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been originally allotted to one of the minor varieties. Neither can there be any doubt 
that the organisms Linne had in mind when writing his description were the very 
common forms, for which the name has been retained by Williamson, Parker and Jones, 
and others in more recent times. D’Orbigny’s notice of the species in the Tableau 
Methodique incidentally confirms this view, inasmuch as the figures that he refers to in 
the works of Soldani, Adams, and Fleming, taken collectively, cover very much the same 
ground. 
Fig. 3. — Miliolina semmulum, Linne, sp. 
a. After Williamson, recent, British. 
b. After Parker and Jones, arctic, x 15 diani. 
c. Fossil, from the Crag, x 16 diam. 
The foregoing woodcuts from published sources, together with the figure PI. V. fig. 6, 
sufficiently indicate the range of form embraced under the Linnean name. The list of 
synonyms drawn up in accordance therewith is somewhat lengthy, but it might without 
difficulty be greatly extended. The closely allied Triloculine variety Miliolina oblonga, 
has been allotted a separate position, though it is open to doubt whether it represents 
anything more than the young or arrested specimens of the same species. In like 
manner sundry forms which have received names on account of morphological 
peculiarities, of no great importance in themselves but apparently of a certain local 
significance, have been retained, when the characters seemed sufficiently well-marked for 
easy recognition. Such subordinate modifications have no claim to be regarded as 
anything more than varieties or subvarieties. 
The anomalous specimen PL V. fig. 15, a.b., is too obviously a monstrosity to require 
a distinctive name. It is the largest Quinqueloculine Miliolci met with in the Challenger 
material, the diameter being ^-th inch (3'7 5 mm.). The segments are irregularly disposed, 
and there are two apertures, both at the same end of the shell. It was found in material 
from Station 246, North Pacific, 2050 fathoms. 
