NO. 5 OSBURN : BRYOZOA 25 



Beania intermedia (Hincks), 1881 



Osburn 1914: 189 and 1940:398. Marcus 1937:61. 



This is a uniserial species, without spines, distributed widely in 

 warmer waters. Osburn recorded it from the Tortugas Islands, Florida, 

 and from several localities about Porto Rico. Marcus lists it from Santos 

 Bay, Brazil. 



Distribution. — Station A30-39, Cubagua Island, shore. 



Family Farcininariidae Busk 1852 

 Genus NELLIA Busk 1852 

 Nellia oculata Busk, 1852 



Smitt 1873: 3. Levinsen 1909: 120 (Nellia tenella). Osburn 1914: 191 ; 

 1927: 125; 1940:400. Canu and Bassler 1928:26. 



Harmer (1926:242) calls attention to a peculiarity of distribution 

 in this species in two areas, ( 1 ) the Indian Ocean, Australia and the 

 East Indies, (2) the western Atlantic from Florida to Brazil. It is a 

 very common and well distributed species in the Gulf of Mexico and the 

 West Indies. 



Smitt recorded it from Florida ; Levinsen from Texas and the island 

 of St. Thomas; Osburn from the Tortugas Islands, Florida, Curagao, 

 and Porto Rico, and Canu and Bassler from the Gulf of Mexico and the 

 Pleistocene of Bocas Island, Panama. 



Distribution.~^t?it\ons A14-39, A42-39, At500, At503, At527, 

 At529, and At530. These stations show the locations at Cape la Vela, 

 Colombia; Caledonia Bay, Panama; Tortuga Island and Gulf of Vene- 

 zuela at 10 to 39 fms. 



Family Epistomiidae Gregory 1903 

 Genus SYNNOTUM Pieper 1881 

 Synnotum aegyptiacum (Audouin), 1826 



Osburn 1914:191 (S. aviculare); 1927: 126; 1940:402. 



A very widely distributed warm water species. On the Atlantic coast 

 the writer has specimens from Beaufort, North Carolina and from the 

 Bermuda Islands. Marcus (1937: 58) records it for Santos Bay, Brazil. 



Distribution. — Station A14-39, 2 miles SW of Cape la Vela, Colom- 

 bia at 21 to 22 fms. 



