252 FORAMINIFERA OF THE CRAG. 



PoLTMOEPHiNA LACTEA, Parker, Jones, and Brady, 1871. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hisfc., 



ser. 4, vol. viii, pp. 170, 171, No. 64, 

 pi. xi, fig. 104 (after Soldani). 

 GuTTULiNA DiSPAKiLis, Terquem, 1874. Foram. Syst. Oolithique, p. 309, pi. xxxiii, 



fig: 23. 

 POLTMOBPHINA MuENSTEEi, Hantken, 1875. Mitth. .Jahrb. k. Uugar. geol. Anst., 



p. 61, pi. vii, fig. 16. 



— LACTEA, Terquem, 1875. Plage Dunkerque, p. 37, pi. v, fig. 12. 

 GrTTTJLiNA COMMUNIS, Idem, 1875. Ibid., fig. 13. 



POLTMOKPHINA LACTEA, Brady and Bolertson, 1875. Report Brit. Assoc, for 1874, 



p. 190. 



— — Siddall, 1878. Proe. Che.ster Soc. N. Sci., No. 2, p. 54. 



— BTJCCULENTA, BertJielin, 1880. Mem. Soc. Geol. Fr., ser. 3, vol. i, 



p. 58, pi. xxvii, figs. 16, 17. 



Globulina taeians, Terquem, 1882. Ibid., ser. 3, vol. ii, p. 128, pi. xiii, figs. 9, 15. 



POLTMOBPHINA LACTEA, Brady, 1884. ' Challenger ' Eeport, p. 559, pi. Ixxi, 



figs. 11, 14, and fistulose form, p. 560, 

 pi. Ixiii, fig. 14. 



— — Giimbel, 1885. Geol. Bayern, Theil 1, Lief 2, p. 421, 



cut 266, fig. 15. 

 — OOLITHICA, Deecke, 1886. Mem. Soc. d'Emul. Moutbeliard, vol. 



xvi, p. 37, pi. i, fig. 28. 



— nj^. AMYasALOiBss, Deecke, 1S86. Ibid., figs. 20, 20 a. 



— BILOCULAHIS, Deecke, 1886. Ibid., vol. xvi, p. o, pi. i, fig. 11. 



— LACTEA, B., P., and J., 1888. Trans. Zool. Soc, vol. xii, pt. 7, 



p. 224, pi. xliv, fig. 11 (?). 



— — & var. ELONGATA, Burroius, Sherhorn, and Bailey, 1890. 



Jouru. R. Micr. Soc, p. 561, pi. xi, 

 figs. 9,10 (?). 



— — Crick and Sherhorn, 1892. Journ. Northamp. Nat. Hist. 



Soc, vol. vii, p. 71, fig. 25. 



— — Egger, 1893. Abhandl. k. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., vol. xviii, 



Abth. ii, p. 308, pi. ix, figs. 8, 14, 15. 



— ? ELEGANTissiMA, Idem, 1893. Ibid., fig. 16. 



— LACTEA, Goes, 1894. K. Svensk. Vet.-Akad. Handl., vol. xxv, 



No. 9, p. 54. 



— — Chapman, 1896. Journ. E. Micr. Soc, p. 9, pi. ii, 



figs. 3, 4. 



Characters. — Shell (typical) ovate, gibbous, slightly asymmetrical; anterior 

 extremity acute; posterior obtuse, rounded. Chambers few, oblong, oblique, 

 somewhat inflated. 



The shell of P. lactea has normally four or five visible chambers, sufficiently 

 ventricose to disturb the regularity of the general outline; the sutural lines marked 

 by slight depression. In its typical form the transverse section is nearly circular ; 

 but this is a variable character, and the compressed modifications described by 



