the Nomenclature of the Foraminifera. 253 



1839. _ This has the following note, which does not appear in 

 the folio work : — 



" rndependamment des especes de Cuba d^crites dans cet ouvrao-e, 

 nous publions en ce moment trois autres faunes locales: 1, celle des 

 Gananes, dans I'ouvrage de xMM. Webb et Berthelot, Histoire naturelle 

 des lies Canaries; 2, celle de FAmiSrique m(5ridionale, dans notre Voyao-e 

 dans 1 Amenque meridionale (une partie speciale) ; 3, faune de la craie 

 blanche du bassin de Paris, dans les Memoires de la Societe i?eoloj?ique 

 de France." (Footnote, p. xlvii.) 



This note, and the fact that references are made in the two 

 shorter papers to the '■ Cuba/ determine the order which should 

 be adopted in anj question of precedence. 



§ 1. D'ORBIGNY'S FORAMINIFERA OF THE ISLAND OF 



CUBA. 



P'Orbigny, in his Cuba Monograph — ' Historia fisica, 

 pohtica J natural de la Isla de Cuba : por D. Ramon de la 

 Sagra ; Foraminiferas por Alcides D'Orbigny,' folio (pp. 180, 

 12 plates), Paris, 1840 [the French edition (8vo) was published 

 m 1839] — describes and figures a few species enumerated in 

 the ' Tableau M(^thodique,' of which no previous description 

 or reference to figures had been published, namely :— 



1. Cristellaria gihha^iyOxh. 



Crktellaria gibha, D'Orb. Ann. Sci. Nat. vol. vii. p. 292. no. 17 : Foram 

 Cuba, p. 63, pi. 7. figs. 20, 21. 



" Hob. The Antilles, and the Mediterranean near Corsica." 



This subvarietj stands between C. rotulata and G. italica. 



2. Dendritina antillarum^ D'Orb. 



Dendritina antillartm, D'Orb, Ann. Sci. Nat. vol. vii. p. 285, no.3 ; Foram 

 Cuba, p, 77, no, 21, pi, 7, figs, 3-6. 



ii 



Hob. The sands of the island of Cuba, rare." 



A flattish specimen of D. arhuscula ; Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 3, 

 vol. V. pp. 179, 180. ' 



3. Rosalina squamosa* ^ D'Orb. 

 Rotalia squamosa, D'Orb. Ann. Sci, Nat. vol. vii. p. 272, no. S. 

 Rosalina squamosa, D'Orb. Foram. Cuba, p. 100. no. 43, pi. 3. tigs. 12-14, 



" Hah. Found plentifully, by D. Ramon de la Sagra, ad- 

 hermg to seaweeds on the shores of Cuba. Occurs also about 

 Jamaica and other of the West-India Islands." 



* Misspelt "squammosa " by D'Orbigny throughout. 

 Ann. & Maff. N. Hist. Ser. 4. Fo?. viii, 19 



