70 PROBOSCINA. 



I express no opinion as to the affinities of the type form of that 

 species. 



Among well-descrihed Cretaceous species, that which approaches 

 nearest to this is Proboscina subelegam, D'Orb. 1 ; but the zoarium 

 is more convex and the branches are not flabelliform. 



SPECIMEN. 



B. 4846. "With Berenicea diluviana, Lamx., on Terebratula intermedia, J. de 

 C. Sow. Cornbrash. Kushden. Figd. PI. II. Fig. 6. 



6. Proboscina morinica (Sauvage), 1889. 



SYNONYMY : 

 Stomatopora morinica, Sauvage, 1889, Bry. jur. Boul. : Butt. Soc. geol. France, 



ser. 3, t. xvii. p. 41, pi. iii. fig. 5 ; pi. iv. figs. 6, 7. 

 Proboscina ,, Gregory, 1895, Rev. pt. ii. : Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 



ser. 6, vol. xvi. p. 450. 

 Proboscina obscura, Vine, 1893, Polyz. Thrapston : Proc. Torks. Geol. Soc. 



vol. xii. p. 255, pi. xiii. fig. 7. 



DIAGNOSIS : 



Zoarium of an irregular, reticulate encrustation. Branches made 

 up of from one to five zocecia. 



Zocecia short, thick, with wide orifices. Shape in places almost 

 hippothoiform ; otherwise elliptical. 



Peristomes irregular, slightly raised. 



Formula. p, c, I, r = 2, 2, 1, 1-4. 



DISTRIBUTION. 



ENGLAND : 



Cornbrash : Thrapston. 



Inferior Oolite Pea Grit : Gloucestershire. 



FOREIGN : 



Oxfordian : near Boulogne. 



Description of Figure. PI. VII. Fig. 1. Inferior Oolite: 

 Cleeve. Part of zoarium, X 17dia. Holl Coll. D. 1840. 



1 D'Orbigny, op. cit. p. 853, pi. Dcclix. figs. 8-13. For characters of zooecia 

 see Pergens, op. cit. p. 332, pi. xi. fig. 3. 



