Foraminifera.] SUBANTARCTIC ISLANDS OF NEW ZEALAND. 3l3 



DESCEIPTION OF THE FORAMINIFERA. 



Fam. MILIOLIDAE. 



Subfam. NUBECULARIINAE. 



Genus Nubecularia, Defiance, 1825. 



Nubecularia lucifuga, Defiance. 



Nubecularia lucifuga. Defiance, 1825, Diet. Sci. Nat., vol. xxv, p. 210 ; 

 Atlas Zooph., pi. xliv, fig. 3. N. lucifuga, Defi., Biady, 1884, Rep. 

 Chall., vol. ix, p. 134, pi. i, figs. 9-16. N. lucifuga, Defi., Eggei, 1893, 

 Abhandl. d. k. bayei. Akad. d. Wiss., cl. ii, vol. xviii, p. 250, pi. xxi, 

 figs. 4-7. N. lucifuga, Defr., Millett, 1898, Jouin. R. Mici. Soc, p. 261, 

 pi. V, fig. 7. 



The example found heie almost exactly lesembles fig. 3 of the " Challengei " 

 Report, and is of the adheient and spiial type of shell. The attached suiface shows 

 veiy impeifect septation ; the uppei surface is lugose and pitted. 



Distribution. — N. lucifuga has been pieviously lecoided (as a variety) fiom the 

 New Zealand aiea by Di. Rudolf Haeuslei,* who found it in shallow watei at the 

 Hauraki Gulf. The " Challengei " obtained it fiom one station only, at Tongatabu, 

 Friendly Islands (18 fathoms). It has also been lecoided fiom the shoie-sands 

 neai Melbourne, Austialia, and fiom the coast of Tripoli ; whilst it is abundant on 

 the shoies of the Mediteiianean (as at Paleimo, Sicily, T. Rupt. Jones coll. in the 

 authoi's cabinet), and in the East and West Indies. Depaupeiated examples 

 occasionally tuin up on the Devonshire coast, in England. Di. Eggei has also 

 lecoided it fiom the neighbouihood of Keiguelen Island, and Mi. Millett fiom the 

 Malay Archipelago. 



Present Occurrence. — Off the Snaies ; 60 fathoms ; one specimen. 



Subfam. MILIOLININAE. 

 Genus Biloculina, d'Oibigny, 1826, 



Biloculina depressa, d'Orbigny. 



Biloculina depressa, d'Oibigny, 1826, Ann. Sci. Nat., vol. vii, p. 298, No. 7. 

 B. depressa, d'Oib., Biady, 1884, Rep. Chall., vol. ix, p. 145, pi. ii, 

 figs. 12, 16, 17 ; pi. iii, figs. 1, 2. B. depressa, d'Oib., Schlumbeigei, 

 1891, Mem. Soc. Zool. Fiance, vol. iv, p. 547, pi. ix, figs. 48, 49 ; 

 woodcuts, figs. 1-5. 



A few of oui shells exhibit the aboial piolongation which is seen to occui in 

 Recent examples, and so frequently in the Tertiary specimens fiom Victoria and 

 elsewhere. The deep-watei variety, murrhyna, appeals to be absent fiom these 

 soundings. 



* Trans. N.Z., Inst. vol. xix, 1887, p. 197. 



