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Noposarta Simonrana, Terquem, 1858. Meém. Acad. Metz, Année xxxix, p. 587, pl. 1, 
figs. 4 a, 6. 
— PRIMA, Id. Ib., p. 589, pl. 1, figs. 6 a, 6. 
— RADICULA, Williamson, 1858. Ree. For. Gt. Br., p. 15, pl. 2, figs. 36—38. 
— NANA, Reuss, 1860. Sitz. Akad. Wien., vol. xl, p. 35, pl. 1, fig. 6. 
— LONGICAUDA, Parker and Jones, 1860. Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xvi, 
p. 302; 1862, in Carpenter’s Introd., Append., p. 310. 
— — Brady, 1864. Trans. Linn. Soc., vol. xxiv, p. 473. 
— scaALaRis, P., J., and Brady, 1865. Ann. Nat. Hist., 3rd ser., vol. xv, 
p. 227. 
— — Parker and Jones, 1865. Phil. Trans., vol. clv, p. 340, pl. 16, 
figs. 2 a—c; pl. 18, fig. 13. 
— ANNULATA, Costa (n.d.) Foram. Foss. Terz. Messin., p. 13, pl. 1, fig. 16. 
Characters.—-Shell straight, generally composed of from two to five chambers. Second 
chamber often smaller than the first, otherwise each succeeding chamber larger than that 
immediately preceding it. Chambers ventricose. Ornamentation, a number of neat parallel 
costz, generally continuous from end to end of the shell. Pseudopodial aperture at the 
suminit of the elongated neck of the ultimate segment, and often lipped. 
This is a common variety of Wodosaria, of altogether feebler growth, and having fewer 
chambers, than JV. raphanius ; the shell, too, is thinner and more hyaline. The specimen 
from which our figure is taken is a very small, two-chambered, unique individual from the 
Bridlington Crag, in Mr. H. C. Sorby’s collection. , 
NV. scalaris is the most common recent Nodosaria, and it is found sparingly in all 
temperate and tropical seas. Its geological distribution is similar to that of WV. raphanus, 
being known in the Secondary formations, and occurring in various strata up to the 
later Tertiary clays, in which it is not uncommon. 
Subgenus—Dentaina, D’ Orbigny. 
Ortuoceras, Gualtieri, Martini. 
Navrius, Linné, Schréter, Batsch, Gmelin, Turton, Montagu, Maton and Rackett, 
Pennant, Dillwyn, Wodareh. 
Ortuocera, Lamarck, Brown, Fleming, Hanley, Thorpe. 
Noposaria, Lamarck, Defrance, D’Orbigny, Brown, Nilsson, Hisinger, Minster and 
Roemer, Michelotti, Parker and Jones, Reuss, Carpenter. 
Dentattna, D’ Orbigny, Risso, Bronn, Ehrenberg, Macgillivray, S. Wood and Morris, 
Reuss, Czjzek, Alth, Cornuel, Jones, Bayley, Eiehwald, Schultze, 
Bornemann, Parker and Jones, Williamson, Terquem, Neuegeboren, 
Karrer, Brady, Stache. 
General characters.—Shell awl-shaped, subcylindrical, tapering, curved ; composed 
