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185^1. Alveolina costulata, Eichwald, Leth. Rossica, Dem. Peiiode, p. 8, 



pi. 1.%.4. 

 1854. Borelis sphseroidea?, Ehrenb. Mikrogeol. pi. 37 d. figs. 1-3. 

 1854. Borelis (Melonia) Melo, Ehrenb. Mikrogeol. pi. 37, 10. fig. 1 . 



Nos. 2 and 3 cannot be at all distinctly separated, the vai-ia- 

 tion being so slight. They should be united (as Fichtel and 

 Moll as well as D'Orbigny had them) under the one term " Al- 

 veolina Melo." 



4. Elongate-oval variety. Alveolina ovmdea, D'Orb. 



1802. Deluc, Journ. Phvs. liv. p. 179, pi. 1. figs. 11, 12. 



1802. Discolithus XI. a, Fortis, Mem. ii. p. 113, pi. 3. figs. 8, \}. 



1811. Fasciolites, Parkinson, Org. Rem. iii. p. 158, pi. 10. figs. 28-31. 



1826. Alveolina ovoidea, D'Orb. Ann. Sc. Nat. vii. p. 306. no. 3. 



1826. Alveolina oblonga, D'Orb. Ann. Sc. Nat. vii. p. 306. no. 4. 



1826. Alveolina Fortisii, Desk. Diet. Class. Hist. Nat. x. p. 352. 



1828. Alveolina oblonga, Desk. Ann. Sc. Nat. xiv. p. 232. 



1840. Fasciolites elliptica. Sow. Trans. Geol. Soc. Lond. 2 ser. v. p. 329 &c., 



pl.24. figs. 17, 17 a. 

 1846. Alveolina subpjTenaica, Leym, Mem. Soc. Geol. France, 2* ser. i. 



p. 360, pi. 13. fig. 9. 

 1853. Alveolina elliptica, D'Archiac, Hist. Prog. Geol. iii. p. 245. 

 1853. Alveolina elliptica, Carter, Journ. Bombay Asiat. Soc. v. p. 134, 



pi. 2. fig. 17. 

 1853. AlveoUna ovoidea, D'Arch. 4- H. Foss. de I'Inde, p. 349. 



5. Fusiform variety. Alveolina sabulosa, Montf. 



1802. Deluc, Journ. Phys. liv. p. 179, pi. 1. figs. 13, 14. 



1802. Discolithus XT. b, Fortis, Mem. ii. p. 114, pi. 3. figs. 10, 11. 



1802. Alveolite grain de fe'tuque, Bosc, Bullet. Sc. Nat. Philora. Soc. no. 61. 



pi. 5. fig. 3. 

 1808. Miliolites sabulosus, De Montf ort. Conch. Syst. i. p. 174. 

 1820. Oryzaria Boscii, Defrance, Diet. Sc. Nat. xvi. p. 104. 

 1822. Alveolites Milium, Brongn. Cuvier's Ossem. Foss. ii.p. 270. 

 1826. Alveolina Boscii, D'Orb. Ann. Sc. Nat. vii. p. 306. no. 5. 

 1826. Melonia Boscii, Desk. Diet. Class. Hist. Nat. x. p. 352. 

 1828. Alveolina Boscii, Desk. Ann. Sc. Nat. xiv. p. 233. 



6. Cylindrical or subcylindrical variety. Alveolina elongata, D'Orb. 



1816. 'Alveolites Larva, Defrance, Diet. Sc. Nat. i. p. 137. 

 1826. Alveolina elongata, D'Orb. Ann. Sc. Nat. vii. p. 307. no. 6. 

 1826. Alveolina Quoii, D'Orb. Ann. Sc. Nat. vii. p. 307. no. 7. 

 1828. Alveolina elongata, Desh. Ann. Sc. Nat. xiv. p. 234. 

 1828. Alveolina Quoii, Desh. Ann. Sc. Nat. xiv. p. 234. 



Besides the above-noticed varieties of Alveolina, which are 

 both recent and of Tertiary age, there are some very interesting 

 varieties occurring in the Carboniferous Limestone, of Palaeozoic 

 age. These belong to the genus Fusulina, proposed by G. Fischer 

 de Waldheim for some fusiform Foraminifers occurring in great 

 abundance in the white Carboniferous Limestone of Russia*. 



* Oryctograph. Moscou, p. 126, pi. 13. figs. l-ll. 



