VAGINULINA LINARIS. 229 



VAGiifULiifA LEGTTMEN, Egger, 1895. Jahresb. Nat. Ver. Passau, vol. xvi, p. 24, 



pi. ii, figs. 4 a, h, 8. 



Characters. — Straight or curved ; chambers more or less compact, smooth. The 

 BridHngton specimen (PL IV, fig. 9) is retained here for comparison with the Crag 

 specimen (PI. V, fig. 8). The former (megalospheric) is straight, compressed, and 

 symmetrical ; the latter (microspheric ?) is curved and tapering ; it is of irregular 

 growth in the later chambers, which are not uniform or compact. 



Ocmrrence. — This, together with the limbate and costate forms, is widely dis- 

 tributed in shallow and deep seas. It occurs fossil, with other Nodosariinse, in the 

 Lias, and many later formations of Secondary, Tertiary, and Post-Tertiary ages. 



2. Vaginulina lin/aris (Montagu), 1808. Plate I, figs. 10 — 12; andPlate V, fig. 7. 



Part I, 1866, pages 66, 67 ; and Appendices I and II, Tables, No. 43. 



Additional Synonyms : 



Maeginulina taginella, Beuss, 1851. Zeitsch. D. G. Ges., vol. iii, p. 152, 



pi. viii, fig. 2. 

 Vaginulina stbiata, Costa, 1856. Atti Accad. Line. Pontan., vol. vii, p. 182, 



pi. xvi, fig. 17. 

 NoDOSAHiA (Vaginulina) legumen, var. linearis, Parher and Jones, 1859. Ann. 



Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, vol. 

 iv, pp. 346 and 351. 

 Vaginulina legumen, var. t,. P., J., and B., 1866. Monogr. Poram. Crag, p. 66 



(add fig. 48 to the reference to Williamson's 

 figures). 



— linearis, lidem, 1866. Ibid., p. 67, pi. i, figs. 10 — 12. 



— — Seguenza, 1880. Atti E. Accad. Line, ser. 3, vol. vi, 



p. 90, No. 247 ; p. 140, No. 636. 

 Mahginulina Bononiensis (?), Fornasini, 1883. Boll. Soc. Geol. Ital., vol. ii, 



p. 187, pi. ii, fig. 7 e,f. 

 Vaginulina linearis, Brady, 1884. Eeport ' Challenger,' p. 532, pi. ixvii, figs. 



10—12. 



— — Be Amicis, 1893. Boll. Soc. Geol. Ital., vol. xii, fase. 3, 



p. 115. 



— — Goes, 1894. K. Svensk. Vet.-Akad. Handl., vol. xxv 



No. 9, p. 66, pi. xii, fig. 664. 



— — Be Amicis, 1895. Nat. Sicil., Ann. xiv, pp. 38 and 62. 



Characters. — The shell is subcylindrical or compressed ; somewhat tapering, 

 straight or bent ; chambers more or less compactly set on. The surface-ornament 



