POLYZOA INFUNDIBULATA. 



I.— TUBULIPORINA. 



Les TuBULiPORiENS, Mihic-Edwards Mem. sur les Crisies, p. 14. — Tubuliporid^, 

 Johidon in Trans. Berw. Nat. CI. 107. — Auloporina, Ehraibeiy Corall. des 

 roth. meer. 153. 



Fig. 61. 



FAMILY— TUBULIPORID^. 

 TuBipoRAD^, Flem, Brit. Anim. 528. — Tubuliporid^, Johnston Brit. Zooph. 247. 

 — Les TuBULipoREs, Milne-Edwards in Ann. des Sc. Nat. viii. 321. — Tubuli- 

 PORiDA, J. E. Gray, in Syn, Brit. Mus. 135. 



Character. — Polypidoms calcareous^ massive, orhlculated 

 or lohed or divided dichotomously ; the cells long and tubular, 

 with a round prominent unconstricted aperture. 



The animal of the Tubuliporidje was first described by Milne- 

 Edwards. It is an ascidian polype of the simplest kind, and the 

 tenant of a calcareous elongated and tubular cell which has a round 

 aperture unprotected by any valvular apparatus or operculum. At 



