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KEPTELEA. 
the genera of Eleida). for the Ceids represent only worn and nsually 
indeterminable specimens, in which the front wall has been lost. 
Haase ^ has suggested the Alcyonarian affinity of some at least 
of the Ceidse. 
E.EPTELEA, d’Orhigny, 1853.2 
Synonyms. 
Escharlna, pars, cl’Orbigny, 1850. 
Biastopora, pars, d’Orbiguy, 1850. 
Scmielea, pars, d’Orbiguy, 1853 ; Tergens, 1890. 
Diagnosis. 
Eleidse with the zoarium having an adnate, hercnicoid habit. 
There are no avicularia. 
Type Species. 
Reptelea pidchella^ d’Orbigny, 1853. Senonian and Turonian : 
France. 
1. Reptelea pulchella, d’Orhigny, 1853. 
Synonymy. 
Reptelea pulchella, d’Orbigny, 1853. Bry. Cret. p. 642, pi. 738, figs. 16, 17. 
Semielea plana, d’Orbigny, 1853. Bry. Cret. p. 638, pi. 738, figs. 12-14. 
,, ,, pars, Pergens, 1890. Eevision, p. 393. 
,, ,, Pergens, 1893. Bry. St. Pat. : Bidl. Soc. beige Geol. 
A’ol. vi., Pr. Yb. p. 210. 
,, ,, pars, Canu, 1897. Bry. St. Cal. ; Bull. Soc. geol. Fr. 
ser. 3, vol. xxv. p. 750, pi. xxii. fig. 6. 
Diagnosis. 
Zoarium thin, irregular, undulating. 
Apertures triangular, and surrounded by a well - marked 
peristome ; they are arranged quincuncially. 
Zooecia hexagonal in shape externally. The front wall is tumid 
or depressed ; in the latter case (var. plana) the zooecia are 
separated by ridges. Zooecia sometimes closed by a tubular caj). 
Gonocysts small, occupying the space of about six zooecia. 
^ C. Haase. Foss. Alcyon. : N. Jahrb. 1890, vol. ii. p. 60. 
* Bry. Cret. p. 642. 
