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figured above, and the corallites are more bunched together ; 

 several mural pores are also visible within the weathered mouths 

 of the latter. The characters of this specimen seem to confirm 

 the reference of the fossil to Romingeria. 



Loc. an'l Horizon. — Reid's Gap, near Townsville (G. Sweety 

 Colin. SAveet, Melbovxrne). Middle Devonian. 



Section — RuoosA. 



G. oup-CYATHOPHYLLOIDEA. 



Family— CYATHOPHYLLID^. 



Genus — C y a t h o p H Y l l u m, Gold/uss, 1826. 



(Petrefacta Germania^, i., 1 Theil, p. .54.) 



Cyathophyllum Sweeti, sp.nov. 



(PI. XL., figs. 3 and 4; PL xll, fig. 1.) 



Cyalhophyllnm, sp.ind., Eth. fil., Geol. and Pal. Q'land and N. 

 Guinea, 1892, p. 59, t. 3, f. 11 and 12. 



Sp. Char. — Corallum turbinate, or slightly cornute, stout, about 

 two inches long ; section oval ; wall thick ; septa from fifty-eight 

 to sixty ; primary septa extending to the centre, where they 

 intermingle, a few from the sides confluent round the fossula, 

 straight or direct in the outer dissepimental area, curved in the 

 tabulate area ; slightly thickened with stereoplasma, but the 

 primordial septa not visible. Counter septum exceedingly long, 

 ventral, extending quite to the centre of the calice. Secondary 

 septa extending a little beyond the dissepimental zone. Fossula 

 not particularly specialised, unless by a ' lateral tabulate depi'es- 

 sion, containing five primary septa, including the counter septum. 

 Dissepiments plentiful, forming a peripheral zone of about half 



* In tlie " (ieology and Palfeontology of Queensland and N. Guinea,'' the 

 headhig "Family Cyathophyllidfe " was inadvertently left out before 

 " Genus Cyathophyllum," on p. 59. 

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