NODOSARIA PROXIMA. 219 



4, NoDOSAMA PKOxiMA, Silvestrl, 1872. Plate IV, fig. 8 (" N. scalaris ") ; Plate VII, 



fig. 15. 



Part I, 18G6, page 52 (V. scalaris) ; and Append. I and II, Tables, No. 38. 



NoDOSAEiA Catesbti, cPOrh., 1S39. Foram. Cuba, p. 16, pi. i, figs. 8 — 10. 



— scALAKis.i J., P., and B., 18G6. Monogr. Foram. Crag, p. 52, pi. iv, 



fig. 8. 



— (D.) CEASSA, Hantkeii, 1868. Magyar foldt tars, munk., vol. iv, p. 86, 



pi. i, fig. 15. 



— BACiLLOiDES, Idem, 1868. Ibid., p. 86, pi. i, figs. 9 a — c. 



— PEOXIMA, Silvesiri, 1872. Atti Accad. Giosnia Sci. Nat., n. s., vol. vii, 



p. 63, pi. vi, figs. 138—147. 



— TAEiABiLis (?), Terquem and Berthelin, 1875. Mem. Soc. Geol. 



France, aer. 2, vol. x, Mem. No. 3, 

 p. 20, pi. i (xi),figs. 19 a—/. 



— CEASSA, Hantken, 1875 (1881). Mitth. Jahrb. K. Ungar, geol. Ges., 



vol. iv, p. 28, pi. xiii, fig. 4. 



— BACILLOIDES, Idem, 1875 (1881). Ibid., p. 27, pi. ii, fig. 8. 



— PEOXIMA, Brady, 1884. Eeport " Challenger," p. 511, pi. Ixiv, fig. 15. 



— — Fornasini, 1888. Boll. Soc. Geol. Ital., vol. vii, p. 48, pl. iii, 



figs. 10, 11 (somewhat marginuline). 



— MiTTABins, Crick and Sherb., 1891. Journ. Northampton Nat. Hist. 



Soc, vol. vi, p. 214, pl. vi, 

 figs. 7, 8. 



— PEOXIMA, Terrigi, 1891. Mem. Comitate Geol. Ital., vol. iv, p. 82, 



pl. ii, fig. 17. 



— — Fornasini, 1894. Mem. E. Accad. Sci. Istit. Bologna, 



ser. 5, vol. iv, p. 206, pl. i, figs. 33 — 

 35 (= AT. trilocularis, Costa). 



These two small Nodosarians from the Crag, bilocular and ribbed, having the 

 suture well marked and a projecting mouth-piece, are nearly matched with either 

 the small young or arrested forms of Nodosaria longicauda, d'Orb., in Silvestri's 

 memoir referred to above, p. 58, pl. v, figs. 107, 108, and 118, and var., pl. vi, 

 figs. 133, 134, or, with the small forms, figs. 138 — 147, which he has named N. 

 proxima, p. 63. The latter are the nearest to ours, inasmuch as the second 

 segment is smaller and more tapering than the first. The latter feature, namely, 

 the delicate lagenoid second chamber, is emphasised in N. ^yupoides, Silv., p. 65, 

 pl. vi, figs. 148 — 158. Indeed, all the three so-called "species" {longicauda, 'proxima, 



1 In the list of synonyms at pp. 52, 53, the names Nodosaria inflata, Reuss, Dentalina inflaia, 

 Eeuss, and Nodosaria nana, Eeuss, should not have been inserted as belonging to the real N. scalaris. 



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