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suggestions and criticisms. I also wish to express appreciation to 

 Mr. M. N. Bramlette for the collection made by him, and to Drs. H. G. 

 Kugler, P. Leuzinger, P. A. Messmann, A. Senn, and L. Vonder- 

 schmitt of the North Venezuelan Petroleum Company, Ltd., for other 

 collections, and to Dr. Ruthven Pike for collections made by him. 



Special thanks are due Dr. H. G. Kugler, who furnished maps and 

 geologic information regarding the collections ; and to Dr. K. C. Heald, 

 staff geologist of the Gulf Companies, for permission to publish 

 accounts of the material collected by Mr. Bramlette. 



After the manuscript of this paper was completed and ready to go 

 to press, a paper including many of the same localities was published 

 by Nettie E. Gorter and I. M. van der Vlerk (25, pp. 94-122).* As 

 my paper contains material from additional localities and also several 

 new species, it is not a complete duplication and therefore appears 

 to M^arrant publication. 



REVIEW OF LITERATURE 



In 1922 Tobler (44, pp. 380-84) described a new genus and species 

 of Hclicolcpidina spiralis, which he referred to as a subgenus of 

 Lcpidocyclina from the upper Eocene of Trinidad and Venezuela. 

 Hclicolepidina has since been raised to the rank of genus. 



Wiedenmayer in 1924 (68, pp. 508-12) reported the occurrence 

 of abundant Lcpidocyclina in the Cerro Campana limestone of East 

 Falcon. 



In 1924 H. Douville (22, pp. 35-42) referred to the occurrence of 

 L. (Lepidocyclina) trinifatis H. Douville and specimens which ap- 

 peared to be L. (Lepidocyclina) pustulosa H. Douville on the margin 

 of Lake Maracaibo. 



In 1926 Mrs. Hodson (27, pp. 1-46) reported the occurrence of 

 the following species of larger Tertiary foraminifera in Venezuela: 



Helicolepidina spiralis Tobler 



tenuis H. K. Hodson 

 Discocycliiia mirandana H. K. Hodson 



A number of names were applied to specimens from Trinidad and 

 Venezuela. Only those occurring in Venezuela are listed below. 

 Cisseis was erroneously used as a generic name. Vaughan {62, p. 3) 

 states " It is probable that most or all of them are variants of Astero- 

 cyclina asterisca (Guppy)." 



^ Numbers in parentheses refer to list of literature cited, printed at the end 

 of this article. 



