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184 SALICORNARIIDA. 
FAMILY—SALICORNARIID#:. 
Zoarium divided into internodes by flexible joints; internodes 
formed by cells disposed around an imaginary axis, forming cylindrical 
branches of a dichotomously divided erect zoarium. 
Genus, SALICORNARIA—Cuvier. 
Front of cell depressed, surrounded by an elevated ridge, by which 
the surface is divided into more or less regular rhomboidal or hexagonal 
spaces ; no aperture ; avicularia disposed irregularly. 
S. farciminoides, /ohuston, Hist. Brit. Zooph., p. 355. Front of 
cell rhomboidal, or hexagonal with a straight side at top and bottom, 
sometimes arched above; cells in the same series contiguous ; surface 
granular ; avicularium distinct from and above acell, rostrum immersed, 
mandible semicircular. 
Europe. South Africa. Australia. 
S. malvinensis, Bush, /.c., . 18. Front of cell arched above, 
very acute below ; cells distant in the same series ; surface smooth ; 
avicularium replacing a cell, rostrum immersed, mandible wide, large, 
triangular, pomted. 
South America. Falkland Islands. 
Genus, ONCHOPORA—Busk. 
Cells, ventricose, coalescent ; not boardered by a raised margin ; 
ovicells, inconspicuous. 
New Zealand only. 
O. hirsuta, Lamx., Hist. des Polyp. cor, p. 126, Pl. it, f. 4. 
Front of cell rhomboidal, margin raised, surface granular ; cells in the 
same series distant ; a long corneous tube at the base of each cell. 
Lyall Bay. 
FAMILY—SCRUPARIAD:. 
Zoarium continuous throughout ; cells uni-serial. 
Genus, 4 TEA—Lamouroux. 
Cells tubular, erect, scattered, rising from a creeping fistular fibre 
adnate to a foreign base ; aperture terminal, or sub-terminal. 
EE. dilatata, Busk. Ann. Nat. Hist., 1851, p. 85, pl. ix., f. 14. 
Cells cyathiform at the apex, curved, ringed, aperture largely dilated, 
sub-orbicular. (Busk.) 
Torres Strait (2) (Quekett.) Foveaux Straits. (G. Joachim.) 
