A MONOGRAPH OF THE TERTIARY POLYZOA OF VICTORIA. 27 



Family Bicellariid.^. 



Zoarium phytoid, erect and continuous, or adnate. Zoa3cia continuous, loosely 

 united or disjunct and connected by corneous tubes, obconic or boat-shaped, wholly 

 or partly open in front. Avicularia, when jjreseut, pedunculate, capitate, altered in 

 form or aborted. 



Beania, Johnston 



(Including Diachoris, Busk). 



Zoarium creeping- or loosely aduate. Zoojcia disjunct, connected by (usually) 

 corneous tubes, erect or decumbent, ovate or boat-shaped, entirely ojien in front and 

 filled in by thin nieui])raue. Usually a capitate, pedunculate aA'icidarium on one or 

 both sides towards the upper extremity. 



1. B. spinigera, McG. 



Diachoris spinigera, McG., P.Z.V., 36. 



I have a single s])ecimen of a Diachoris from Schnapper Point, in a Ijroken 

 calcareous nodule, showing only the posterior surface. It is impossible to say to 

 which species it belongs, but it seems to be J3. spinigera. 



Family Celi,ariid.e. 



Zoarium erect, branched and cylindrical, or quadrate, with the Zooecia arranged 

 around an imaginary axis, or expanded lobed and bilaminate. Zocecia separated by 

 raised margins, with depressed entirely calcareou.s surface. Orecia internal and 

 opening by a special pore. 



Cellaria, Lamouroux.. 

 ( = Salicornaria, auct.) 

 Characters as for the family. 



1. C angastiloba, Bu.sk, PL III., fig. 16. 



Ilelicerita angustiloba. Busk, Q.J.G.S., xvi., 261; Tenison Woods, T.R.S.V., 

 1861, p. 5 ; Stoliczka, Foss. Bryoz., Orakei Bay, in Palieontology of Novarra Exp., 

 p. 155 ; Cellaria angustiloba, Waters, Q.J.G.S., Jan., 1882, p. 260. 



Zoarium consisting of compressed, ligulate, bilaminate branches. Zocecia 

 hexagonal, in regular transverse rows, se2)arated by sharply defined raised margins, 

 depressed towards the centre, surface finely granular ; thyrostome arched above, 

 lower edge with a broad plate projecting ujiwards and two short sharp denticles 



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