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gatherings or dredgings. R. nodulosa^ is very rare. jR. 

 findens, the typical " split " or divided form, is exceedingly 

 rare ; one perfect example being all I have ever seen. 



Reophax moniliforme, n.sp. (PL I, fig. 2). 



There occur here quite frequently, fragments of an 

 unbranched cylindrical moniliform Reophax, which closely 

 resembles R. Jinde7is, but is not divided. Perfect speci- 

 mens of this form are rare, but I have found several. 

 Balkwill and Wright figure fragments of the form in 

 question on pi. xiii, figs. 22, 24, of their Recent Dublin 

 Foraminiferaf but they do not give it a specific name. I 

 venture, therefore, to propose for it, for convenience sake, 

 the name jR. moniUforme (see PI. I, fig. 2). 



Placopsilina spp., d'Orb. 



The first examples obtained from this district of the 

 forms I have referred to the genus Placoimlina, were 

 adherent to a Sertularia dredged from the Dee estuary, off 

 Hilbre Island, by Mr. A. 0. Walker. They do not perfectly 

 harmonise with the generic description in Mr. Brady's 

 monograph ; being somewhat more delicate and hardly as 

 smooth on the exterior surface as the type forms. The 

 single-chambered globular or ovoid form agrees fairly with 

 P. bulla; the specific distinction of which is the mono- 

 thalamous character. 



Placopsilina kingsleyi, n.sp. (PL I, fig. 1). 



On the same Seriidaria referred to above, and frequently 

 also from the same and other localities, I have obtained a 

 double chambered form which seems intermediate between 

 P. bulla and P. cenomana. This is figured on plate I, 

 fig. 1, and as a distinguishing name for it, I venture to pro- 

 pose P. kingsleyi, in honour of the late Canon Kingsley, the 

 founder of the Chester Society of Natural Science, and the 

 friend and helper of all men. 



