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of growth, and sometimes by numerous fine, concentric strize and ob- 
scure, longitudinal striations. Interior smooth.”—Hall and Simpson. 
Remarks.—This species has been observed in New Jersey only in the 
Dalmanites dentatus fauna, where fragmentary specimens are not un- 
common. The genus Vermipora was originally described by Hall* 
as a bryozoan, V. serpuloides being the type species, but in Volume VI. 
of the New York Paleontology it is apparently considered as a coral, 
more or less closely allied to Aulopora. Girty,+ however, has pointed 
out that the manner of budding in Vermipora is fundamentally dif- 
ferent from Aulopora, and he places the genus with the Bryozoa, in 
close proximity to Hederella. 
BRACHIOPODA. 
SCHIZOCRANIA SUPERINCRETA Barrett. 
Plate XLI., Fig. 4. 
1878. Trematis (Schizocrania) superincreta Barrett, Ann. N. Y. 
‘A Acad. Sci., vol. I., p. 122. 
Description.—Shell subcircular in outline, attached by the pedicle 
valve to some external object. Brachial valve depressed-convex, 
greatest convexity posterior to the middle; beak obtuse, marginal. 
Surface covered by fine, radiating lines, which, in the specimen ex- 
amined, reach only about half way to the beak, those near the pos- 
terior margin being curved. The radiating markings are crossed by 
fine, concentric lines of growth. 
The dimensions of the only specimen observed are: length, 17 
mm.; width, 17 mm.: convexity, 2 mm. 
Remarks.—A single specimen of this species, from the “trilobite 
bed” at Peter’s Valley, has been observed, it being attached to the 
brachial valve of a species of Stropheodonta. 'The species was or- 
iginally described from the same bed near the New York State line. 
In the original description the radiating lines are said to continue 
to the beak, which is not the case in the specimen studied, although 
this absence of markings toward the beak may be due to the eroded 
* Twenty-sixth Rep. N. Y. St. Mus. Nat. Hist., p. 109. 
7 Fourteenth Am. Rep. N. Y. St. Geol. for 1894, p. 307. 
