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sharp, and with an even outhne. Diameter of test about -8 mm. 

 This species seems to be nearly related to Egger's Truncatulina 

 favosoidcs,-'' but differs in its generally neater appearance, with 

 flatter superior surface, more strongly limbate sutures, finer variolae, 

 and an even peripheral edge. It is of peculiar interest to note that 

 the nearly allied form has only lately been discovered by Dr. Egger 

 in the Cretaceous of the Upper Bavarian Alps, and also that no 

 species at all approaching these in the style of ornament were met 

 with either in the Gault of Folkestone or of North Germany. 

 Very common in the Cretaceous of East Pondoland. 



Genus EOTALIA Lamarck. 



EoTALiA soLDANii d'Orb. sp., var. nitida Keuss. 

 Plate XXIX., figs. 17, 17a. 



Botal/'na nitidaB.euss, 1844, Geogr. Skizze Bohmen, vol. ii., pt. i., 



p. 214. Id., 1845-6, Verstein. bohm. Kreidef., pt. i., p. 35, 



pi. viii., fig. 52 ; pi. xii., figs. 8, 20. 

 Placent'ida nitida Berthehn, 1880, Mem. Soc. Geol. France, ser. 3, 



vol. i.. No. 5, p. 69, pi. iv., iigs. Ua-c. 

 Discorbina oligostegia Perner, 1892, Foraminifery Cesk^ho ceno- 



manu (Palaeontographica Bohemiae, No. 1), p. 65, pi. x., 



figs. 5a, b. 

 Botalia mnbilicata var. nitida Eeuss, Id., 1897, Foraminifery 



Vrstev Belohorskych (Pal. Bohem., No. 4), pp. 54, 55, 72, 



pi. vii., fig. 25 and woodcut p. 53. 

 R. soldanii d'Orb. var. nitida Eeuss, Chapman, 1898, Journ. E. 



Micr. Soc, p. 9, pi. ii., figs. 2a-c. 

 R. nitida Eeuss, Egger, 1899, Abhand. k. Akad., CI. ii., vol. xxi., 



Abth. 1, p. 156, pi. XX., tigs. 4-6. 



The specific form, of which this is a smaller and more delicate 

 variety, was described from the Tertiary Beds of the Vienna Basin. 

 The variety nitida is a well-known form in the Upper Cretaceous, as 

 the Albian of France and England, and the Cenomanian, Turonian, 

 and Senonian of Bohemia and the Upper Bavarian Alps. 



This variety is very rare in our material. 



* Abhtindl. k. baycr. Akad., CI. ii., vol. xxi., Abth. 1, p. 150, pi. xx., figs. 22-5. 



