252 FORAMINIFERA OF THE CRAG. 



PoLTMOEPHiNA LACTEA, Parker, Jones, and Brady, 1871. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 



ser. 4, vol. viii, pp. 170, 171, No. 64, 

 pi. xi, fig. 104 (after Soldani). 

 GrTJTTULiNA DiSPAEiLis, Terquem, 1874. Poram. Syst. Oolithique, p. 309, pi. xxxiii, 



fig. 23. 

 PoLTMOBPHiNA MuENSTERi, Hantken, 1875. Mitth. Jahrb. k. Ungar. geol. Anst., 



p. 61, pi. vii, fig. 16. 



— LACTEA, Terquem, 1875. Plage Dunkerque, p. 37, pi. v, fig. 12. 

 Gtjttulina communis, Idem, 1875. Ibid., fig. 13. 



PoLTMOEPHiNA lACTEA, Brady and Bohertson, 1875. Keport Brit. Assoc, for 1874, 



p. 190. 



— — Siddall, 1878. Proc. Chester Soc. K Sci,, No. 2, p. 54. 



— BUCCULENTA, Berthelin, 1880. Mem. Soc. Geol. Fr., ser. 3, vol. i, 



p. 58, pi. xxvii, figs. 16, 17. 



Globttlina tabians, Terquem, 1882. Ibid., ser. 3, vol. ii, p. 128, pi. xiii, figs. 9, 15. 



PoLTMOEPHiNA LACTEA, Brady, 1884. ' Challenger ' Eeport, p. 559, pi. Ixxi, 



figs. 11, 14, and fistulose form, p. 560, 

 pi. Ixiii, fig. 14. 



— — Gilmbel, 1885. Geol. Bayern, Theil 1, Lief 2, p. 421, 



cut 266, fig. 15. 



— OOLITHICA, Deecke, 1886. Mem. Soc. d'Emul. Montbeliard, vol. 



xvi, p. 37, pi. i, fig. 28. 



— «^. AMY GDALOiDES, Deec/fce, 1886. Ibid., figs. 20, 20 a. 



— BiLocuLAEis, Beecke, 1886. Ibid., vol. xvi, p. o, pi. i, fig. 11. 



— LACTEA, B., p., and J., 1888. Trans. Zool. Soc, vol. xii, pt. 7, 



p. 224r, pi. xliv, fig. 11 (?). 



— — & var. ELONGATA, Burrows, Sherhorn, and Bailey, 1890. 



Journ. R. Micr. Soc, p. 561, pi. xi, 

 figs. 9,10 (?). 



— — Crick and Sherhorn, 1892. Journ. Northamp. Nat. Hist. 



Soc, vol. vii, p. 71, fig. 25. 



— — Bgger, 1893. Abhandl. k. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., vol. xviii, 



Abth. ii, p. 308, pi. ix, figs. 8, 14, 15. 



— ? ELEGANTI8SIMA, Idem, 1893. Ibid., fig. 16. 



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



No. 9, p. 54. 



— — Chapman, 1896. Journ. R. Micr. Soc, p. 9, pi. ii, 



figs. 3, 4. 



Characters. — Shell (typical) ovate, gibbous, slightly asymmetrical; anterior 

 extremity acute; posterior obtuse, rounded. Chambers few, oblong, oblique, 

 somewhat inflated. 



The shell of P. lactea has normally four or five visible chambers, sufficiently 

 ventricose to disturb the regularity of the general outline ; the sutural lines marked 

 by slight depression. In its typical form the transverse section is nearly circular ; 

 but this is a variable character, and the compressed modifications described by 



