FROXDIPORID.li:. 37 



Family VI. rEONDIPORID^. 



Zoarium massiTe, stipitate, simple or lobed, or ramose. Cells con- 

 nate, aggregated into fasciculi, and continuous throughout the 

 length of the fasciculus, at the extremity of which only they open ; 

 walls of ceUs porous ; no intermediate pores or cancelli. 



FascicuUnea (pars), D'Orbigny; Smitt, Overs. 1866, p. 487. 



Fascicreridfe (pars), D'Orbigny, I. c. p. 664. 



Frondiporidfe et Coryiuboporidas (pars), Smitt, I. c. pp. 407, 488. 



Ceriporidns (pars), Susk, Crag Poh/z. p. 118. 



Cerioporina (pars), Hagenoiv, Maast. Kreideh. p. 35. 



1. FASCICULIPOEA, D'Orb. 



Zoarium stipitate ; capitulum simple or lobate. 



Fasciculipora, D'Orbigny (1839), I. c. p. 667. 



Frondipora, Michelin, (pars) Hagenmc. 



Corymbopora, Michelin. 



Corymbosa, D'Orbigny. 



Fungella, Hagenoiv ; Busk, Crag Pol. p. 118. 



1. Fasciculipora digitata, n. sp. (Plate XXXIII. fig. 1.) 



Capitulum cupped ; fasciculi in the form of subcylindrical, digiti- 

 form processes rising from the border of the cup ; outer surface 

 smooth or obscurely striated. 



Hah. Cape Capricorn, Australia, 13 fathoms {H.M.8. ' RattU- 

 sywl-e '). 



2. Fasciculipora ramosa, D'Orb. (Plate XXXIII. fig. 2.) 



Zoarium fungiform : capitulum composed of numerous rounded 

 lobes (usually in pairs) ; each lobe constituted of a thick fasciculus 

 of tubular cells of large calibre, with a few smaller tubes scattered 

 amongst them ; outer surface smooth, dotted, showing the outlines 

 of the elongated cells. 



Fasciculipora ramosa, D'Orbigny, Voy. Amer. Mer. Polypiers.-o. 20, 



pi. ix. figs. 22-24. 

 P Frondipora ramosa, Hagenoiv. 



Corymbosa ramosa, D'Orb. Cours Elem. de Pal. t. ii. p. 109 (1851). 

 ? Fungella prolifera, Hagenoxc, Maast. Kreideb. p. 37, pi. iii. figs. 6 & 7 ? 



Hah. South Patagonia, 48 fathoms {Darwin, D'Orhigny). 



F. ramosa bears close resemblance to Fungella multijida, mihi, of 

 the Crag (?. c. p. 119, pi. 17. fig. 4) ; but in that species, which cor- 

 responds with Frondipora marsigli of M. MicheUn (Iconog. p. 68, 

 pi. 14. fig. 4), the whole growth appears more squat or de- 

 pressed, and the lobes shorter and not in pairs ; whilst the outer 

 surface towards the base is marked with hexagonal areolae, an 



