OP SOUTHERN INDIA. 
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three new species from the cretaceous beds, L. simplex, injlata, and halanophyl- 
oides. A sixth one occurs in Southern India. 
Lopiiosmilia similabis, Stoliezka. PI. II, Pio-. 6. 
LopU. corallum siib-cylindraceunx, modice elevatiim, parte infer iori paulo con ~ 
tractum atque basi lata irregulari sessile ; sectione elliptiea ; coslis ceqnaUhns, latis, 
prope calicem distinctissimis, sub-granulosis; calice paulo contracto, concaviusculo ; 
septis in quinque cyclis dispositis, cyclo ultimo in specimine unico, tU videtur, imper- 
fecto, modice undulatis, septis primi atqixe secundi ordinis terminationibus internis 
paulum incrassatis ; columella circiter quartam partem diametri majoris longa, 
undulata, quasi quadrilobata. 
The single specimen bears a great resemblance to Promentcl’s L. injlata; it 
has a similar sub-cylindrical stem, sessile by a broad base ; the costoe are all equal 
and sub-granular; the calyx was also little contracted, with the edges of the 
costte somewhat projecting, but it had to be filed off in order to show clearly the 
disposition of the septa. Of these there are four complete, and a fifth apparently 
incomplete cyclo ; the primary and secondary ones are conspicuously thickened at 
the inner ends. The columella equals in length about one-fourth of the longer 
diameter ; it is somewhat undulating, as if it were four-lol)ed, a circumstance which 
supports M. -Edwards and Ilaimes’ statement regarding the identity of Lopiios- 
milia and Actinosmilia. 
Locality . — Near Odium, in a yellowdsh limestone. 
Formation . — Ootatoor group. 
Lopiiosmilia is closely allied to Flacosmilia, but while in the former the 
corallum is usually of small size with the costm most distinct near the calyx, with 
the septa generally somewhat attenuated at the inner ends, and with a very small 
number of dissepiments, the same is in the latter generally of moderate size with 
the costoe well developed in the entire length, with the septa internally usually 
thickened or truncated, and with very numerous dissepiments. 
Of Flacosmilia, adopted in this signification, only a single fragmentary speci- 
men has been found east of Parally in a calcareous rock belonging to the lowest 
beds of the Ootatoor group. 
The specimen, see figs. 7 and 7« on plate ii, has the outer surface covered with 
sharp, unequal granular cost®, of which three subequal ones are interposed between 
two stronger ones. Tho section of the corallum is clongately oval, with a colu- 
mella equalling one-third of the longer diameter. There are five complete cycles, 
and a sixth incomplete cycle of septa, those of the first and second order being 
truncate at the inner ends ; the dissepiments are very numerous. Until better 
specimens have been discovered, it will not be possible to give a reliable cliarac- 
teristic of the species, or to identify it with any other previously known. 
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