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Variations. The rimule-spiramen is unsymmetrical and oblique; it is formed 

 of two lateral lips not arranged on the same plane; one is always higher than the 

 other; the lower is always adjacent to the large avicularium. When the two oval 

 avicularia are symmetrical the rimule is symmetrical. There is, therefore, a certain 

 relation between the functions of the avicularia and the hydrostatic system. The 

 longitudinal section shows a very large ovicell opening into the peristomie above 

 the operculum, and a large septula (multiporous) at the base of the zooecia (fig. 10). 



The tangential section (fig. 8) shows the structure of the frontal, which is a 

 tremocyst with tubules. The convexity of the zooecia allows one to note the sub- 

 jacent olocyst at the edge of the tremocyst (fig. 9). 



Affinities. In the interior the apertura bears a proximal spine forming a sort 

 of lyrula (fig. 7) which disappears easily in fossilization. This species differs 

 from M etradolium sulciferum in its smaller tremopores not arranged at the base 

 of the sulci. 



It differs from M etradolium dissimile in the general absence of zooecia with a 

 spiramen and in the lesser width of the peristomice (lpe0.15 and not 0.20 mm.). 



Occurrence. Middle Jacksonian: Wilmington, North Carolina (very com- 

 mon) ; 3J miles north of Grovania, Georgia (rare) ; 12 miles southeast of Marshall- 

 ville. Georgia (common) ; Rich Hill, Crawford County, Georgia (very common) ; 

 IS miles west of Wrightsville, Georgia (rare) ; 3^ miles south of Perry, Georgia 

 (common) ; near Lenuds Ferry, South Carolina (very common). 



Cotypes.C&i. No. 64121, U.S.N.M. 



METRADOLIUM SULCIFERUM, new species. 



Plate 14, figs. 5-15. 



Description. The zoarium is free, bilamellar, erect; the fronds are com- 

 pressed, narrow, bifurcated. The zooecia are large, elongated, indistinct: the 

 frontal is convex, thick, formed of a tremocyst with tubules, supported by a very 

 thin olocyst, finely perforated with corresponding pores and closely joined. The 

 apertura is formed of a semilunar anter and of a concave poster supporting a very 

 short median lyrula; the peristomice is oblique and is formed of an anter with 

 undefined outlines and an unsymmetrical rimule-spiramen. There are two avicu- 

 laria symmetrically placed on each side of the rimule ; the larger is provided with 

 a pivot and with a very large mandible. 



Measurements. Aperture}, n 10 Peristomice], 



. Ua=0.12 mm. foe=0.16-0.20mm. 



(interior) J (exterior) J 



. \Lz=l. 00-1.25 mm. 

 Zooecia , OA . ... 



170=0.30-0.40 mm. 



Variations. On the young fronds (figs. 6, 12) the median zooecia are unpro- 

 vided with oral avicularia : the lateral zooecia bear only large avicularia. In the 

 normal zooecia, there are two avicularia; the larger is adjacent to the lower lip of 

 the rimule (fig. 8). In the old zooecia the large avicularium is lost among the 

 tubules and opens then into the peristomie (figs. 9, 10. 11). The more the tubules 



