Miscellaneous. 365 



lituate Lituolce that come under Reuss's genus Uaplophragmium', as 

 indicated by our author ; biit they do not require new names. 



PL 25 has LinguUncB and GlanduUnce, figs. 1-11, undeserving of 

 the new names given them. Of figs. 12-20, grouped as Cornuspirce 

 (six new species), we think that figs. 12, 13, 16 are Trochammina 

 incerta, varieties ; figs. 14, 17, 18, 19, concavo-convex simple Invo- 

 lutince ; fig. 15, apparently identical with D'Orbigny's Soldania limia 

 and S. orhicidaris, which are both referred with doubt to Cornuspira 

 by Mr. Parker and his colleagues in Ann. Nat. Hist. Oct. 1871, 

 p. 238, pi. 8. figs. 1, 2. Figs. 20-26 are interesting specimens of 

 Lagena globosa and some attenuate varieties, with (fig. 22) a prickly 

 variety. Figs. 27-29, however, though Lageniform, are most pro- 

 bably Saccammince — that is, rough Lituoline Foraminifers, unilocular 

 in growth. PI. 26 (thirty figures) illustrates various conditions of 

 Nodosaria rapJicmus. A few such (figs. 1-4) occur also in pi. 27, which 

 is mainly occupied by variations of If. radicula, passing into the 

 variable Dentalina communis (figs. 5-34). The same may be said of 

 pi. 28. Figs. 1-17 of pi. 29 belong to the same category ; but fig. 18 

 (" N. agglutinans ") is most likely a Nodosariform Lituola. Figs. 

 1 9-30 are arranged in three species of Wehhina ; but figs. 19 & 30, 

 though doubtful, must go with figs. 20-23, 25 & 26, as Nid)€adarice ; 

 whilst figs. 24, 27-29 are Webhince. Fig. 24 is a curious, heaped, 

 or acervuline Webbhia. Figs. 25 & 26 may be regarded as typical 

 HubecidaricB. 



Lastly, we must remark that both the Liassic and the Oolitic 

 Foraminifera figured in these Memoirs may, with advantage to the 

 student, be compared with the English specimens from the Upper 

 Keuper (Rhsetic ?) Clay, figured by Jones and Parker in the Geol. 

 Soc. Journ. vol. xvi. 1860, pis. 19 «fe 20, and with those from the 

 Lias figured by H. B. Brady in the Proc. Somerset. Archaeol. Nat. 

 Hist. Soc. xiii. 1867, pis. 1-3. A very large proportion of M. Ter- 

 quem's species and varieties will be there found, with the old names 

 applied to them. Similar forms occur in the Upper Triassic strata 

 of Saint Cassian and Raibl, as figured by Dr. C. Giimbel in the 

 ' Jahrbuch k. k. geol. Reichsanstalt,' xix. 1869 ; and Reuss, Schwager, 

 and others have published Jurassic Foraminifera of the same types. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 

 Note on the Ptilornis Alberti. By G. R. Gray. 



Mk. Elliot, in the ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society,' just 

 published, has made some remarks on the adoption of a MS. name 

 that I gave some years ago to the Northern-Australian Ptilornis, 

 when observing the difi'erences which appeared to exist between it 

 and that of New Guinea. Mr. Elliot is right in remarking that I 

 had never published, but he is wrong in stating that I never "wrote" 

 any account of it. The reasons of the non-publication were : — 

 1. That Mr. Gould had already fully described and beautifully 



