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FORAMINIFERA FR0M:BERMUDA. 



BY A. WOODWARD. 

 {Presented May 15M, 1885.) 

 In two gatherings of Foraminifera, one made by Mr. W. G. 

 DeVVitt in 1884, the other by Mr. J. F. Kemp in 1885, at six 

 different localities in the Bermuda Islands, I have found forms 

 representing eighty-nine species, belonging to thirty-seven 

 genera. My list of these, given below, does not claim to be a 

 complete catalogue of Bermuda Foraminifera. To such cata- 

 logue access to material from other localities and from greater 

 depths would be necessary. 



The Hinsen's Island gathering furnishes, it will be seen, the 

 largest number of species. The forms are very perfect, and 

 many of them, such as Bilociilina, Spiroloculina, and Miliolina, 

 are quite common. Hamilton Harbor yields fewer species, but 

 the specimens, especially of Orbiculina adunca and Orbitolites 

 complanata^ are well preserved. The forms from the shell-sand 

 of Shelly Bay, north shore, are not abundant, but are perfect 

 and beautiful. Those from Somerset Island and Paget Beach 

 are few, badly worn, and difificult to identify. 



H. B. Brady, in his Report on the Foraminifera collected in 

 the Challenger expedition, speaks of the wide variation of form 

 embraced within the specific limits of Paneroplis pertusus, from 

 the compressed planospiral shell of about three convolutions, to 

 the thin outspread shell of the species planahcs. These grada- 

 tional forms are, I found, quite fully represented in this Bermuda 

 material. 



Explanation of abbreviations : 



H. I, — Hinsen's Island, low tide. 



H. H. — Hamilton Harbor, five fathoms. 



S. B.— Shelly Bay. 



Sh. B. — Shelly Bay, north shore. 



S. I. — Somerset Island, shore sand. 



P. B.— Paget Beach. 



X— Habitat. 



W. and J. — Walker and Jacob. 



F. and M.— Fichtel and Moll. 



