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ANGIAD.E. 
element angia, from £ 17709 , a cup, I have completed the 
word from oirKov, armour; with a double allusion to the 
mail-like epitheca, and the toothing of the plates. Tlie 
English name commemorates the manner of gemmation ; 
and the specific, the locality in which it was found ; the 
Durotriges having, according to Ptolemy, anciently in- 
habited the coast of Dorset. 
In September, 1858, a dealer from Torquay, dredging 
in Weymouth Bay, brought up a piece of the bottom, 
about a foot square, evidently the edge of one of the 
oolite ledges, torn off by the lip of the dredge. On tliis 
were from fifty to a hundred specimens of this little Coral, 
clustered in many groups. It was presumed to be Cargo - 
phyllia SmitJni, and no special notice being taken of it, 
the mass was broken up and dispersed ; and a small frag- 
ment accidentally fell under my eye, and tvas secured. I 
was not so fortunate as to see the animal alive, my 
s})ecimen, though in the flesh, being in an advanced state 
of decomposition ; but the discoverer, tvho is pretty familiar 
with C. Smitkii, at least as to its general appearance, spoke 
of the Hoplangia as resembling that species, and told me 
that he remarked green and white hues. lie observed 
also numerous tentacles, but did not notice whether they 
were knobbed. 
[Angia.] 
Hoplangia. 
[Phyllangia.] 
