Foraminifera.] SUBANTARCTlC ISLANDS OP NEW ZEALAND. 357 



Discorbina allomorphinoides, Reuss. sp. 



ValvuUna allomorfhinoides, Reuss, 1860, Sitzungsb. d. k. Ak. Wiss. Wien, 

 vol. xl, p. 223, pi. xi, fig. 6. Discorbina allomorfhinoides, Rss. sp., 

 Brady, 1884, Rep. Chall., vol. ix, p. 654, pi. xci, figs. 5, 8. 



Distribution. — Brady records this form from three localities — viz., off the 

 Philippines, off Raine Island, and at Port Jackson. Millett mentions it as having 

 occurred in the Malay Archipelago and off Korea. It has also been found off 

 Dunkerque (Terquem), and in the Adriatic (Fornasini). 



Present Occurrence. — Twenty miles north of Auckland Island ; 85 fathoms ; . one 

 small example. 



Discorbina rarescens, Brady. 



Discorbina rarescens, Brady, 1884, Rep. Chall., vol. ix, p. 651, pi. xc, figs. 2, 

 3, ?4. D. rarescens, Brady, Egger, 1893, Abhandl. k. bayer. Akad. 

 Wiss., cl. ii, vol. xviii, p. 388, pi. xv, figs. 45-47. 



Distribution. — Raine Island and off the PhiUppines (Brady) ; west Africa and 

 Western Australia (Egger). 



Present Occurrence. — Twenty miles north of Auckland Island ; 85 fathoms ; 

 rare. Ten miles north of Enderby Island ; 85 fathoms ; very rare. 



Discorbina biconcava, Parker and Jones. (Plato XVII, figs. 8 a, h.) 



Discorbina biconcava, Parker and Jones, 1865, Phil. Trans., vol. civ, p. 422, 



pi. xix, figs. 10 a-c. D. biconcava, P. & J., Brady, 1884, Rep. Chall., 



vol. ix, p. 653, pi. xci, figs. 2, 3. D. biconcava, P. & J., Egger, 1893, 



Abhandl. k. bayer. Akad. Wiss., cl. ii, vol. xviii, p. 393, pi. xviii, 



figs. 45-47. 



Distribution. — Commonest in the Australian area, having been found by the 



" Challenger " in Bass Strait, Port Jackson, and off Raine Island. Egger found it 



off New Guinea. It has also been recorded from Melbourne, and from Storm Bay, 



Tasmania. Of other widely separated localities may be mentioned the Dee Estuary, 



England (Siddall), and the Gulf of Mexico (Flint). 



Present Occurrence.— OS. the Snares ; 60 fathoms ; one example. 



Genus Truncatulina, d'Orbigny, 1826. 

 Truncatulina refulgens, Montfort sp. 



Cibicides refulgens, Montfort, 1808, Conch. Syst., vol. i, p. 122, 31'' genre. 

 Truncatulina refulgens, Montfort sp., Egger, 1893, p. 401, pi. xvi, 

 figs. 31-33. T. refulgens, Monti, sp., Chapman, 1898, Journ. R. Micr. 

 Soc, p. 1, pi. i, fig. 1. 



Distribution. — Found in the North Atlantic ; also in the temperate zone of the 

 Southern Hemisphere (Brady). This is its first occurrence in the New Zealand area. 



Present Occurrence. — Twenty miles north of Auckland Island ; 85 fathoms ; 

 rare ; typical. Ten miles north of Enderby Island ; 85 fathoms ; very rare. 



