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Report on Foraminifera. By F. W. Millett. 
Sub-Family Pilulininge. 
Technitella Norman. 
TechniteUa legumen Norman, plate IV. fig. 4. 
T. legumen Norman, 1878, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 5, 
vol. i. p. 279, pi. xvi. figs. 3, 4. T. legumen (Norman) Goes, 1894, 
Kongl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., vol. xxv. p. 14, pi. iii. figs. 20-27. 
Much has been written on the subject of the powers possessed by 
the Foraminifera of selecting not only the material for the construc- 
tion of their test, but also the size and form of the different particles. 
Typically, the test of Technitella should be a dense mass of spicules 
felted together and mixed with fine grains of sand, as is well shown in 
the figures by Goes. In all the Malay Archipelago specimens the test is 
constructed on a different plan, being simply a single layer of spicules 
cemented together side by side in parallel series, forming patches in 
which the direction of the spicules with regard to the axis of the test 
varies in different portions of the shell. The Marquis de Folin has 
figured numerous interesting examples of this form of construction, 
and has assigned to them the generic names of Bioxeia, Trioxeia , 
Rhabdaminella , and Hyperaminella. The affinity of this form with 
Reophax is very close, and is especially apparent when considered in 
relation to specimens of R. ampullacea, formed of thin laminae, which 
occur in its company. In the Malay specimens the test is slightly 
compressed, and the general colour a light reddish brown. 
It is found abundantly at several Stations in both Areas. 
Sub-Family Saccammininge. 
Psammosphsera Schulze. 
Psammospheera fusca F. E. Schulze. 
P.fusca Schulze, 1875, II. Jahresb. Komm. Untersuch. deutsch. 
Meere in Kiel, p. 113, pi. ii. fig. 8. P. fusca (Schulze) Haeusler, 
1883, Neues Jahrbuch fur Min., vol. i. p. 57, pi. iii. fig. 1. P. (Indet.) 
de Folin, 1887, Le Naturaliste, p. 127, fig. 13. P.fusca (Schulze) 
de Folin, 1888, Ibid., p. 110, figs. 4, 5. P.fusca (Schulze) Haeusler, 
1890, Abhandl. schweiz. palaont. Gesell., vol. xvii. p. 15, pi. i. figs. 
1-3. P. fusca (Schulze) Goes, 1894, K. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Hand!, 
vol. xxv. p. 14, pi. iii. fig. 19. P. fusca (Schulze) Grzybowski, 
1896, Kozpr. Wydz. mat.-przy. Akad. Umiej w. Krakowic, vol. xxx. 
p. 274, pi. viii. fig. 14. 
The specimens as usual vary considerably in size, but in all 
the test is composed of minute grains of sand. 
It is very generally distributed in both Areas. 
