Foraminifera of South Cornwall. 31 



a certain number of specimens found upon dilapidated type-slides 

 from the Millett Collection (which now forms part of our own), 

 and by a tube of floatings from the same source, made from shore- 

 sand collected at Fowey. The material may therefore be said to be 

 virtually complete and representative, and it presents one or two 

 points which are worthy of note. 



With the exception of our recently recorded genus and species 

 Iridia diaphana * no Astrorhizidse were found. The family is 

 normally rare in shore-gatherings, and the material examined con- 

 tained but few Molluscan or other fragments upon which the 

 adherent forms might have been found, but the otherwise extremely 

 rich dredging off Newly n (Station I) was noteworthy for a like 

 absence of these Arenacea. 



The material from the area in general was, as might have been 

 expected from the geological features of the neighbouring shores, 

 more free from derived fossils than is usually the case in British 

 shore-gatherings ; but at Station III (Marazion) chalk fossils 

 were found of the species Anomalina ammonoides (Reuss) and 

 Textularia glohulosa Ehrenberg, and at Station VII (Veryan Bay) 

 Eocene fossils of the species Bulimina dongata d'Orbigny, and 

 DisG07-hina hertheloti d'Orbigny. How these specimens arrived 

 in these localities, whether washed by tides from as far east as 

 the Isle of Wiglit or derived from a submarine outcrop, it is 

 impossible to conjecture, though the Chalk fossils may have been 

 derived from Beer Head, South Devon. The same problem arises 

 in connexion vv^ith a single fine and typical example of Faujasina 

 carinata d'Orbigny, a common fossil in the Pliocene of St. Erth, 

 Cornwall, which occurred in the shore-sand at Station II (Penzance), 

 and which we figure (PI. IX, figs. 6-8). How this specimen from 

 an inland and purely local deposit can have found its way to the 

 shore-sand of Penzance is entirely obscure. 



At Marazion several specimens of the fresh-water Ehizopod 

 Dijffl^igia pyriformis Perty were found, which we have dealt with, 

 sub Reophax diJ[)liigiformis. 



Three forms are recorded as new to Britain, Cristellaria 

 hauerina d'Orbigny, Pohjmorphina complexa Sidebottom, and Dis- 

 corbina hertheloti var. haconica Hantken ; and recorded for the 

 second time as British are Haplophragmium runianum H-A. & E., 

 Discorhina chasteri var. bispinosa H-A. & E., and Pulvinulina 

 patago7iica var. scitula Brady. 



Excepting in the case of the latter species, we have not given 

 the usual synonymies or references in this paper, but we have 

 given in every case a reference to easily accessible papers in which 

 the synonymies and references are either historically important, or 

 fairly full and brought up to date, and with a view to concentrat- 



* H-A. & E., 1914, F.K.A., pp. 371, et seq. 



