ON ZAPHREN TOLD CORALS FROM BRITISH DEVONIAN BEDS. A97 
36. On some Zarurentorp Corats from Bririsa DErvontan Bens. 
By A. Cuamprrnowne, Esy., M.A., F.G.S. (Read June 11, 1884.) 
[Puatres XXJ.-XXITT.] 
Tue authors of the monograph of ** The Devonian Fossil Corals,” in 
the Palzontographical Society’s volume for 1853, described and 
figured two species only of Devonian corals included in their 
subfamily Zaphrentine, namely Hallia Pengellit of those authors, 
and Amplewus tortwosus, Phillips. Since the publication of that 
work fresh material has been accumulating, and this will eventually 
necessitate a complete revision of the Devonian corals, involving, it 
may be, the admission of some new genera and the fusion of others. 
To this end the way has been already paved to some extent by 
several paleontologists. For example, the genus Battersbyia, K. and 
H., has (metaphorically) had its corallites extricated from the so- 
called ‘‘ccenenchyma,” and been classed by Dr. Duncan as a precursor 
of the aporose corals of the Mesozoic and later ages, under the family 
Paleastreide ; whilst the ‘ coenenchyma’”’ itself is manifestly, in 
various Battersbyic, Stromatopora of different kinds. Hence the 
name, though retained, has come to bear a very different meaning 
from that attached to it by its authors*. 
In treating therefore of a particular branch of the subject, I have 
confined myself to noticing, and having figured, the best specimens 
which are at present available to me; but it must not be supposed 
that even this branch is brought up to date, as, with two exceptions 
only, the fossils I shall attempt to describe are all in my own col- 
lection, and I have scarcely ventured to go further than that. 
With such very disconnected material at hand one can scarcely 
do more than show, as I shall hope to do, that in common with 
the American Devonians (in which many species of Zaphrentis are 
known and have been described by Rominger and others), these 
corals are somewhat better represented in European (British) 
Devonians than has hitherto been supposed. This paucity of 
Kuropean species is referred to by Dr. Ferdinand Romer +. 
In the following I avoid as much as possible burdening scientific 
nomenclature: in two or three instances only, and with considerable 
diffidence, specific names are suggested; but on the whole I would 
prefer that the figures should speak for themselves. 
ZAPHRENTIS CALCEOLOIDES, sp. nov.? (Plate XXII. figs. la, 10.) 
Somewhat calceoloid in shape, short in proportion to the width. 
Length 2 inches. Not distinctly curved, but the side corresponding 
* Besides this, the works of Dr. Nicholson, Prof. Moseley, and others have 
helped to clear the ground in different ways. 
T ‘Lethza geognostica,’ Textband, 2nd part, p. 362. 
