FROM THE FUNAFUTI ATOLL. 9 
Near Pava Id., fairly numerous on fragments of Mullepere at 
63 fathoms. 
Fig. 1—Bdelloidina aggregata, Carter from the Chalk of Kent. (From a 
drawing lent by Prof Rupert Jones of a specimen in the Collection of the 
late Matthew Wright.) 
Funamanu Id. (Beacon Id.), on Turbinaria, 50 fathoms 
(dredged by Prof. David and Mr. Finckh). 
8S. of Fuafatu Id., in the interior of molluscan shells, 
25 fathoms. 
“To” S. of Fuafatu Id., 60 fathoms. 
Family TEXTULARITD. 
Subfamily TEXTULARIINS. 
Vaxtvuina, d’ Orbigny [1526]. 
Vautvuina Daviprana, sp. noy. (PI. 1. fig. 4.) 
Test triangular, chambers triserially arranged and forming a 
more or less equilateral cone; aperture situated in a sub- 
erescentic depression, with a tooth-like valve projecting across, 
and sometimes a secondary cne nearly meeting from the opposite 
side. Texture somewhat coarsely arenaceous, composed of 
caleareous particles; colour white to pale cream. Length 
zs inch (1 mm.). 
The above species belongs to the same type as d’Orbigny’s 
Valwulina triangularis from the Tertiary beds of the Paris 
Basin*. The specimens from Funafuti differ, however, in having 
* Aun. Sci, Nat., vol. vii. 1826, p. 270, No. 1; Modéles, No. 25. 
