AKTICLH XV.-RKPORT ON THK FOIUMINIFEIU FKOM THK SUB- 

 ANTAKCTiO ISLANDS OF NKW ZEALAND. 



By Frederick Chapman, Assoc. Linn. Soc. Lond., F.R.M.S., &c., Palaeontologist to the National 



Museum, Melbourne. 



PLATES XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, and XVII. 



The first portion of the present material was received from Mr. J. B. Mayne, M.A.. 

 of Christchurch, New Zealand, who favoured me with three samples of dredgings 

 collected during the recent Subantarctic Expedition from various stations to the 

 south of New Zealand. One of these samples gave promise of good results in the 

 group of the Foraminifera. Shortly afterwards I was requested by Drs. C. C. Farr 

 and C. Chilton, of the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, to undertake the sys- 

 tematic description of the foraminiferal material dredged by the members of the 

 same expedition, and, upon acceding to their request. Dr. Chilton kindly supplied 

 me with several samples from other localities. 



DETAILS OF SAMPLES. 



(1.) " Perseverance Harbour, Campbell Islands ; 8 fathoms. Bollons." (Suter.) 

 A fine silty deposit, largely terrigenous. Containing numerous sponge-spicules 

 and minute calcareous-tested Foraminifera, together with a few arenaceous forms. 



(2.) " One mile and a half north-east of Bounty Island ; 50 fathoms. Bollons." 

 (Suter.) 



A coarse shelly deposit, consisting largely of calcareous worm-tubes, Polyzoa, 

 barnacles, and Mollusca. A few specimens of Foraminifera present, including some 

 interesting redundant or fistulose forms of Polymorphina. 



(3.) "No. 2. Off the Snares; 60 fathoms." (Mayne.) 



Foraminiferal and shell sand, with Polyzoa, Ostracoda, and siliceous sponge- 

 spicules. Also numerous crystals of garnet (rhombic dodecahedra) with striated 

 surfaces. A very rich foraminiferal fauna. 



(4.) " No. 1. Twenty miles north of Auckland Island ; 85 fathoms." (Mayne.) 

 Shell sand with Polyzoa and Ostracoda. Rich in Foraminifera. 



(5.) " Ten miles north of Enderby Island ; 85 fathoms." (Waite.) 

 Shell sand with Polyzoa and Ostracoda. Foraminifera very abundant. The 

 families Miliolidae and Lagenidae both well represented. 



