TERTIARY FORAMINIFERA OF VICTORIA. 25 



70-120 fathoms. Mr. Howchin, in his report on the Muddy Creek foramini- 

 £era, referred to this species as a MS. species of Brady's, being unaware of the 

 fact that Brady himself had briefly described the species previously. 



The earlier record for this form is the Lower Bed of Muddy Creek. 



Occurrence. — Grice's Creek, frequent; Balcombe's Bay, common; Altona 

 Bay Coal-Shaft, frequent. 



Genus LiTUOLA, Lamarclc. 



LiTUOLA SIMPLEX, Chapman. (Plate 3. fig. 52.) 



Lituola simplex, Chapman, 1904, Eec. Geol. Survey Vict. vol. i. pt. 3, p. 228, pi. 22. 

 figs. 3, 4. 



The Balcombian specimen figured appears to be in every way comparable 

 with the above form, which was found in the Jan Jukian clays of Brown's 

 Creek, Otway Coast, Victoria. 



Occurrence. — Altona Bay Coal-Shaft, very rare. 



Family TEXTULARIID^. 



Subfamily Textulariin^. 

 Genus Textularia, Defrance. 



Textularia gramen, d'OrUgny. (Plate 3. fig. 5.3.) 



Texhilaria gramen, d'Orbigny, 1846, Foram. Foss. Vienne, p. 248, pi. 15. figs. 4-6 ; 

 Fornasini, 1887, Boll. Soc. Geol. Ital. vol. vi. p. 399, pi. 11. figs. A a, h ; Howchin, 1889, 

 Trans. R. Soc. S, Australia, vol. xii. p. 7. 



This species is well-known as a Tertiary fossil. Besides being of short 

 habit, the test has no spiral commencement as in Spiroplecta sagittula,^^^\i\c\l 

 in some respects it resembles. 



T. gramen was recorded by Howchin from the Lower Bed of Muddy 

 Creek, and it has also been found by Vine in the Port Phillip Tertiaries. 



Occurrence. — Grice^s Creek, frequent ; Balcombe's Bay, frequent ; Kackera- 

 boite Creek, rare. 



Textularia gibbosa, d'OrUgny. (Plate 3. fig. 54.) 



Textularia gibbosa, d'Orbigny, ]826, Ann. Sci. Nat. vol. vii. p. 262, No. 6, Modele No. 28 ; 

 Fornasini, 1903, Mem. Accad. Sci. 1st. Bologna, ser. V. vol. x. p. 300, pi. 0. fig. 1. 



This species and the following variety are undoubtedly closely allied. 

 Specimens which belong to the type form T. gibbosa are essentially conoidal. 

 They resemble T. agglutinans but with a short aborally pointed test, and the 

 chambers are nearly flush with the shell-surface. 



T. gibbosa is of frequent occurrence in the Tertiaries (Pliocene), and the 

 shore-sand, of the Adriatic region. It has been recorded by Howchin from 

 the Lower Bed of Muddy Creek, and by Vine from the Port Phillip Tertiaries, 



