232 NATURAL HISTORY OF 



mouth termmal. Ooecia and Avicularia wanting. — 

 T. H. 



B. MiRABiLis, Johnston. Plate ZVIII. fig. 5. 



Hab. : Scai^borough {Bean), Salcombe, Torbay, Lam- 

 lash, Isle of Man, Channel Islands [T. H.), Hastings 

 {Miss Jelly), Peterhead {C. W.P.), Ilfracombe {.P. E.G.). 



Zooecia "boat- shaped/^ 7 — 10 spines on each side 

 of the aperture, cells connected by a slender tube. 



This is a small and beautiful species. The origin 

 of its generic name is as follows. Dr. Johnston says : 

 '^This remarkable genus was discovered by Mr. William 

 Bean, of Scarborough. I felt much gratified in asso- 

 ciating it with his name. He is well known to natu- 

 ralists generally by his multitudinous discoveries in 

 British zoology, recent and fossil.^^ 



Dr. Landsborough, quoting from Mrs. Gatty, de- 

 scribes the cells as resembling beetles that have lost 

 their heads. The polypide has 20 tentacles. 



FAMILY V. NOTAMID^. 



Zooecia in pairs, each iiair arising by tubular pro- 

 longations from the pair next but one below it ; at each 

 bifurcation a new series of cells intercalated into the 

 branches. — T. H. 



Genus I. Notamia, Fleming. 



Zoariwni consisting of a creeping tubular stem and 

 erect shoots. Zooecia united laterally in pairs ; above 

 each pair two stemmed avicularia, originating, one on 

 each side, from the inferior tubular prolongation of 

 one of the cells immediately above. Ocecia none. — 

 T.H. 



