Recent and Fossil Foravdnifera. 311 



seems to be principally confined in cold areas in high latitudes, 

 although the ' Challenger' report records it from the South Atlantic 

 and South Pacific in depths from 1000 to 2375 fathoms. 



69. Spiroplecta fusca Earland. 



Many typical specimens of this species have been found in the 

 shore-sand opposite Medmerry Farm. 



327. Oraudryina filiformis Bertlielin. 



Q-ttudryina filiformis Berthelin, 1880, Mem. Soc. Geol. France, ser. 3, vol. i. 



No. 5, p. 25, pi. i. fig. 8. 

 Ditto. (Berthelin) Wright, 1882, Proc. Belfast Nat. Field Clul> (1880-1), App. 



p. 180, pi. viii. fig. 3. 

 Ditto. (Berthelin) Brady, 1884, Foram. ' Challenger,' p. 380, pi. xlvi. fig. 12. 

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

 Ditto. (Bertlielin) Brady, Parker and Jones, 1888, Trans. Zool. Soc, vol. xii. 



p. 219, pi. xlii. fig. 6. 

 Ditto. (Berthelin) Millett, 1900, Malay Foram., Journ. R. Micr. Soc, p. 9. 



A few very fine and perfect specimens, probably Cretaceous. The 

 triserial portion is very indistinct, the initial chamber is markedly 

 megalospheric, the apex of the shells in fact terminating in a little 

 spherical bulb. The largest specimen has no less than sixteen series 

 of chambers. G. filiformis was originally described from Gault 

 fossils from the north of France. It is fairly widely distributed in 

 the recent condition, and small specimens are not uncommon in 

 dredgings from the Shetland-Faeroe area. 



328. (Jin ml i mi obscura Chaster. 



Verneuilina poli/sfropha Eeuss sp., dimorphous form, Wright, 1886, Proc. 



Belfast Nat. Field Club (18^5-6), App. p. 320, pi. xxvi. fig. 2. 

 Clavulina obscura Chaster, 1892, First Eep. Southport Soc Nat. Sci. (1890-1), 



p. 58, pi. i. fig. 4. 

 Ditto. (Chaster) Earland, 1905, Journ. Quekett. Micr. Clul>, ser. 2, vol. ix. 



No. 57, p. 206. 



Recent specimens. This little species, originally described by 

 < naster from shore-mud and shallow dredgings at Southport (Lanes.), 

 may be nothing more than a starved form of Clavulina parisiensis 

 (d'Orb.), with which it agrees in the general formation of the test 

 and the triangulation of the earlier chambers. It is probably widely 

 distributed, although owing to its small size the records are few. 

 Wright has recorded it from shallow water off Ireland, and Earland 

 has records from anchor-mud, Valetta (Malta), and several of the 

 ' Goldseeker ' dredqin^s in the North Sea. 



329. Bulimina elegantissima (d'Orbigny) var. seminuda Terquem. 



Bulimina seminuda Terquem, 1882, Mem. Soc. Geol. France, ser. 3, vol. ii. 

 Mem. 3, p. 117, pi. xii. fig. 21. 



Bidimina elegantissim i var. seminuda (Terquem) Bradv, 1884, Foram. 'Chal- 

 lenger,' p. 403, pi. 1. figs. 23, 24. 



Many specimens, fossils from an Eocene sand. Ter<|uem's 

 specimens were from the Eocene beds of Paris. Ours show a eon- 



