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CRETACEOUS CORALS OR AXTIIOZOA 
closely approaches certain tertiary species of Latimceandra and Ileterogijra, hut 
the fossils are not sufficiently Avell preserved to ensure a thoroughly satisfactory 
determination of the genus. The eoralluin is shortly emspitose and sessile; the 
single iudividuums, although entirely free helow, cemented by the cpithccal mass, 
are not perfectly separated on the outer surface, tlie calyces touching each other in 
a long line by two and two, and thus producing a greater or lessor irregularity in 
the rounded shape of the calyx. The cpithcca reaches up to the margin of the 
calyces and surrounds them ; the latter are rather flat in young, hut more elevated 
in older specimens ; the first have four, the second five cycles of septa, but the 
last cycle appears to remain incomplete ; all the septa, except those of the last 
cycle, are very strong, thickest about the middle of their length, much attenuated 
towards and almost meeting in the centre; their sides arc very distinctly granular. 
The strength of the septa and the projecting epi theca at the edge of the 
calyx exhibits certain relations to similar characters in Thecosmilia (Enplnjllia?) 
siuKosa, Renss, (Dcnksch. Akad., Wien, Math. Naturwiss. Ivlassc, ISol, vol. vii, 
p. 92, pi. 17, fig. 3), from the Alpine Gosau deposits, hut the greater isolation of the 
calyces in the Indian form readily proves its specific distinctness. 
LocaUhj. — Xorth-west of Moraviatoor, in a light brownish limestone, apparently 
not common. 
Formation. — Ootatoor group. 
XI. Genus. — IIOLOCCEXIA, Milne-Edwards and Haime, 1851. 
Hist. Nat. (les Corall., vol. ii, p. 249. 
Corallum solid, globular or branched, with the calyces irregularly distributed 
over the surface, connected by short, confluent costce, Avhich extend from the septa 
so as somewhat to obliterate the edges of the calyces ; septa serrated, thin, arranged 
in six systems ; columella solid and large. 
This genus was proposed by Milne-Edwards and Ilaime for a lower cretaceous 
species of a globular shape, Astrea micrantha, Romcr, which was subsequently 
also found in the Dept, de TYonne. In the description of that species, the authors 
of the Mist. Nat. des. Corall. distinctly state that the septa are serrated, and the 
same is to be observed in at least one of two Indian species. It is, therefore, clear 
that the genus cannot belong to the Stylixidje, but has to be referred to the 
SYMrilYLLIXjE of the AsTMEJV/E. 
1. IIoLOCCEXiA R.UIOSA, StoUczIca. PI. IV, Pigs. 4 — 5. 
IIoloc. corallum era sse ramosum, ramis cylindraceis aut suh-compressis ; cahjeihus 
undiqne sparsls, rolundulls aut rotnndale suh-angulatis, 1'5 ad 2 mm. laiis atque 
1 ad 1'5 mm. inter se dislantibus, eorum marginibus in superficie qjerfecta panto 
eleoatis, costis transeuntibus crenidalis ; septis in tribus cyclis perfectis dispositis, 
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