170 Mr. H. J. Carter on Fossil Foraminifera in Scinde, 



Obs. This differs from the foregoing species in its general 

 thickness ; the number and approximation of its sinuous lines ; 

 the absence of the small granulations or papillae between them, 

 and the greater number and narrowness of its whorls. The 

 sinuous lines, although confused and in whorls all over the sur- 

 face in the adult animal, are nevertheless distinctly sigmoid in 

 the young one, running from the circumference to the central 

 prominence of the shell on both sides. 



This specimen was brought from Egypt. It appears to be 

 N. millecaput. That figured by MM. Joly and Leymerie is 

 lyi inch in diameter. Generally the Nummulites of this kind 

 from Egypt which I have seen (those of the Pyramids to wit) 

 have been about an inch in diameter and about 2-1 2ths inch thick. 

 I have inserted its description here and figure in the Plate for 

 the sake of comparison, not having met with one of the same 

 kind in Scinde. 



•3. N. obtusa, Sowerby. Equilateral, more or less globular, 

 compressed in the centre, obtuse at the margin. Surface pre- 

 senting sinuous lines in close approximation, and in confused 

 whorls in the adult animal, but simple and sigmoid in the young 

 shell ; extending from the septa at the circumference to the 

 central prominence on each side. Internally whorls numerous, 

 the broadest between the centime and the circumference ; lines of 

 the spire nearly as widely separated above and below the central 

 plane as they are in the central plane itself. Chambers nume- 

 rous, reflected ; septa reflected. Diameter of the largest speci- 

 mens 1 l-12ths of an inch ; thickness 2— lOths ; number of whorls 

 thirty-three (figs. 13, 14). 



Alveolina, D'Orbigny. 



1. Alveolina melo, D'Orb. [Melonites spherica, Lamarck.) 

 Spherical, equilateral, presenting longitudinal lines which extend 

 in a sigmoid form from apex to apex ; and minute transverse 

 parallel ridges between them, marking corresponding internal 

 divisions of the chambers. Internally chambers fusiform, sig- 

 moid, divided into hair-like spaces by transverse septa which are 

 the continuations of the ridges mentioned ; the whole arranged 

 in a spiral form. Diameter 5-24ths of an inch (fig. 15). 



Loc. Scinde, Arabia. 



2. •'Melonites spheroidea, Lamarck (fig. 16). 

 Loc. Scinde, Arabia. 



Obs. This has the same characters as the last, with the exception 

 of being larger and a little elongated. Longest diameter 7-24<ths 

 of an inch ; transverse diameter 6-24!ths. Abounds about YoUa 

 in Scinde, where it is well known by the name of " tomra," and 



