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XVIII. The Foraminifem of the Kerimba Archipelago (Portuguese East Africa). — 

 Part II. £1/ Edward Heron-Allen, F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.G.S., F.B.M.S., and 

 Akthue Eakland, F.B.M.S. 



[Eeceived February 5, 1915 ; Eead April 27, 1915.] 



(Plates XL.-LIII., and Text-figures 42-44.) 



Index. 



Page 

 Note on Species found at Kerimba, recorded by d'Orbigny in 1826 from lladagasoar 



and Mauritius 543 



List of Species and Varieties recorded as new to Science 5-47 



Systematic List of Species and Varieties 548 



Table of Distribution (and Index) 740 



Bibliography 756 



Explanation of Plates 7W'^^'* 



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Note on Species found at Keeimba, eecoeded by d'Orbigny in 1826 \ 



PEOM Madagascar and Mauritius. ^V^t^/V ->■ !^•-'■' 



As we took occasion to observe in the Introduction, in examining the Kerimba 

 material we have been dealing with what is virtually an untouched area, and it gains an 

 added interest from its comparative proximity to Madagascar and the other islands in 

 the Indian Ocean which supplied d'Orbigny with many forms recorded in his ' Tableau 

 Methodique de la Classe des Cephalopodes '*, which, as Messrs. Parker, Jones, and 

 Brady have observed, " with all its faults, and they are neither few nor small, must be 

 regarded as the alphabet of the nomenclature of the Foraminifera " f. D'Orbigny 

 examined shore-sands from Madagascar, given to him by the geologist of La Rochelle, 

 Pleuriau de Bellevue, from Mauritius (He de France), and similar material from other 

 islands of that group, brought to him by MM. Quoy, Gaimard, and Gaudichaud, the 

 scientific staff that accompanied de Freycinet on his journey round the world, and by 

 M. Lesson, Doctor and Naturalist to the Expedition of Duperrey, all of whose names he 



* ' Annales des Sciences Naturelles,' Paris, vol. vii. 1826, pp. 96-169, 245-314, pis. x.-xvii. 

 t Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1871, ser. 4, vol. viii. p. 145. 



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