1907.] 



Records of the Indian Muse 



um. 



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21. Nellia oculata. Busk. 



Brit. Mus. Cat. Mar. Pol., pt. i p 18 



^"^ WeT^S" ^''"™/ ^i?f°\59' 77, 90, Indian Marine 

 ^iirve> , Andamans (Wood-Mason). 



Family Tubuckllariid^. 

 22. Tubiicellaria ccreoides, Ellis and Sol. 



MacGillivray, Trans. Roy. Soc. Vict., vol. xxi, p. 107 1884 

 Local^t^es.-0& Table Island, Andamans (Indian Marine Survey) • 

 Maso^^""'^ ''^''"^^° fathoms; west coast Andamans (Wood- 

 Family Membraniporid^ 

 23. Membranipora tenuirostris, Hincks. 



Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., series 5, vol. vi p 70 1880 

 L...^^y.--Lat. 6° i' N. Long. 81° 16' E.; 34 fathoms (Indian 

 .Marnie Survey) ; Andamans (Wood-Mason). 



24. Membranipora tuberculata, Busk. 

 Quart. Journ. Micro. Sci., old series, vol. vi, p. 126, 1858 



There is a point that makes me hesi- 

 tate in considering this species to be 

 M. tuberculata. The blunt tubercles 

 are hollowed in a cave-like manner on 

 the side nearest the basis of the zooe- 

 cia, and the membrane of the front 

 wall of the zooecium can be sometimes 

 seen extending below the aperture 

 over the margin, which has become 

 widened and attached to the tubercles 

 above the hollowed portions. These 

 tubercles with age become united to 

 form a transversely elongated tubercle 

 as described by Busk for M. tubercu- 

 lata. This species should probably be 

 called Amphiblestrum instead of Mem- 

 branipora. 



Locality. —Station 327, Indian Marine 

 Survey. 



F"in. 3.—Membr<7nipoia fuhercu- 

 lata, Busk 



