40 Dr. E. P. Wright on Foraniimfera. 



111. — Nuie.^ on Foraminifera. By E. Perceval WkiGHT, 

 M.D., F.L.S., Professor of Botany' in the University of 

 Dublin, Secretary of the lloyal Irish Academy. 



While at the Seychelles, in 1867, I made several collections 

 of the Foraminifera met with while dredging. These were, 

 for the most parr, preserved in spirits of wine, and unfortunately 

 were lost. One dredging, made in about eight fatlioms of water, 

 off the entrance of the harbour of Port Victoria, between the 

 island of St. Anne and Long Island, however, was preserved 

 in a dry state ; the bottom consisted for the most])avtofa 

 coarse white sand, mixed with fragments of shells, spicules of 

 Alcyonarians, and fragments of coral, and evidently contained 

 numbers of Foraminifera. A little bottle of dredij-ed stuff from 

 sialic harbour turned up subsequently; and the mud and sand 

 Avashed from the corals and echinoderms which were brought 

 home helped to make up a more or less repi'csentative batch of 

 material. The whole was forwarded to my friend Henry B. 

 Brady, F.R.S., of Xewcastle-on-Tyne, for examination ; and 

 I am indebted to him for the following list of the species 

 found and the accompanying notes upon them. 



Seychelles Foraminifera. 



1. Cornu.'ipira fdlacea, Philippi, sp. (184^4, Oi-^jis fvliaceus, Enum. 



Moll, Sicil. vol. ii. p. 147, pi. 24. fig. 26). Medhim-sized spe- 

 cimens, rare. 



2. Bilocidina elongata, D'Orbigny (1826, Ann. Sci. Nat. vol. vii. 



p. 298. no. 1). Earc. 



3. Bilocidina contra ria, D'Orbigny (1846, For. Foss. Vieune, p. 266, 



pi. 16. figs. 4-6). Yery rare. 



4. Triloculina trir/onida, Lamarck, sp. (1804, MUiolites trigonula, 



Aim. Mus. vol. V. p. 3.51. no. 3). Eare. 



5. Triloculina ohhtu/a, Montagu, sp. (180.3, Veiinieulum obhngum, 



Test. Brit. p. 522, pi. 14. fig. 9). Eare. 



6. Triloculina Broncfniartiaiui, D'Orbigny (1840, Foram.Cuba, p. 156, 



pi. 10. figs. 6-8). Somewhat rare. 



7. Quiwjuelocidina semimdum, Linne, sp. (1767, Serpida seminulum, 



Syst. Nat. 12th ed. p. 1264. no. 791). Eather common. Also 

 several specimens of a concave variety, mth thick margin, not 

 answering very well to any figured species. 



8. Quinqueloculina secans, D'Orbigny (1826, Ann. Sci. Nat. vol. vii. 



p. 303. no. 43— Modile no. 96). Eare. 



9. Quinqueloculina subrotunda, Montagu, sp. (lS03,Vermiculum sub- 



rotundum,Tcst. Brit. p. 521). Eare. 



10. Quinqueloculina Ferussacii, D'Orbigny (1820, Ann. Sci. Nat. 



vol. vii. p. 301. no. 18— Modele no. 32). 



11. Quinqueloculina antillarum, D'Orbigny (1840, Foram. Cuba, 



p. 167. pi. 12. figs. 4-7). Eare. 



