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tinguislies these from the “ warm-area ” from those from the “ cold- 
area,” and gives a note of the quantity of each species that is found. In 
all, 228 species and varieties are recognized, 180 of which are found in 
the warm and 120 in the cold area. A description is appended of 
Hyperammina palmiformis sp. n., which is most interesting on account 
of its arborescent distal extremity. 
Foraminifera of Older Tertiary of Australia.* — Mr. W. Howchin 
reports that the Muddy Creek beds contain one of the richest local 
faunae known, either recent or fossil ; no one locality in the British area 
of the rich Suffolk Crag has yielded more than 62 species, while the 
lower bed at Muddy Creek has yielded 163, and the Upper Bed 76 
species. There is a close resemblance in the number of species noted 
by Mr. Brady from the remarkably rich dredging made by the ‘ Chal- 
lenger 5 in Torres Straits and that of Muddy Creek, while many of the 
rarer forms are common to both. 
* Trans. Proc. and Rep. Roy. Soc. South Australia, xii. (1889) pp. 1-20 (1 pi.). 
