G. E. VINE ON THE FAMILY DIASTOPOEID^. 357 



are connected with the reproduction of Diastopora, and are homolo- 

 gous with ovicells"*. 



These are all the recent and fossil DiastoporcB given by Busk in 

 the '- Cyclostomata ' and in the ' Crag Polyzoa.' Mr. Waters, in his 

 papers on the Naples " Bryozoa" t and in his paper on the " Bryo- 

 zoa from the Pliocene of Sicily *' j, revives one of the synonyms of 

 Busk's D. ohelia, the JD. lato-marginata of D'Orh., and adopts D.fla- 

 hellum^ Reuss, in the place of D. simj^lex, Busk, on the ground that 

 D'Orbigny had already appropriated the term for a fossil species §. 



In this review of the family I wish to direct the attention of the 

 jpalceontologist more particularly to the Palaeozoic forms ; hut it may 

 he advantageous as a more accurate study if I give a stratigraphical 

 list of the fossil Diastoporidse, gleaned from works that are acces- 

 sible to me ; for the remarks made upon the species from Recent to 

 the Chalk, and from the Carboniferous to the tipper Silurian, are the 

 results of orio-inal investigation. 



Recent. Species ah-eady given. 



Post-Tertiary. Diastopora ohelia, Fleai. Garvel Park, Scotland. 



Pliocene. simplex, Busk's ' Crag Polyzoa,' 



meandrina, Wood, Mor. Cat. 



jlahellum, Eeuss, Waters's ' Bryozoa of Naples. 



Miocene. , Eeiiss, Manzoni's ' Bryozoi d'Aust.' 



Upper Chalk. grandis, D'Orb., " B. ramosa very doubtful." 



Sowerhii, Lonsd., Mor. Cat. 



• Wetherelli, Morris, Mor. Cat. 



• glomerata and congesta, D'Orb., Busk's Cat. 



Gtreensand. clacula, D'Orb., Mor. Cat, 



tuhcrosa, D'Orb., Mor. Cat. 



papyracea, D Orb., Mor. Cat. 



Oolite. Berenicea foliacea, Lamx., Mor. Cat. 



verrucosa, Milne-Edw., Mor. Cat. 



■ diluviana, Milne-Edw., Mor. Cat. 



■ Eudesiana, Milne-Edw., Mor. Cat.|| 



Lias. striata, J. Haime. Lias of Valica ^. 



? antipodmm, Tate, African form ^'"''. 



Carboniferous. megastornMS, M'Coy, ' Irish Fossils.' 



* Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., January 1864. 



t Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., April 1879, p. 272. 



X Manchester Geol. Soc. Trans., May 1878. 



§ The Rev. T. Hincks, in his new work on British Polyzoa, does not admit 

 the rendering of Mr. Waters, but gives a new name, B. suborhicidaris, to D. 

 simplex (Brit. Polyzoa, vol. i. pp. 4{)4 to 466). 



II Elea Q\\dL. Bidiastopora,T)'Orh.,YQq}\ivQ reworking; and I shall be glad if 

 paleontologists will help me in this matter. 



^ If Berenicea striata, J, Haime, of the Lias of Valica, may be taken as the 

 type of our foreign Secondary rocks, it may be taken also as the type of our own 

 Oolitic species. I have not seen Haime's figure ; but Manzoni, in his ' Bi-iozoi. del 

 Pliocene antico di Castrocaro,' gives good figures of Diastopora {Berenicea) 

 striata, J. Haime (p. 44, tav. vi. fig. 74, and tav. vii. fig. 79), which very closely 

 resemble our species from the Inferior and Great Oolite of Cleeve and 

 Ividlington. 



** Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. 1867, p. 162. "The only Polyzoon hitherto 

 known iu the Secondary rocks of South Africa." 



