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I have placed the broken specimen, figured by the authors above 

 named, provisionally under this species, but it is impossible to speak 

 with much confidence on so slender a groundwork. 



Family VIII. GLOBIGERINIDJE. 



Globigerina, d'Orbigny. 



Glohigerina hulloides, d'Orbigny. 



Olohigerina hulloides, d'Orbigny, 1826, Ann. Sci. Nat., vol. vii. p. 277, 



No. 1 ;— Modeles, No. 17 (young) and No. 76. 



Williamson, 1858, Eec. For. Gt. Br., p. 56, 



pi. V. figs. 116-118. 



Comparatively rare on the east coast ; common at some distance from 



land on the Atlantic shores. 



Olohigerina injlata, d'Orbigny. 



Globigerina injlata, d'Orbigny, 1839, Foram. Canaries, p. 134, pi. ii. 

 figs. 7-9. 

 Wright, 1881, Proc. Belfast Nat. Field Club, 

 1880-81, Appendix, p. 186. 

 South Donegal (Wright) ; Irish Sea (Balkwill and Wright) ; south- 

 west of Ireland (Wright) ; shore-sand, Galway (Balkwill and Millett) ; 

 Mount's Bay, Cornwall (Millett) ; Shetland (Brady). 



Glohigerina rubra, d'Orbigny. 



Glohigerina rubra, d'Orbigny, 1839, Foram. Cuba, p. 94, pi. iv. 

 figs. 12-14. 

 „ „ Wright, 1886, Proc. R. Irish Acad., ser. 2, vol. iv. 



(Science) p. 613. 

 South-west of Ireland, 100 to 200 fathoms, rare (Wright). 



Glohigerina wquilateralis, Brady. 



Globigerina sequilateralis, Brady, 1879, Quart. Journ. Micr. Sci., 



vol. xix. N.S. p. 285. 

 Wright, 1886, Proc. E. Irish Acad., ser. 2, 

 vol. iv. (Science) p. 613. 

 South-west of Ireland, 48-120 fathoms, rare (Wright) ; Shetland 

 (Brady). 



Orbulina, d'Orbigny. 



Orbulina universa, d'Orbigny. 



Orbulina universa, d'Orbigny, 1839, Foram. Cuba, p. 3, pi. i. fig. 1. 



Williamson, 1858, Eec. For. Gt. Br., p. 2, pi. i. 



fig. 4. 

 Eare near land, but in deeper water not uncommon, especially on the 

 south and west coasts. Shallow- water specimens often of brown colour. 

 Double specimens, the Glohigerina bilobata of d'Orbigny, occasionally 

 met with where the species is plentiful. 



