586 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



LI. XOTES ox A S:5IALL CoXUECTIOX OF FoEAHEDfrFEIlA. FEOil THE 



Seychelles. Ey E. Peecetai Weight, M. D., Secretaiy to the 

 Academy. 



[Eead Jamiaiy 24, 1876.] 



"While at tlie Seyclielles, in 1867, I made several collections of the 

 Foramiuifera met "nith Tvhile dredping. These were, for the most part, 

 preseiTed in spiiits of wine ; and, unfortunately, were lost. One 

 di-edging, made in ahont eight fathoms of water, oif the entrance of 

 the Harbour of Port Yictoria, between the Island of St. Anne and 

 Long Island, was, however, preserved in a diy state ; the bottom con- 

 sisted for the most part of a coarse, white sand, mixed with fraoments 

 of shells, spicules of alcyonarians. and fragments of coral, and evi- 

 dently contained numbers of Poraminif era. I am indebted to my fiiend 

 Henry Bowman Brady, P. E. S., for the names on the following list : 



PoEA:y:i:s'rFEEA. 



1. Cornuspira, foliacea, Philippi, sp. 



(1844, Orhis foliacei(s, Enum. ]\Ioll. Sicil., vol. ii., p. 147, 

 pi. 24, fig. 26). Medium-sized specimens, rare. 



2. Bilocidina elongata, d'Orbigny. 



(1826, Ann. Sci. IS'at., vol. vii., p. 298, Xo. 1). Pare. 



3. Biloculina contraria, d'OrbigTiy. 



(1846, Por. Poss. Tienne, p. 266, pi. 16, figs. 4—6). Tory rare. 



4. Triloculina iriqonida, Lamarck, sp. 



(1804, Miliolites irigonida, Ann. Mus., vol. v., p. 351, Xo. 3). 

 Ptare. 



5. Trilomdina ollonga, Montagu, sp. 



(1803, Vermiculum ohlongum, Test. Brit., p. 522, pi. 14, fig. 9). 

 Pare. 



6. TriJondina Brongniartiana, d'OrbigTiy. 



(1840, Foram. Cuba, p. 156, pi. 10, figs. 6-8). Somewhat rare. 



7. Qiiinquelocidina semimdum, Linne, sp. 



(1767, Serpida semimdum, Syst. '^aX., 12th ed., p. 1264, Xo. 

 791). Bather common. 



8. Quinquelondina sulrotunda, Montagu, sp. 



(1803, Yermindum sulrotundinn, Test. Brit., p. 521). Pare. 



9. QuinqueJocidina Fenis-sacii, d'Orbigny. 



(1826, Ann. Sci. jS'at., vol. vii., p. 301, Xo. 18 — Modele, 



]S"o. 32). 

 10. Quijtquelocid ina agghdinans, d'Orbigny. 



(1840, Foram. Cuba, p. 158, "pi. 12, figs. 11-13). Yery 



common. 



