540 BULLETIN 100, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



The species of Smitt has been rediscovered frequently in the 

 European Tertiary. We found it in the Jacksonian and in the 

 Vicksburgian of the United States (North Carolina and Mississippi) 

 and we gave in 1920 the complete bibliography. 18 All these fossil 

 specimens differ from Diaperoecia radicata and from D. pulcherrima 

 in the wide branches bearing a larger number of tubes to the series; 

 the dorsal (our basal lamella) is identical. 



All of our specimens were dead; the ovicells are rather frequent. 

 The species is usually quite rare and it is abundant only at the 

 western extremity of Suriagao Strait. 

 Occurrence. — 



D. 5137. Jolo Light, Jolo; 6° 04' 25" N.; 120° 58' 30" E.; 



20 fathoms; S. Sh. 

 D. 5145. Jolo Light, Jolo, Sulu Archipelago; 6° 04' 30" N.; 



120° 59' 30" E.; 23 fathoms; co. S., Sh. 

 D. 5235. Nagubat Island, east coast of Mindanao; 9° 43' N.; 



125° 48' 15" E.; 44 fathoms; sft. M. 

 D. 5478. Tacbuc Point, Leyte; 10° 46' 24" N.; 125° 16' 30" 



E.; 57 fathoms; Sh. (common). 

 D. 5577. Mount Dromedario, north of Tawi Tawi; 5° 20' 36" 



N.; 119° 58' 51" E.; 240 fathoms; crs. S. 

 Indian Ocean: Mauritius (Kirkpatrick). 

 Plesiotypes. —Cat. No. 8370, 8371, U.S.N.M. 

 Cotypes—C&t. No. 8372, U.S.N.M. (var. minor). 

 Holotype. — Cat. No. 8373, U.S.N.M. (var . jasciculata) . 



Family TUBULIPORIDAE Johnston, 1838 



Genus TUBULIPORA Lamarck, 1816 



In 1920 we considered the grouping of the tubes in fascicles as a 

 generic feature and used the prefix Desme to indicate this character. 

 We were much influenced by the old classification and by the ideas 

 of Waters. We are now less positive because in comparing the fas- 

 ciculated species with the nonfasciculated species we find the ovicells 

 are perfectly identical. 



However, if the grouping in fascicles is an important and generic 

 character it will be perhaps useful to separate the nonfasciculated 

 Tubuliporas and to resurrect the old genus Criserpia which Milne 

 Edwards in 1838 had created for them. 



TUBULIPORA COERULEA, new species 



Plate 83, figs. 5-7 



Description. — The zoarium, of a more or less deep blue color, creeps 

 over shells, algae, corals, bryozoa and fragments of echinoids. It 

 is formed of wide branches, long and sinuous or short, flabellated 



« Bull. 106, U. S. National Museum p. 773, pi. 136, flgs. 1-12). 



