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 \\ 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 wliite ; 

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



Expanse If inch. 



Hah. New Caledonia (J/ms. Druce). 



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

 the Carhoniferous Limestone. By Feedeeick Chapmax, 

 A.L.S., F.R.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 Dr. H. B. Brady 

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

 Expedition in 18S4*. 



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

 fera from the Carboniferous Limestone of Ireland, to which 

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

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

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

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

 Carieri had been fully establislied before McCoy's species 

 had been, as it were, rediscovered. 



The evidence for Nodosaria fusuUnifor mis of McCoy has 

 been therefore carefully examined, and by the present note I 

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

 Carteri. 



* Zoology, vol. ix. p. 253. 



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

 nifera," Ann. & Mag. 2sat. Hist. ser. 2, toI. iii. pp. 131, 132. 



