12 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



hauls with the dredge in Portree Bay, Skye, at a depth of from 1 4 

 to 18 fathoms, the chief object being the investigation of the 

 Microzoa. The gathering of Foraminifera was very rich, numbering 

 above 100 species, and mostly all being in fine condition. Many 

 of the rarer forms were in considerable abundance, such as Bigenerina 

 digitata, Operculina ammonoides, Nonionina umbilicatida, Quinque- 

 loculina tenuis, Gaudryina filiformis, fyc, but at present I will only 

 notice such as are new to Britain. 



Reophax difflugiformis, Brady. Mr. H. B. Brady, in his paper 

 on the Eeticularian Rhizopoda of the "Challenger" Expedition, 

 (Quarterly Microscopic Journal, vol. xix., N.S., pi. 5, fig., 3), notes 

 its occurrence at 5 different stations, one in the North Atlantic, two 

 in the South Atlantic, and two in the South Pacific. In one of 

 these the depth is 1900 fathoms, while in the other four it varies 

 from 2200 to 2740 fathoms. 



R. nodulosa, var. % Brady. In the same paper, Mr. Brady says that 

 the distribution of this species is very wide, and the finest speci- 

 mens have been found at stations in the South Atlantic, and in the 

 North and South Pacific Oceans at depths from 1400 to 2000 

 fathoms. I have it also from the Clyde district. 



Lituola (Reophax) glomerata, Brady. In his paper on the 

 Eeticularian Rhizopoda of the North Polar Expedition (Ann. and 

 Mag. of Natural History, June, 1878), Mr. Brady records this 

 species from nine different stations between lat. 78°20 N., and 

 lat. 81°41 N., and in depths from 20 to 220 fathoms. 



Dentalina brevis, D'Orb. 



Robertina arctica, D'Orb., I believe to be the same species as that 

 discovered last summer by Mr. Joseph Wright, of Belfast, at 

 Killybegs, and recorded as Bidimina arctica, new to Britain; but 

 Mr. H. B. Brady now refers it to his M. S. name, B. subteres, Brady. 



Dentalina consobrina, D'Orb., and Bolivina dilatata, Reus., and 

 another from the same place of no less interest, which Mr. H. B. 

 Brady figures and describes in his paper already referred to. 



Hypfrrammina elongata is, as Mr. Brady remarks, one of the many 

 arenaceous types brought home in 1869 by naturalists, in the first 

 cruise of the "Porcupine," but he was not aware that it had 

 hitherto received a name. 



From the many species found in Portree Bay, within a distance 

 of 200 or 300 yards, common with those found in the dreclgings 

 of the "Challenger" and Polar Expeditions, although taken at 



