Zoology.} NATUEAL HISTOKY OF' VICTORIA. \_Po!i/zoa, 



Plate 157, Fia. 1. ' 

 FASCICULIPORA GRACILIS (McG.). 



[Genus FASCICULIPORA (D'Orbignt). (Sub-kingdom Mollusca. Class Polyzoa. 

 Order Infundibulata. Sub-order Cyclostomata. Family Frondiporidae.) 



Gen. Char. — Zoarium erect, simple or branched or lobate. Zooecia opening only at the 

 extremities of the branches or also (in F. bellis) in one or more regular series below the ex- 

 tremity.] 



Description. — Zoarium small. Zooecia in somewhat flattened bundles, very 

 .long, slender, usually distinct and free at the extremity, surface thickly punctate, 

 except the part immediately below the mouth, which is smooth or transversely 

 wrinkled. 



Reference.— P. H. MacGillivray, Tr. Roy. Soc. Vict., Dec. 1882. 



Port Phillip Heads. 



A small species, consisting of simple or divided bundles of long, 

 slender zooecia of a glassy appearance. The extremities usually 

 project and are free, and the mouth is circular. The zooecia at 

 the surface of the bundles are separated by distinct grooves, and 

 are thickly marked, except immediately below the mouth, with 

 small, raised, white puncta. The ooecia in this, as in the other 

 species of the genus, are unknown. 



Explanation of Fiqukes. 

 Plate 157. — Fig. 1, specimen, natural size. Fig. la, the same, magnified. 



Plate 157, Fig. 2. 

 FASCICULIPORA BELLIS (McG.).. 



Description. — Zooecia in small, erect bundles, mostly opening at the summit 

 by prismatic orifices; one or two series opening lower down, the upper of these 

 frequently separated, and their orifices reaching to the same level as those of the 

 chief mass of the bundles ; surface minutely punctate. 



Reference.— P, H. MacGillivray, Tr. Roy. Soc. Vict., Dec. 1883. 



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