TUBULIPORID.E. 



TUBULIPORA FLABELLARIS, 

 Plate LXIV. figs. 1-8. 



TI T BIPORA FLABELLARIS, Fabricius, Faun. Greenland. (1780), 430. 

 TUBCLIPORA FLABKLLARIS, Smitt, CEfv. K. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 186G, 401 and 455, 



pi. ii. figs. 6-8 : Manzoni, Bryoz. foss. d. Miocene d' Austria 



ed Ungheria, pt. iii. 14, pi. xii. fig. 50, pi. xiii. fig. 53. 

 TUBULIPORA VERRUCARIA, M. -Edwards, Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, viii. 323, pl.xii. 



fig. 1 (Recherches, &c., Mem. s. lea Tubulipores, 3) : Heller 



(? part.), Bryoz. Ad. M. 48. 

 TUBULIPORA PIIALANGEA, Couch, Corn. Faun. iii. 106, pi. xix. fig. 7 : Johnston, 



B. Z. ed. 2, 273, pi. xlvi. figs. 1-4: Busk, Crag Pol. lll.pl. 



xviii. fig. 6 : Hincks, Dev. Cat., Ann. N. H. ser. 3, ii. 308 



(52 sep.) : Busk, B.M. Cat. iii. 25, pi. xiiii. &c. 

 PHALANQELLA PHALANGEA, Gray, B.M. Bad. 139 and 149. 

 DIASTOPORA PLUMULA, Reuss, Pol. Wien. Tertiarbeck. 51, pi. vii. figs. 11-13 



(fide Manzoni). 



Zoarium wholly adnate, of a pale purplish colour, suborbi- 

 cular or obscurely lobed , when young flabellate. Zooecia 

 long, slender, somewhat flexuous, suberect, crowded, 

 irregular, more or less connate, sometimes in simple 

 series radiating from the centre to the circumference, 

 sometimes (especially in the lobes) disposed in rows on 

 each side of a mesial line, and inclining outwards ; walls 

 thin, vitreous, and punctate. 



I QUITE agree with Prof. Smitt that this is the species 

 described by Fabricius as Tubipora flabellaris*; and 

 undesirable as it undoubtedly is to interfere with the 

 established nomenclature, it seems only right that the 

 original application of the specific name should be restored. 



* His words " Tubipora corallio . . . tubulis connatis radiato" and "unde 

 in peripheriam ducuntur radii tubulis eminontibus simplici ordihe connatia 

 format! " could only apply to the present species. Busk thinks that Fabri- 

 cius had both forms in yiew, probably because he applies the term "flabtl- 

 Hformis n io the zoarium. But such it commonly is in this species; it is only 

 in it* most perfect condition that it quite loses the fan-shaped figure. 



