340 MESSES. T. R. JOKES AND F. CHAPMAN 



F. Club, 1873-74 ; Appendix III., 1875, p. 88, pi. iii. fig. 20. 

 — A nearly spherical segment, with four more or less frag- 

 mentary stolon- tubes. Surface smooth. Chalk; Ireland. 

 — Eig. 2. 



4. Bamulina Icevis, Balkwill and Millett, 1884, Journ. Micro- 



scopy, vol. iii. p. 84, pi. iv. fig. 7. — A subtriangular, some- 

 what inflated segment, giving off" four straight or slightly 

 curved tubes. Surface o£ test smooth. Eecent ; Galway, 

 Ireland. — Eig. 3. 



5. Bamulina Bradyi, Ezehak, 1895, Ann. k.-k. naturhist. Hofmus. 



vol. 5. p. 223, pi. vi. fig. 5 ; and B. exigua, Ezehak, 1895, 

 op. cit. p. 223, pi. vi. fig. 4. — Pyriform and subpyriform 

 segments, with tubular extensions. B. exigua exhibits the 

 remnants of tliree tubes at one end. Surface of test smooth ; 

 in B. Bradyi slightly grooved. B. Bradyi was briefly 

 described by Ezehak in 1891, op. cit. vol. vi. part 1, p. 10. 

 Lower Pliocene of Briiderndorf, Lower Austria. — Fig. 4. 



2. Ramulina globulifera, Brady, 1879. 

 Figs. 5-22. 

 Specific Characters. — Test free, branching ; composed of seg- 

 ments of difl'ei-ent sizes, connected by stoloniferous tubes of 

 diverse lengths. Segments from two to eight, or even more, in 

 number ; globular or subglobular ; but sometimes greatly distorted 

 in appearance (when they usually consist of a siugle segment with 

 short straight or curved stolon-tubes projecting at various angles). 

 Each segment provided with numerous stolon-tubes (sometimes 

 radiating from different portions of the periphery), and which 

 terminate in other chambers. The stoloniferous tubes, narrow 

 in proportion to the bulk of the segments, are circular in section. 

 Texture hyaline ; shell-material usually very delicate and thin ; 

 surface hispid or aculeate. 



1. Bamulina glohulif era, Brady, 1879, Quart. Journ. Micr. Sci. 

 n. s. vol. xix. p. 272, pi. viii. tigs. 32, 33. — Test free, con- 

 sisting of from three to seven globular or subglobular 

 chambers, witli many tubulated apertures radiating from 

 various parts of the surface. Chambers connected by some- 

 what long stolon-tubes, usually straight, but sometimes 

 twisted or otherwise distorted. Surface of test covered 

 more or less thickly with fine prickles. The general struc- 



