34 THE PALEONTOLOGY OF MINNESOTA. 



[Boll vina. 



tata, margine acutangula. Loculi numerosi angusti ; recti, parum obliqui ; apertura 

 simplex. Long.=0.3 0.4 mm." EEUSS. (Denkschr. d. k. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. i, 

 p. 381. 



A more general description is given in German, of which the following is a 

 translation: 



B. dilatata, shell, narrow-cuneiform, broad above, acuminated below, but in the 

 middle relatively stout, thinning out gradually toward the sharp margins, punctate 

 on the surface. The "chambers" are numerous (11 to 12 on each side), lower, not 

 curved, only a little oblique, scarcely rounded. 



Locality. Saline county, Nebraska. 



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BOLIVINA PUNCTATA d'Orbigny. 



PLATE 0, PIGS. 27, 28. 



Bolivina punctata d'ORBiGNY, 1839. Foram. Amer. Merid., p. 61, pi., viii, flgs. 1012. 



Bolivina antiqua, Id., 1846. Foram. Foss. Vien., p. 240, pi. xiv, flgs. 11-13. 



Qrammostomum polysUgma EHKENBEKG, 1854. Mikrogeologie, pi. xix, flg. 84. 



Grammostomum caloglossa EHKENBERG, Ibid., pi. xxv, flgs. 17, 18. 



Bolivina punctata BRADY, 1864. Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., vol. xxiv, p. 468, pi. xlviii. flg. 9, a, b. 



Bulimina presli var. (Bolivina) punctata PARKER and JONES, 1865. Phil. Trans., vol. civ, p. 376, pi. 



xviii, flg. 74. 

 Bolivina elongata HANTKEN, 1875. Mittheil. Jahrb. d. k. ung. geol. Anstalt, vol. iv, p. 65, pi. vii, 



flg. 14. 



Bolivina antiqua TERRIGI, I860. Atti dell' Acad. Pont., ann. xxxiii, p. 196, pi. ii, flg. 40. 

 Bolivina punctata MOEBIUS, 1880. Foram. von Mauritius, p. 94, pi. 9, flgs. 9, 10. 

 Bolivina punctata BRADY, 1884. Eeport on Foram. H. M. S. Challenger, Zool., vol. ix, p. 417, pi. lii, 



flgs. 18, 19. 

 Bolivina punctata WOODWARD and THOMAS, 1885. Thirteenth Annual Report, Geol. Nat. Hist. 



Sur. Minn., p. 169, pi. iii, flg. 12. 



B. punctata. "Testa elongata, compressa, conica, antice obtusa, postice acu- 

 minatea, alba, punctata, lateraliter subcarinata ; loculis numerosis, obliquis, 

 undulatis, ultimo obtuso ; apertura simplici." D'ORBIGNY. (Foram. Amer. Merid., p. 63.) 



Test elongated, compressed, conical, obtuse anteriorly, acuminated posteriorly, 

 white, punctate, sub-carinate on sides, with numerous oblique undulate segments, 

 the last obtuse, aperture simple. 



Locality. Meeker county, Minnesota ; Saline county, Nebraska, and South Chicago, Illinois. Quite 

 rare in all these localities. 



