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? Tervia irregularis Waters, 1914, "Mar. Fauna Brit. E. Afr.", "Bry. Cycl.", Proc. Zool. Soa, 

 p. $43, PI. IV, fig. S. 



285. A.) Stat. 51. Madura Bay, S. point of Molo Strait, 69 — 91 Metres; fine grey sand, coarse 

 560. A. ) sand with shells and stones. 



Also, in the Collection of the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge : — 



Torres Straits, 191. A., A. C. Haddon Coll., Reg. Feb. 24, 1898. 



Queensland, Holborn Island, Miss E. C. JELLY, Reg. May 24, 1S95 (now transferred to the 

 British Museum). 



The following specimens, in the Stomafopora-condition, may be noticed in this place. 



One or more of them may be the encrusting bases of the present species, but it is probable 



that several species are represented, belonging to Entalophora and Tuèuiipora as well as 



to Tervia : — 



17. T. Stat. 49 a . Sapeh Strait, 69 Metres; coral and shells (on Smittia slide, 17. K.). 

 62. N. Stat. 99. Anchorage off N. Ubian, 16 — -23 Metres; Lithothamnion-bottom. 

 249. H. Stat. 310. 8° 30' S., H9°7'.5E., Ji Metres; sand with a few pieces of dead coral. 

 (Cambridge Coll.) Torres Straits, 193, A. C. HADDON Coll., Reg. Feb. 24, 1898. 



Zoarium commencing with a " Stomatopora" -Yike. base, giving off erect sterns which are 

 oval or nearly circular in transverse section. The basal surface of the erect branches is at first 

 flat, but later becomes covered by a layer of longitudinally disposed kenozooecia which make 

 this surface convex. Zooecia not arranged regularly in two alternating series, those of opposite 

 sides beine often continuous across the middle line of the frontal surface of the branch. At the 

 outer ends of the rows, the zooecia are partly or entirely connate and here resemble the series 

 of a typical Tubulipora. Ovicell developed on the basal surface of the branch, extending into 

 a bifurcation, in the angle of which is situated a short ooeciostome which may be visible in 

 frontal view. 



I name this species in honour of Miss E. C. Jelly, from whorri I obtained the ovicell- 

 bearing specimen here figured, and whose excellent "Synonymie Catalogue of the Recent Marine 

 Bryozoa" (1889) has been so invaluable an aid to students of recent Polyzoa. It appears to have 

 been referred to by Haswell and Waters, under the name of Idmonea or Tervia irregularis, 

 but I think I am justified in separating it from the Mediterranean and Atlantic forms to which 

 Meneghini's specific name properly belongs. The ovicell of T. jeliyae has much resemblance to 

 that of an Italian fossil ascribed by Neviani, 1891 x ), to Filisparsa variaus Reuss; but I do not 

 think there is sufficiënt reason for placing the specimens here described under Reuss' species. 



The present species is represented only by small fragments. The specimen 285. A. consists 

 of the base, which is adnate to a small Gasteropod shell inhabited by a Hermit-crab ; and of 

 two erect sterns of short length. The base by itself might well have been referred to Repto- 

 tnbigera or Stomatopora -), consisting, as it does, of completely adnate lobes growing over the 

 shell. These lobes are very irregular in their arrangement, and to some extent confluent with 



1) 1. cit. 



2) Cf. Waters, A. W., t. cit., p. 844. 



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