342 
MELICERITITES. 
D. 489. 
D. 358. 
D. 4531. 
D. 4537. 
D. 626. 
D. 356. 
D. 4342. 
Two fragments (on slide). Middle Chalk. Chatham. Gamble 
Coll. Figd. PI. XV. Fig. 4. 
A branch on slide with two specimens of Nodelea durobrivemis, Greg. 
Middle Chalk. Chatham. Gamble Coll. 
A thin branch. Middle Chalk. Chatham. Gamble Coll. 
An irregular branch, of which some zones have hexagonal zooecia of 
the undata type, but in places it has the apertures crowded and 
approximates to the lonsdalei tj'pe. Chalk. S.E. England. 
Toulmin Smith Coll. 
A branch with lozenge-shaped and sub-hexagonal zooecia (on slide). 
Middle Chalk. Chatham. Vine Coll. 
A branched fragment (on slide). Middle Chalk. Chatham. 
Gamble Coll. 
A branched fragment, in hollow flint. Middle Chalk. Chatham. 
Gamble Coll. 
11. Meliceritites ornata (d’Orbigny), 1853. 
Synonymy. 
Nodelea ornata, d’Orhigny, 1853. Bry. Cret. p. 612, pi. 735, figs. 12-16. 
,, ,, Bucaille, 1890. Bry. Seine-Inf. : Bull. Soc. Sci. nat. Rouen, 
vol. XXV. p. 511. 
„ ,, "Waters, 1891. Chil. Char. : Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, 
vol. viii. pi. vi. fig. 10. 
Meliceritites ,, Pergens, 1890. Revision, p. 395. 
,, ,, Pergens, 1895. Bry. Arche de Leves: Bull. Soc. beige Geol. 
vol. viii., Pr. Vb. p. 138. 
,, ,, Pergens, 1895. Bry. Cachemb. : ibid. p. 182. 
Nodelea pulchella, d’Orbigny, 1853. Bry. Cret. p. 613, pi. 736, figs. 1-4. 
,, transversa, d’Orbigny, 1853. Bry. Cret. p. 613, pi. 736, figs. 5-8. 
„ ,, Waters, 1891. Op. cit. pi. vi. fig. 9. 
Diagnosis. 
Zoarium of dichotomous branches. Zooecia hexagonal, and 
often bounded by a ridge, with tubercles at some of the 
angles. Aperture semicircular. Avicularia short, with 
trigonal aperture, contracting to a slit at the upper end. 
Distribution. 
Senonian — Coniacian : Tours and Joue, Indre-et-Loire, in Craie de 
Villedieu ; Vendome and Villardin, Loir - et - Cher ; 
Bougniaux, Charente-Inferieure. 
D. 4797. No. 4 on a slide containing six bryozoa. Turonian : Craie tuffeau. 
Villardin Station, Loir-et-Cher. Purchased 1898. 
