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mens which I obtained on the beach at Bangor, co. Down in 1833, 

 and subsequently dredged in the loughs of Strangford and Belfast, 

 are regarded by me as identical in species with the large greyish- 

 white and rugose forms procured on the open coast of Down at 

 Ballywalter. Examples precisely similar to the latter, are on Algae 

 in my collection from Van Diemen's Land." W. Thompson. 



8. T. SERPENS, depressed, dicTiotomously divided, the segments 

 free and truncate , polype-tubes in transverse rows, divided by 

 a longitudinal mesial line. Ellis. 



PLATE XLVII. FIG. 4, 5, 6. 



Small purple Eschara, Ellis CoralL 74. No. 6, pi. 27, e, E. copied in Ann. des. Sc. 

 Nat. n. s. viii. pi. 12, fig. 2. Tubipora serpens, Lin. Syst. edit. x. 790. Lin. 

 Syst. 1271. Turt. Gmel. iv. 614. Jameson in Wern. Mem. i. 561. Stew. 

 Elem. ii. 426. Bosc Vers. ii, 351. Millepora liliacea, Pall. Blench. 248. Turt. 

 Gmel. iv. 639. Turt. Brit. Faun. 205. Bosc Vers. ii, 345. Millepora tubu- 

 losa, Ellis and Soland. Zooph. 136. Turt. Gmel. iv. 639. Turt. Brit. Faun. 

 205. Stew. Elem. ii. 428. .Bosc Vers. ii. 345. Hogg's Stock. 37. Cellepora 

 ramulosa, Esper Pflanz. Cellep. tab. 5. Tubulipora transversa, Lam. Anim. 

 s. Vert. ii. 162: 2de edit. ii. 242. Risso 1'Europ. Mend. v. 338. Lamour. 

 Expos. Method. 1. pi. 64, fig. 1. (copied from Ellis.) Stark Elem. ii. 437. 

 Johnston in Trans. Newc. Soc. ii. 269. Blainv. Actinol. 424. Obelia tubulifera, 

 Lamour. Expos. Method. 81, tab. 80, fig. 7, 8. copied in Blainv. Actinolog. 424, 

 pi. 71, fig. 1 ; and in Ann. des Sc. Nat. n. s. viii. pi. 12, fig. 3. Lam. Anim. s. 

 Vert. 2de edit. ii. 246. Tubulipora foraminulata, Blainv. Actinol. 425, pi. 62, fig. 

 3, 3a. (not of Lamarck.) Tubulipora organisans, D'OrUgny. Tubulipora serpens, 

 Flem. Brit. Anim. 529. Couch Zooph. Cornw. 45: Corn. Faun. iii. 105, pi. 19, 

 ftg. 6. Idmonea transversa, M. Edwards in Ann. des Sc. Nat. n. s. ijc. 218, pi, 9, 

 fig. 3. Pherusa tubulosa, Templcton in Mag. Nat. His. ix. 469, on the authority 

 of W. Thompson in Ann. Nat. Hist. v. 252. 



Hob. Common on all parts of the coast, adherent to flexible 

 zoophytes, the Sertularinae of deep water especially ; to old shells, 

 and oftenest within old bivalves ; and to algae. " Ex mari Cornu- 

 biam alluente allatae Sertulariae eandem crebram, in piso majores 

 glomeres convolutam aut laciniosos passim et revolutos flosculos 

 mentientem exhibuerunt," Pallas. 



Polypidom adherent by a narrow base, calcareous, of a faint pur- 

 ple colour or white, depressed, irregularly divided, the segments flat, 

 bifid, spreading, more or less revolute, obtuse, the under surface even 

 and striate, the upper rough with the tubulous cells arranged pret- 

 tily in transverse rows, but divided by a central groove, which winds 

 along the branches : the cells are generally placed in close apposi- 

 tion, sometimes they are disjunct, and the walls are minutely frosted. 



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