BRACniOPODA. 



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nished witli two short laniclla\ Distr Unit ion, 3 sj)ecies. Erai'-il, 

 13 fathoms. Xow Zealaiid, South Australia. 



Morrisia (anomioides, Scacchi), Dayidson. Fig. loo. Shell 

 minute, conspicuously punctate; foramen large, encroaching 

 equally on both yalyes ; hinge area small, straight ; looj) not 

 reflected, attached to a small forked process in the centre of the 

 yalve. Animal T\'ith sigmoid arms, destitute of spiral termina- 

 tions ; cirri in paii-s. Distribution, 3 si^ecies. Mediterranean. 

 95 fathoms. (Forbes.) Fossil, 4 species. Chalk — . Europe. 



Fig. 156. Dorsal valve with animal.^ 



Fig. 157. Dorsal valve. 



Kraussia (rubra), Dav. Cape. Fig. 157. K. Lamarckiana, 

 Day. Australia. Fig. 156. 67ie/Z transyersely oblong; hinge- 

 line nearly straight ; beak truncated, laterally keeled ; area 

 flat; foramen large, doltidium rudimentary; dorsal yalye 

 longitudinally imj)ressed, fuiuished inside with a forked pro- 

 cess rising nearly centrally from the septum ; interior often 

 strongly tuberculated. The apophysis is sometimes a little 

 branched, indicating a tendency towards the form it attains in 

 Fig. 158. Animal with rather small oral arms, the spiral lobe 

 yery diminutiye. Distrihution, 6 species. South Africa, Sydney, 

 New Zealand ; low water to 120 fathoms. 



Fig. 158. 



?Megerlia (truncata), King, IftoO. Fl. XY., Fig. 9. Fig. 

 158. Looj:) trebly attached ; to the hinge-plate by its crura, and 

 to the septum by processes from the diyerging and reflected 

 portions of the loop. Distribution, 3 sj^ccies. Mediterranean, 

 rhilippines. These species belong to the same natural group 

 with Kraicssia. Fossil, 1 species. Chalk — . 



