SUPPLEMENT. 



ADDITIONAL SPECIES OF MALACOZOA. 



A CONSIDERABLE niimber of species having occurredj 

 while the preceding pages were at press, a supplementary 

 account of them has been found necessary. The Fora- 

 miniferous Cephalopoda have unexpectedly increased, so 

 as to render it expedient to present the characters of their 

 principal families. The additions are owing partly to a 

 last strenuous effort on the part of the author, and 

 partly to the renewed exertions of his friends, espe- 

 cially Mr. Murray and Mr. Gray. 



CLASS I.— CEPHALOPODA. Page 20. 

 ORDER III.— CEPHALOPODA FORAMINIFERA. P. 23,33. 



Family I. — Discorbina. 



Shell many-celled, with tlie cells disposed in a single 

 series, curved in a spiral form. Name from the genus 

 Discorbis. Helicdstega of D'Orbigny. 



GeKUS 1. POLYSTOMELLA. P. 23. 



2. Folystomella Gidielmi7ice. Williamina^ $ Pohjstomella. 



Shell orbicular-disciform, considerably compressed, 

 with the sides equally convex, beveUed to a thin sub- 



