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years and has sent me an extraordinary lot of material. He has added 

 to the number of species that I obtained there in 1914 five new 

 species and a new variety, and the records of the occurrence there of 

 three other species are based on collections made by him. Others who 

 have sent me material from Antigua are Mr. F. W. Penny, the late 

 Prof. A. O. Thomas, and Dr. C. A. Matley. 



To all those who have helped in assembling the large collections 

 on which this paper is based, I extend my hearty thanks. 



In the final stages of the preparation of the manuscript and plates 

 for this report, I have had the assistance of Dr. W. Storrs Cole of the 

 department of geology of Ohio State University. Dr. Cole is the 

 author of a number of papers on the foraminifera of Mexico and of 

 the Gulf Coastal Plain in Florida and Texas. His scientific knowledge 

 and technical skill have been invaluable, and I am most grateful to him. 

 He has helped with the descriptions of a number of the new species 

 and varieties. The following six new species and two new varieties 

 are published jointly by us : 



Lepidocyclina parmila var. crassicosta Vaughan and Cole 

 antignetisis Vaughan and Cole 

 hodgensis Vaughan and Cole 

 wether ell ensis Vaughan and Cole 

 tempanii Vaughan and Cole 

 semmesi Vaughan and Cole 



var. granosa Vaughan and Cole 

 tantoyucensis Vaughan and Cole 



The types of all new species and new varieties are deposited in the 

 United States National Museum. 



NOTES ON EARLIER LITERATURE 

 Three attempts have been made to give summary accounts of the 

 American species of Lepidocyclina. The first was by Cushman ; * the 

 second was by H. Douville ; ^ the third was by myself.' Since the pub- 

 lication of these papers many additional articles have been published, 

 anl there begins to be need for another monographic summary. 



There are in the present paper no descriptions or figures of a few 

 species, the names of which occur in subsequent lists in this paper. 



^ Cushman, J. A., American species of Orthophragmina and Lepidocyclina. 

 U.S. Geol. Surv. Prof. Pap. 125, pp. 39-105, pis. 7-35, text fig. 3, 1920. 



* Douville, H., Revision des Lepidocyclines. Soc. Geol. France, Mem., n.s., 

 vol. I, no. 2, pt. I, pp. 1-49, pis. I, 2, text figs. 1-48, 1924; pt. 2, pp. 50-115, pis. 

 3-7, text figs. 49-83. 1925- 



'Vaughan, T. W., American and European Tertiary larger foraminifera. 

 Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer., vol. 35, pp. 785-822, pis. 30-36, 6 text figs., 1924. 



