NODOSARIA PROXIMA. 219 



4. NoDOSARiA PROXIMA, Silvestvi, 1872. Plate IV, fig. 8 (" N. scalaris ") ; Plate VII, 



fig. 15. 



Part I, 1866, page 52 {N. scalaris) ; and Append. I and II, Tables, No. 38. 



NoDOSAEiA Catesbti, d'Ori., 1839. Foram. Cuba, p. 16, pi. i, figs. 8 — 10. 



— scALAEis,^ J"., p., and B., 1866. Monogr. Foram. Crag, p. 52, pi. iv, 



fig. 8. 



— (D.) CEASSA, Hantkeii, 1868. Magyar foldt tars, munk., vol. iv, p. 86, 



pi. i, fig. 15. 



— BACiLLOiDES, Idem, 1868. Ibid., p. 86, pi. i, figs. 9 a — c. 



— PEOXiMA, Silvestri, 1872. Atti Accad. Gioenia Sci. Nat., n. s., vol. vii, 



p. 63, pi. vi, figs. 138—147. 



— VAEiABiLis (?), Terquem and Berthelin, 1875. Mem. Soc. Geol. 



France, ser. 2, vol. x, Mem. No. 3, 

 p. 20, pi. i (xi), figs. 19 a—/; 



— CEASSA, Rantken, 1875 (1881). Mitth. Jahrb. K. Ungar, gaol. Ges., 



vol. iv, p. 28, pi. xiiijfig. 4. 



— BACiLLOiDEs, Idem, 1875 (1881). Ibid., p. 27, pi. ii, fig. 8. 



— PEOXIMA, Brady, 1884. Report " Challenger," p. 511, pi. ixiv, fig. 15. 



— — Fornasini, 1888. Boll. Soc. Geol. Ital., vol. vii, p. 48, pi. iii, 



figs. 10, 11 (somewhat marginuline). 



— MTJTABiLis, Crich and Sherb., 1891. Journ. Northampton Nat. Hist. 



Soc, vol. vi, p. 214, pi. vi, 

 figs. 7, 8. 



— PEOXIMA, Terrigi, 1891. Mem. Comitate Geol. Ital., vol. iv, p. 82, 



pi. ii, fig. 17. 



— — Fornasini, 1894. Mem. E. Accad. Sci. Istit. Bologna, 



ser. 5, vol. iv, p. 206, pi. i, figs. 33 — 

 35 (= iV. trilocularis, Costa). 



These two small Nodosarians from tlie Crag, bilocular and ribbed, having the 

 suture well marked and a projecting mouth-piece, are nearly matched with either 

 the small young or arrested forms of Nodosaria longicauda, d'Orb., in Silvestri's 

 memoir referred to above, p. 58, pi. v, figs. 107, 108, and 118, and var., pi. vi, 

 figs. 133, 134, or, with the small forms, figs. 138 — 147, which he has named N. 

 ^roxima, p. 63. The latter are the nearest to ours, inasmuch as the second 

 segment is smaller and more tapering than the first. The latter feature, namely, 

 the delicate lagenoid second chamber, is emphasised in N. pupoides, Silv., p. 65, 

 pi. vi, figs. 148—158. Indeed, all the three so-called "species" {longicauda, proxima, 



1 In the list of synonyms at pp. 52, 53, the names Nodosaria inflata, Reuss, Dentalina inflata, 

 Reuss, and Nodosaria nana, Reuss, should not have been inserted as belonging to the real N. scalaris. 



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