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CRETACEOUS CORALS OR ANTHOZOA 
'pertinentihiis fortisshnis, fere cequalibus, omnibus subcristaiis atque (jramdiferis ; 
columella obsoleta. 
A large and apparently typical species of the genus, having a massive corallum, 
above convex, below somewhat attenuated, and covered with a thin cpi theca. The 
calyces generally vary from 10 — 15 mm. ; some are occasionally ev’-en larger, all 
very shallow, filled up by very numerous dissepiments to near the top. The large 
calyces have four nearly complete cycles of septa, those of the two first cycles 
being almost equal in strength ; smaller calyces have the fourth cycle incomplete, 
or not at all developed ; all the septa arc considerably attenuated, equally and rather 
finely serrated on their upper edges. There is no apparent trace of a columella. 
LocalUy. — North of Alundauapooram, in a grey, coarse, calcareous sandstone ; 
only the figured specimen has been examined. 
Formation. — Trichinopoly group. 
2. ? Mvcetopiiyllia stellata, StoUczJca. PI. V, Eig. 7. 
A small round corallum, about 25 mm. in diameter and 10 in height, Avith the 
uiiper surface moderately convex, the loAvcr covered with a thin conceutrically 
rugose epitheca, and about the centre with a someAvhat irregular rather broad place 
of attachment. The gemmation is extra calicular, as in Mycetopliyllia. The 
calyces arc irrcgidarly distributed over the surface, more or less confluent, smaller 
and larger ones interposed between each other, and of a small depth. The larger 
and perfect calyces have tAvo cycles of sejAta ; those of the first very thick, crested, 
laterally strongly ribbed or dentate ; those of the second much shorter. In the 
smaller, or in the more or less confluent calyces, the development of the septa is by 
no means so regular. The costm are indistinct and short, and the calyces separated 
by confluent A'ariously twisted ridges. 
I notice this species only proAdsionally under the above generic name for 
want of a more appropriate one, hut it most probably belongs to a new genus. 
The single specimen is, howeA'er, not in a sufficient state of preservation to 
characterize a new generic dhTsion. The fossil exhibits, as regards the form of the 
septa, some relation to that described from the Gosau by Prof. Reuss under the 
name oi Aranicis lobata, (Denksch. Akad., Wien, Math. Nat. Klasse, vol. Aui, p. 83, 
pi. xiii, figs. 13 and 14). 
Locality. — East of Parally, in a coarse sandstone. 
Formation. — Ootatoor group. 
XIV. Genius. — STELLORIA, eVOrbigmy, 1849. 
Corallum massNe, with the polypierites directly connected by their mural 
theca, radiating from a central point and extending to tlie peripheiw, AAuth new 
intercalated series ; centre of the calyces quite indistinct, the columella is 
rudimentary or absent. 
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