SOME LITTORAL GATHERINGS. 139 



Archipelago are recorded by Alillett as having persistent characters 

 and occurring abundantly. 



M.H., rare and small, but otherwise typical. 



Pulvinulina punctulata, d'Orbigny sp. 



Rotalia punctulata, d'Orbigny, 1826, Ann. Sci. Nat., vol. vii., 

 p. 273, No. 25—Modele, No. 12. 



B., very rare and small. 



Pulvinulina elegans, d'Orbigny sp. 



Rotalia (Turbinulina) elegans, d'Orbigny, 1826, Ann. Sci. Nat., 

 vol. vii., p. 276, No. 54. 



B., rare, weak examples. 



Genus Rotalia, Lamarck. 

 Rotalia beccarii, Linne sp. 



Nautilus beccarii, Linne, 1767, Syst. Nat., 12th ed., p. 1162; 



1788, ibid., 13th (Gmelin's) ed., p. 3370, No. 4. 

 Rotalia beccarii, Linne sp. ; Chapman, 1902, The Foraminifera, 



p. 37, fig. 23. 



This typically estuarine species attains its best development at 

 Altona Bay, near to where the Kororoit Creek enters the sea. 

 Howchin records it from the Port Adelaide River. 



A.B., very common, well developed in point of size; B., 

 common, tests small, thin, and translucent, but otherwise typical ; 

 M.H., frequent, small ; T., rare, of normal size. 



Rotalia papillosa, var. compressiuscula, Brady. 



R. papillosa, var. compressiitscula, Brady, 1884, Rep. Chall., 

 vol. ix., p. 708, pi. cvii., figs. 1, a — c ; pi. cviii., figs. 1, a — c. 



This variety has been found in shallow-water dredgings chiefly 

 in the Pacific. The nearest locality to the present one is Port 

 Jackson, Sydney. It is just possible, however, that the examples 

 before us may have been derived from the Tertiary fossiliferous 

 cliffs at Beaumaris, since they are somewhat iron-stained, and 

 the species has been recorded as a Victorian fossil. 



B., very rare. 



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