_ Natural History of Hast Finmark. . 107 
Genus Harmurta, gen. nov.* 
Zocecia ovate, thin, glassy, hyaline, with a scutiform or 
ovate space on the front, distinctly cireumscribed by a raised 
line, within which the surface is punctate. Oral aperture 
semielliptic; lip straight in the younger stage, but after- 
wards overhung by a suboral collar-like process with more 
or less developed rostrum. No visible occia. No avicularia. 
Type, Harmeria scutulata = Lepralia scutulata, Busk. 
The mode of development im this genus is very remark- 
able. The zocecia radiate from a centre, and the polyzoary is 
in the form of around patch. It is only at the centre that 
the zocecia attain their complete development and are fully 
exposed, so that their unpunctured bases are entirely visible ; 
with succeeding growth additional zocecia are continually 
interposed laterally, and each zocecium is smaller in size 
than the one which precedes it, and at the same time over- 
laps its successor, so that at the circumference of the zoarium 
they are seen to be heaped up one upon another. The 
suboral rostrum differs much in size and sometimes assumes 
great development. 
45. Harmeria scutulata (Busk). 
1855. Lepralia scutulata, Busk, “ Zoophytology,” Quart. Journ, Mic. 
Sci. vol. iil. p. 255, pl. ii. figs. 1, 2. 
1867. Discopora scutulata, Smitt, CGifvers, Kongl, Vet.-Akad. For- 
hand. p. 25, pl. xxvii. figs. 160, 161. 
1895. Cribrilina scutulata, Nordgaard, Bergens Museums Aarbog, 
1894-95, p. 20. 
1900. Cribrilina scutulata, Bidenkap, Fauna Arctica, vol. i. p. 512. 
On stones and shells of Buccinum between tide-marks at 
Vadso, and Nordgaard records it from the Laminarian zone 
at Nordkyn. I also have it in my collection from 0-1 
fathom, Smeerenberg Bay, Spitsbergen (Ff. A. Smitt), 
These last specimens are on Laminaria, and it would seem 
to be essentially a tide-mark or very shallow-water species. 
Busk’s West Greenland types were “on fucus”; Smitt 
speaks of the specimens he has seen as being “ in regione 
algarum haud frequentem,’ and as “ Laminariz affixam,” 
but Bidenkap gives 16-20 metres. 
*,* From this pot I do not propose to attempt any re- 
arrangement of the rest of the Cheilostomata, and shall only 
refer to existing genera. I had already written the greater 
* Dedicated to my friend, Dr. S. F. Harmer, who is doing such 
admirable work in the study of the Polyzoa. 
