Rhatic Foraminifera from Somerset. 313 
Description of the Foraminifera from Wedmore. 
Family Lituolide. 
Subfamily Lrrvorine. 
Reopuax, Montfort, 1808. 
1. Reophax difflugiformis, Brady. (Pl. XI. fig. 1.) 
Reophax difflugiformis, Brady, 1879, Quart. Journ. Micr. Sci. vol. xix. 
n.s. p.51, pl. iv. figs. 3a,b; id. 1884, Chall. Rep. vol. ix. p. 289, 
pl. xxx. figs. 1-5; Heeusler, 1885, Neues Jahrb. f. Min., Beil. Bd. iv. 
p- 9, pl.i. fig.J ; id. 1890, Abhandl. Schweiz. paleontogr. Gesellsch. 
vol. xvii. p. 26, pl. ill. figs. 1-3, pl. v. figs. 25-27. 
This simple form is represented in the Rhetic washings 
by one example only, although many of the irregular flask- 
shaped aggregates common in the sand are probably the arena- 
ceous tests of similar organisms. The specimen resembles 
very closely the figure given by Dr. Brady in the ‘ Challenger’ 
Report in pl. xxx. fig. 5. Lt. diflugiformis has been lately 
described by Dr. Heeusler from the Upper Jurassic beds of 
Switzerland; and it is also known as a fossil from beds of 
post-tertiary age. 
In recent soundings it is unrestricted as regards depth. 
From the Rheetie of bed no. 2, Wedmore; one specimen. 
HAPLOPHRAGMIUM, Reuss, 1860. 
2. Haplophragmium agglutinans (VOrbigny). 
(Pl. XI. tigs. 2 a, b.) 
Spirolina agglutinans, d’Orbigny, 1846, Foram. Foss. Vienne, p. 137, 
pl. vii. figs. 10-12. 
Sprrolina simplex, Reuss, 1855, Sitzungsb. k. Ak, Wiss. Wien, vol. xviii. 
p- 282, pl. ii. fig. 30. 
Haplophragmium rectum, Brady, 1876, Monogr, Carb. and Perm. 
Foram. (Pal. Soc.) p. 66, pl. vill. figs. 8, 9. 
Haplophragmium agglutinans, Brady, 1884, Chall. Rep. vol. ix. p. 301, 
pl. xxxii. figs, 19-26; Sherborn and Chapman, 1889, Journ. Roy. 
Mier. Soe. p. 484, pl. xi. fig. 8; Heeusler, 1890, Abhandl. Schweiz, 
paleontogr. Gesellsch. vol. xvii. p. 26, pl. ili. figs. 32-56, pl. iv. 
figs. 5, 6,18; Chapman, 1892, Journ. Roy. Micr. Soc. p. 324, pl. v. 
fig. 14, 
The Rheetic specimens of £/. agglutinans closely resemble 
the forms which Dr. Brady described from Carboniferous 
rocks, but differ in many slight details from those of later 
ages. The species is known from nearly all fossiliferous 
strata from the Carboniferous formation upwards. 
Occurs in the Rheetic of Wedmore, in bed no. 2; rare. 
