b. 

 Ditto. (d'Orbigny) Siddall, 1878, Proc. Chester Soc. Nat. Sci., pt. ii. p. 48. 

 Ditto. (d'Orbigny) Balkwill and Wright, 1885, Trans. K. Irish Acad. 



(Science), vol. xxviii. p. 347, pi. xii. fig. 27. 

 Ditto. (d'Orbigny) Brady, 1887, Synopsis British Becent Foraminifera. 



Many fossils, and one very fine specimen which is almost cer- 

 tainly recent. The fossils vary considerably in the abundance and 

 size of the spines, and have the appearance of being derived from 

 a Tertiary shell-sand. The species has been recorded in the recent 

 state by Siddall from the estuary of the Dee, and by Balkwill and 

 Wright from the Irish Sea (supra). It has also been recently 

 found by Earland in the Moray Firth. 



137. Polymorphina hirsuta Brady, Parker, and Jones. 



(Plate XVII. fig. 7.) 



Polymorphina hirsuta Brady, Parker, and Jones, 1870, Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 Lond., vol. xxvii. p. 243, pi. xlii. fig. 37. 



One specimen, probably fossil, well marked and typical. The 

 separation of this form from P. spinosa (d'Orbigny) is somewhat 



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