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largely expanded at the elliptical shallow calice, which has a waved margin. The pedicel 

 broadens out rapidly, and is slightly bent in the plane of the minor axis. The costee 

 are subequal, minutely granular above, barely projecting, and their surface here 

 and there merges into a kind of broken granular epitheca. Near the calicular 

 margin the costse are the most distinct ; and close to it they become more prominent, 

 granular, and alternately large and small, and slightly more separate. There is an 

 obliquity of their direction in some places. A few synapticulse exist between some 

 of the costse. 



The calice is open, shallow, and usually has an incurved margin. The septa are 

 very numerous, close, alternately large and small, long, level, granular, and without any 

 definite cyclical arrangement; they join by their sides towards the centre of the calice, 

 and the smaller are wavy. A false columella is formed by the septal ends. There are 

 about 192 septa, and the synapticulse are numerous and slender. 



Breadth of calice 1-^ inch ; length of calice 1^^ inch. 



Height of corallum 1-^ inch. 



Locality. Three miles west of Lynyan, Eanikot group. Survey-number G f|^». 



Illustrations of the Species in Plate VII. 

 Fig. 1. The corallum : natural size. 



2. Costae : magnified. 



3. Septa and synapticulse : magnified. 



5. TuRBiNOSEEis ELEGANS, Duncan. Plate XVI, Figs. 3, 4. 



The corallum has a widely open, irregular-shaped calice, and a more or less conical 

 base. The axial space is elongate, and there is a region around it where there is a 

 kind of indistinct fossa ; around this the calice is undulating, more or less, to the everted 

 margin. 



The septa are very numerous, close, small, often curved, and a few reach the 

 long axial space. Some of these are larger than the others, and between them there 

 are smaller septa, and to these still smaller unite. All are stouter externally, and at 

 the everted edge become covered with epitheca. At the margins the larger and broadest 

 septa, after passing inwards, unite to form the surface near the axial space. There 

 are more than six cycles of septa. Synapticulse are seen at the edge ; and the epitheca 

 is dense, plain, or slightly and irregularly granular. 



Height of the corallum from the base is 1 j^ inch, and the greatest diameter of 

 the calice I^q inches. 



Locality. Jhirk, in the Ranikot group. Survey-number G -fffj. 



Illustrations of the Species in Plate XVI. 

 Fig. 3. The corallum, side view : natural size. 

 4. Some septa: magnified. 

 These species of the genus Turhinoseris are more or less allied to those found in 

 the Eocene of St. Bartholomew, West Indies. The genus does not appear to have 

 European Tertiary allies. 



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