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frontal and characterized by the same calcareous lamellae. With our present 

 poor state of knowledge of the larva we can not be absolutely certain that this 

 single anatomical peculiarity is sufficient to characterize a family. We think, 

 therefore, that it is preferable to group in a distinct section these species with 

 concave frontal under the same name but placed under the authority of Waters. 



The Cretaceous forms figured by D'Orbigny and Hagenow have already been 

 separated under tha name of Hagenowinella Canu, 1900. 



Jullien, who has studied and figured Memhranipora galeata Busk, 1852, has 

 not classified it in his genus. 



Genus CHAPERIA (Waters, 1898) Levinsen, 1909 (second group). 



1909. Chaperia Levinsen, Morphological and Systematic Studies on the Cheilostomatoua Bryozoa 

 p. 115. 



The original description of this genus by Levinsen follows: 



The distal part of the zooecium is furnished internally with two lateral spaces open towards the 

 frontal surface (sometimes coalesced to a single horseshoe shaped one), formed by two plates which 

 project from the side walls and converge towards the distal wall. Each distal wall has two multiporous 



Fig. 4.— Genus Chaperia (Waters, 189S) Levinsen, 1909. 



Figs. A-D. Chaperia bilamellata Waters, 1898. A. Specimen, X25, from Port Elizabeth, South 

 Africa, showing the principal variations of the avicularia, etc. B. Operculum of the orifice of the 

 ovicell, X85. C. Operculum of the aperture, X85. D. Mandible of the avicularium, XS5. (Figs. .V- 

 D, after Waters, 1898.) 



Fig. E. Chaperia cervicornis Busk, 1852. Zooecia showing the operculum of the aperture and that 

 of the ovicell in position (after Hincks, 1881). 



rosette plates [septular plates] and the distal half of each side wall a single one. Hyperstomial free 

 ooecia with a completely calcified ectooecium [and a special operculum]. The zooecia, which may 

 sometimes have a membraneous opercular valve, sometimes a cliitinous compound operculum, are 

 generally strongly provided with spines and have often a well-developed [concave] cryptocyst. .V\-icu- 

 laria sometimes trumpet shaped, not always present. The colonies are generally incmsting. 



Type. — Chaperia hilamellala Waters, 1898. • 



To this genus belong the following species; 

 Chaperia (Amphiblestrum) cristata Busk, 1884. 



