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Phillip Island (M.H.) ; and Torquay, Jan Juc (T.). A few 

 selected Foraminifera have been kindly given me by Mr. J. H. 

 Gatliff, from Point Nepean (P.N.) and Sorrento (S.), which are also 

 included here. It should be noted that the foreshore of Beaumaris 

 is backed by Tertiary cliffs of a more or less sandy and fossiliferous 

 nature ; and in examining the tidal floatings from this locality it 

 is well to bear in mind the possibility of finding a few fossil 

 Foraminifera included in the shore-sand. Fossils thus derived are 

 distinguished by their stained appearance and infilled chambers, 

 and such have been discarded from our lists. The gatherings 

 from Torquay were obtained from Fisherman's Bay. At this 

 locality the foreshore is bounded by calcareous sand-dunes, so 

 that the risk of meeting with derived fossils here is reduced to a 

 minimum. Further to the west, in the neighbourhood of Spring 

 Creek, I have repeatedly failed to find Foraminifera, although 

 shells of young molluscs are abundant at times. Altona Bay 

 has a foreshore of calcareous and quartzose sand, with a low 

 fringing raised beach full of marine shells ; but since the 

 Pleistocene Foraminifera from the old beach would be scarcely 

 different from the present fauna, the chances of an occasional 

 specimen washed down need not be seriously considered. The 

 two remaining localities, Shoreham and McHaffie's Beef, on 

 opposite sides of Western Port, have the foreshore skirted by 

 basaltic rocks, so that here there is no possibility of the inclusion 

 of derived forms. 



Order FORAMINIFERA. 



Family MILIOLIDAE. 



Sub-family Nubeculariinae. 



Genus Nubecularia, Defrance. 



Nubecularia bradyi, Millett. 



N. inflata, Brady (non Terquem), 1884, Rep. Chall., vol. ix., p. 135, 



pi. i., figs. 5 — 8. 

 jV. bradyi, Millett, 1898, Joum. R. Micr. Soc, p. 261, pi. v., 



figs. 6, a, b. 



This species, although Nubecularian in its general characters, 

 may probably be related to Miliolina labiosa, as Brady has already 



