1896.] MICROSCOPICAL JOUKNAL. 57 



enough to find it at Sheephead Bay which is a village 

 just on the Long Island side of Coney Island Creek. It 

 was a greyish colored clay one foot underneath the 

 sand taken at low water about eight feet from the sur- 

 face of the soil. 



At Canarsie Landing, which is on Jamaica Bay between 

 Coney Island and Auverne, I did not find the " Infusorial 

 earth " but I was there a very short time, I did find 

 glacial phenomena and indication of the elevation of the 

 coast but of those I shall not speak now as they are not 

 microscopical. But the finding of the fossil marine 

 BacillariaceaB belonging to the Neocene period is a part. 

 Perhaps they will be found inland on Long Island here- 

 after. 



Radiolaria : A New Species from Barbados. 



REV. FEED'K. B. CARTER. 

 MONTCLAIK, N. J. 



Amphirrhopalum hifidum, n. sp. 



Both arms equal, in the proximal part simple, in the 

 distal part widely forked; distal end of each branch 

 blunt (with terminal spine ?.) Axis of the branches 

 straight. 



Dimensio7is. — Radius of the arms 0.18; basal breadth 

 0.11; breadth of the bifurcation 0.14. 



Habitat. — Fossil in the rocks of Barbadoes. 



This genus has not hitherto been discovered in Bar- 

 bados, the definition of which is as follows: 



Porodiscida with two chambered arms, opposite in one 

 axis, without a patagium; one arm or both forked at the 

 distal end (Haeck.). The other known species, of which 

 there are five, are from the Pacific and Indian Oceans. 



Thus far only one specimen of the new species has 

 been observed and that, as shown in the drawing, is im- 



