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DESCRIPTION OF THE FORAMINIFERA. 



Fain. M I L I () L 1 1) A E. 



Subfam. NUBECULARIINAE. 



Genus Nubecularia, Defrance, 1825. 



Nubecularia lucifuga, Dclrance. 



Nubecularia lucifuga, Defrance, 1825, Diet. Sci. Nat., vol. xxv, p. 210 ; 



Atlas Zooph., pi. xliv, tig. 3. N. hicifuga, Defr., Brady, 1884, Rep. 



ChalL, vol. ix, p. 134, pi. i, figs. 9-16. N. lucifuga, Defr., Egger, 1893, 



Abhandl. d. k. bayer. Akad. d. Wiss., cl. ii, vol. xviii, p. 250, pi. xxi, 



figs. 4-7. N. lucifuga, Defr., Millett, 1898, Jourii. R. Micr. Soc, p. 261, 



pi. V, fig. 7. 



The example found here almost exactly resembles fig. 3 of the " Challenger " 



Report, and is of the adherent and spiral tyjje of shell. The attached surface shows 



very imperfect septation ; the upper surface is rugose and pitted. 



Distribution. — N. lucifuga has been previously recorded (as a variety) from the 

 New Zealand area by Dr. Rudolf Haeusler,* who found it in shallow water at the 

 Hauraki (Julf. The " Cluillenger " obtained it from one station only, at Tongatabu, 

 Friendly Islands (18 fathoms). It has also been recorded from the shore-sands 

 near Melbourne, Australia, and from the coast of Tripoli ; whilst it is abundant on 

 the shores of the Mediterranean (as at Palermo, Sicily, T. Rupt. Jones coll. in the 

 author's cabinet), and in the East and West Indies. Depauperated examples 

 occasionally turn up on the Devonshire coast, in England. Dr. Egger has also 

 recorded it from the neighbourhood of Kerguelen Island, and Mr. Millett from the 

 Malay Archipelago. 



Present Occurrence. — Off the Snares ; 60 fathoms ; one specimen. 



Subfam. MILIOLININAE. 



Ctcuus Biloculina, d'Orbigny, 1826. 



Biloculina depressa, d'Orbigny. 



Biloculina depressa, d'Orbigny, 1826, Ann. Sci. Nat., vol. vii, p. 298, No. 7. 



B. depressa, d'Orb., Brady, 1884, Rep. Chall., vol. ix, p. 145. pi. ii. 



figs. 12, 16, 17 ; pi. iii, figs. 1, 2. B. depressa, d'Orb., Schlumberger, 



1891, Mem. Soc. Zool. France, vol. iv, p. 547, pi. ix, figs. 48, 49 ; 



woodcuts, figs. 1-5. 

 A few of our shells exhibit the aboral proh.iugation which is seen to occur in 

 Recent examples, and so frequently in the Tertiary specimens from Victoria and 

 elsewhere. The deep-water variety, murrhjna, appears to be absent from these 

 soundings. 



* Trans. N.Z., Inst. vol. xix, 1887, p. l'J7. 



