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sides or only on the one side, and a third frequently projects at the same time 

 from the middle of the ooecium. The processes mentioned arise in this way, that 

 some of the above-mentioned rib-like prominences are ring-shaped and continue 

 to increase in height. The ooecium in a larger or smaller part of its circum- 

 ference is connected with the zocecium by means of rib-like prominences. 



As I have been unable to find any more than a single independent calcareous 

 layer, I conclude that there has been a membranous ectoocecium, by means of 

 which the thickening layer has been formed. The ooecium lacks a basal mark 

 and has presumably been formed later than the ciyptocyst of the zooecium. 



Avicularia. Immediately proximally to the aperture of the zooecium there is 

 a strongly projecting avicularium, standing out at right angles, the chamber of 

 which is almost of the same breadth as the aperture. Seen from the side it is 

 pointed, triangular, and seen from its mandibular surface it has a rounded, tri- 

 angular form. It is provided with an oval aperture but I have been able to find 

 neither a mandible nor trace of transverse bar. 



In the conchological collection of the Zoological Museum a single dry colony 

 was found incrusting Saxidomus purpuratus from Yokohama. 



The above-desciibed species is only referred with some doubt to the genus 

 Porella. 



Smittina Norman^ (nov. nom.) char, emend. 



Escharella (with subgenera Escharella s. str. and Hserentia) Smitt, 



Smittia Hincks, p. p., Schizoporella Hincks, p. p., Pseudoflustra Bidenkap. 



Spines may be present to a number of 1 — 8. The aperture is provided with 

 a more or less distinctly marked off, as a rule broad, rounded sinus, which 

 sometimes takes up the whole of the proximal margin and the middle part of 

 which is often occupied by a tooth of varying shape. There are well-developed 

 hinge-teeth as a rule. The operculum is in most species membranous or weakly 

 chitinized, often not marked off from the compensation-sac. A peristome may be 

 absent or present in very different degrees of development. Avicularia may appear 

 in very varying positions, but one is usually present proximally to the aperture. 

 The ooecia, which in most cases are either independent or have only a small part 

 of their endoocecial basal wall common with the frontal wall of the zooecium, 

 consist of two calcareous layers, of which the ectoocecium is with few exceptions 

 provided with pores. As a rule there is a more or less developed ooecial cover. 

 The rosette-plates are sometimes uniporous, sometimes with a few or many pores. 



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