186 Proceedmgs of the Royal Society of Victoria. 



Queensland, by Charles Moore,^ who was himself uncertain as to 

 the age of these beds, but made the suggestion that they belonged 

 to strata between the lias and cretaceous, and showing most 

 affinity to the Oxford clay. These Queensland beds have now 

 been correlated with the lower cretaceous formation, as part of 

 tlie Rolling Downs series. 



Whilst referring to upper mesozoic Foraminifera in Australia, 

 mention must also be made of the important and interesting 

 series, comprising fifty-six species, discovered by the Rev. W. 

 Howchin, F.G.S., in the material from artesian well-borings in 

 the lower cretaceous of Central Australia." 



Our present series of Foraminifera has several species in 

 common with Howchin's list, but they are also common to beds 

 ranging from upper Jurassic to lower cretaceous elsewhere, and 

 other species comparable even with those of recent origin. 



As regards the Ostracoda there appears to be no previous 

 record for these fossils in Australian Jurassic strata. 



DESCRIPTION OF THE FOSSILS. 

 Order Foraminifera. 



Family Litiwlidae. 



Sub-family Lituolitiae. 



Genus Haplophragmiian, Reuss. 



Haplophragmium neocomianum, Chapman. (PI. XXII., 



Fig. 1). 



H. tieocotnianjini, Chapman, 1894, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, 

 vol. 1., p. 695, pi. 34, fig.s. 2«, /;. 



Idem, 1895, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, vol. xvi., p. 315, pi. 

 xi., fig. 7. 



Remarks. — This is a compressed, spiral, arenaceous form, 

 having an irregular, sub-circular outline. The whorls of the test 

 are involute, and the chambers are obscurely seen on the surface ; 



1 Tom. ct<., p. 239; also R. Etheridge, Junr., "A Catalojriie of Australian Fossils," 

 Cambrid},'e, 1878, pp. 102-4. 



2 Trans. Roy. Soc. S.A., vol. viii., 1885, p. 79; vol. xvii., 1893, p. 346; Hep. Adelaide 

 Meeting, A.A.A.S., 1893 (1894), pp. 362-5. 



