On the Saccammina of the Carboniferous Limestone. 215 



close to the base, the second beyond the middle : secondaries 

 pale brown, palest at the base. The head, antennae, and 

 thorax dark brown ; abdomen reddish brown, the anal tuft 

 dark brown. 



Expanse 1^ inch. 



Hab. New Caledonia [Mus. Druce). 



Miresa alma, sp. n. 



Male. — Primaries and secondaries uniformly creamy white, 

 shaded with yellowish brown along the inner margins of the 

 secondaries. The head, antennae, and thorax creamy white; 

 abdomen black, banded with yellow ; the legs dark brown. 



Expanse If inch. 



Hab. New Caledonia [Mus. Druce). 



XXXIII. — iVote on the Specific Name of the Saccammina of 

 the Carboniferous Limestone. By Fkedeeick Chapman. 

 A.L.S., E.ii.M.S. 



In the course of some investigations amongst Microzoa from 

 the Carboniferous Limestone of Ireland I have met with the 

 well-known Carboniferous foraminifer Saccammina in some 

 abundance. 



So far as I was aware S. Carteri, Brady, had not been 

 definitely recorded (under that name) from the Irish lime- 

 stones, excepting a general remark which Di*. H. B. Brady 

 made in his report on the Foraminifera of the * Challenger ' 

 Expedition in 1884*. 



In 1849 t, however, McCoy had recorded certain foramini- 

 fera from the Carboniferous Jjimestone of Ireland, to which 

 he gave the name of " Nodosaria fusulinaformis.''^ These 

 specimens were described, but not figured, and up to the 

 present appear to have been regarded as too ill-detined for 

 the name to be retained j and, moreover, the name Saccammina 

 Carieri had been fully established before McCoy's species 

 had been, as it were, rediscovered. 



The evidence for JSodosaria fasuUniformis of McCoy has 

 been therefore carefully examined, and by the present note 1 

 think it will be seen to be identical with Brady's Saccammina 

 Carter i. 



* Zoology, vol. ix. p. 253. 



t "On some new Genera and Species of Palaeozoic Corals and Forami- 

 nifera," Ann, & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, vol. iii. pp. 131, 132. 



