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outer vesicular area (at about the above diameter) one and a half line wide, composed of about 
four very oblique rows of small rounded cells, extending upwards and outwards, from the 
broad deflected edges of the diaphragms, which latter are thick, tolerably regular, nearly 
horizontal in the middle, about three interdiaphragmatal spaces in two lines. 
“Not uncommon in the carboniferous limestone of Kendal.’ (J/‘Coy, op. cit.) 
This Coral appears to be specifically identical with the fossil which the same author had 
previously found at Kendal, and had referred to Cyathophyllum flecuosum of Goldfuss, 
under the name of Caninia fleuosa ;' for in speaking of C. subibicina he says: ‘1 suspect 
that this may be the Coral quoted occasionally by authors under the name of the Devonian 
Cyathophyllum flecuosum.” We are also inclined to think that these fossils belong to a 
species which is found at Tournay, and was described by ourselves under the name of 
Zaphrentis tortuosa.” The description given by Professor M‘Coy agrees in most respects 
with the characteristics of this fossil; but, as no figure of Z swbibicina has yet been 
published, and as some of the peculiarities pomted out by that author (the thickness of the 
septa, and the great size of the fossula, for example,) do not coincide with what we have 
observed in Z. fortuosa, we have considered it advisable, provisionally at least, to retain 
here the new specific name given to the British specimens. 
Genus AMPLEXUS, (p. lxvi.) 
1, AmpLexus coraLLoipes. ‘Tab. XXXVI, figs. 1, 1a, 14, 1¢, ld, le. 
AMPLEXUS CORALLOIDES, Sowerby, Min. Conchol., vol. i, p. 165, pl. Ixxii, 1814. 
— — Bronn, Syst. der Urw. Konchylien, p. 49, tab. i, fig. 13, 1824. 
— Sowersyl, Phillips, Geol. of York., vol. ii, p. 203, pl. ii, fig. 24, 1836. 
—  coratLorpEs, De Koninck, An. Foss. des Terr. Carb. de Belg., p. 27, pl. 8, 
fig. 6, 1842. 
—  Sowrrsyr, M‘Coy, Syn. Carb. Foss. of Ireland, p. 185, 1844. 
— coraLLorpEs, Michelin, Icon., p. 256, pl. lix, fig. 6, 1846. 
— a Milne Edwards and Jules Haime, Pol. Foss. des Terr. Palzeoz., 
p. 342, 1851. 
— — M‘Coy, Brit. Paleeoz. Foss., p. 92, 1851. 
No complete specimens of this species have, to our knowledge, been met with ; only 
fragments, varying in length from 3 lines, to 4 or 5 inches, have been found; but by their 
general form it is evident, that this corallum is very long, cylindrical, and uregularly bent; 
it presents, as usual, some circular accretion swellings ; its epitheca is in many places worn 
away, so as to leave uncovered the outer edge of the septa, which form equidistant vertical 
lines. We have seen no specimens in which the calice was preserved. The septa are 
' Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., 2d series, vol. iii, p. 133. 
? Milne Edwards and Jules Haime, Pol. Foss. des Terr. Palsoz., p. 335. 
