BBACHIOPODA 



By Edgar A. Smith, I.S.O. 



Only a few specimens of two species of Brachiopoda were obtained l)y the ' Discovery,' 

 both apparently representing new forms belonging to the genus Magellania. One is 

 very distinct from all the known species, on account of its remarkable sculpture, but the 

 other is very closely allied to M. kerguelenensis of Davidson, and to the Patagonian 

 M. venom of Solander ; indeed, it is with some hesitation that I have ventured 

 to separate it specifically. 



Magellania fragilis. (Figs. 1, 2.) 



Shell very similar in general aspect to M. veiiosa, from Patagonia,* and M. 

 kerguelenensis^, but thinner than either, and with coarser test perforations. M. venosa 



* See Davidson, Trans. Linn. Soc, 2nd Ser., Vol, IV., Zoology (1881), p. 49. 

 t Davidson t.c, p. 53. 



