BY F. rHAPMAN. 389 



V. bulloides was previously confined tu the Carboniferous and 

 Carboperinian. Dr. H. B. Brady records from the Futtulitia-hed^ 

 of the Upper Coal- Measures of North America, the Calcaire de 

 Naraur of J^elgium, and the Fusulina-Limestone of Miatschkovo, 

 near Moscow. The same species was described by Mr. Howchin 

 and the writer from the Carbopermian limestone (Branxton Stage 

 of the Upper Marine Series), of Wollongong, N. 8. Wales. 



Not uncommon in the Nemingha Limestone. 



Valvulina oblong a, sp.nov. (Plate xl., fig. 8). 



Description. — Several examples of an elongated valvuline type 

 occur in the slides. They remind one of a short, stout Haplo- 

 phraginium, or the Lituola nautiloidea Lam., figured by Dr. Brady 

 from the Carboniferous of Northumberland,* but show the de- 

 pressed base and characteristic aperture of these Devonian and 

 Carboniferous modifications of Valvulina. 



The longer diameter of a fairly complete specimen in section 

 is 1 mm.; the shorter diameter, 0*65 mm. 



PuLViNULiNA BENSOM, sp.nov. (Plate xl., fig. 9). 



Description. — This species differs from the majority of the test- 

 sections in the micro-slides of the Nemingha limestone in having 

 a finely granulate shell-wall, which may, at one time, have been 

 of hyaline structure. The section figured shows a certain amount 

 of depth, although sliced, and indicates a pulvinuline type of 

 shell with few, lobulate chambers, and a wavy, peripheral margin. 

 Jt was probably depressed on the superior face, and slightly 

 conoidal on the inferior. 



The nearest Palaeozoic form to this seems to be P. hrorchijana 

 Brady,t from the Carboniferous Limestone of Namur, Belgium, 

 but diifers essentially in its rounder outline and less inflated 

 chambers. It belongs to the Fii/viiiulina eleyaiis group, and, 

 from its size and contour, indicates a shallow-water variant of 

 that type of shell. 



* Pal. Soc. Mon., Vol. xxx., 1876, p.63, PI. viii., figs. 7a, b. 

 t Pal. 8oc. Moil., Vol. xxx., 1876, p.l40, PI. vi., tigs.r2a-t'. 



