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On Cymbalopora bvlloides (d'Orbigny) and its internal 



structures. 



By Arthur Earland. 



{Read April 18tk, 1902.) 



Plate 16. 



A little more than a year ago Mr. E. H. Matthews, of Yorke 

 Town, South Australia, forwarded me some small packets of 

 Foraminiferous material which he had himself collected in bygone 

 years at various places round the shores of the Yorke Peninsula 

 in South Australia. They yielded many very interesting forms, 

 some of which deserve further notice ; but my present object is 

 to draw your attention to one particular gathering which in its 

 way was quite unique. 



This was a very tiny packet containing only a few grains of 

 material, and labelled ''Query Foram, Corny Point, 1880." On 

 examination it proved to be what I had never seen or heard of 

 before — a pure gathering of a single species, and that a species 

 of far from frequent occurrence — viz., C i/mbalopora hulloides, 

 d'Orbigny. 



I was so much struck with the singular nature of this gathering 

 that I at once wrote to Mr. Matthews, asking him for any infor- 

 mation respecting the form and the conditions under which it 

 had been found, though after a lapse of twenty years I did not 

 expect to receive any very definite information. Fortunately, 

 however, the unusual nature of the gathering had been impressed 

 upon him at the time, and he replied as follows : — 



" Now as to your queries : I was wondering if I had included 

 the Corny Point gathering amongst those I had sent you ; to me 

 it is one of the strangest of my finds. In November, 1880, I 

 went as far as Warooka (fourteen miles west of Yorke Town) by 

 mail, and was there met by horses and trap for the remaining 

 thirty miles of the journey. It was a warm, still night in our 

 early spring, very dark — one could hear, but not see, the kangaroos 



