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PLAMSPIEII^A, Seguenza. 
Planispirina contraria, d'Orbigny, sp. 
Eiloculina contraria, d'Orbigny, 1846, Eor. Poss. Yien., p. 262, 
pi. xvi. figs. 4-6. 
Common at 53 fathoms. 
OPHTHALMIDirM, Kiibler. 
Opbthalmidium inconstans, Brady. 
Hauerina inconstans, Brady, 1879, Quart. Journ. Micr. Sci., 
vol. xix. (IN". S.) p. 54 ; Opbthalmidium inconstans, Id. 1844, 
" Challenger " Eep., p. 189, pi. xii. figs. 5, 7, 8. 
Two specimens found at 750 fathoms. 
Ophthalmidium carinatum, Balkwill and Wright. 
Opbthalmidium carinatum, Balkwill and Wright, 1885, Trans. 
E,oy. Irish Acad., vol. xxviii. (Science) p. 326, pi. xii. figs. 
13-16. 
Dr. Brady, in his Synopsis of '^British Recent P or aminif era," 
has given this form as a synonym of the preceding species. I 
am, however, inclined to regard them as sufficiently distinct for 
separate binomial terms. 0. carinatum differs from 0. inconstans 
in its much smaller size, and in its having septate chambers 
throughout its entire growth ; the contour of the chambers is 
also dissimilar. 
It has been found at many places around the Irish Coast both 
in dredgings and shore gatherings, but is rare where it occurs, 
seldom more than one or two specimens being met with at any 
one place. Typical examples of both 0. carinatuyn and 0. in- 
constans were found at log 5, 750 fathoms. 
Yery rare ; 7 fathoms and 750 fathoms. 
Sub-family^ Peneeoplidin^. 
COPNUSPIEA, Schultze. 
Cornuspira foliacea, Philippi, sp. 
Orbis foliaceus, Philippi, 1844, Enum. Moll. Sicil., vol. ii. p. 
147, pi. xxiv. fig. 26. 
Yery rare at 7 fathoms. 
