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Sub-Kingdom — CCELENTERATA. 
Class — Actinozoa. 
The Actiuozoa are but very sparingly represented in the Permo-Carboniferous 
of Queensland and New South Wales * and, so far as known to me, the same 
remark is applicable to Tasmania also. This applies, not only to individual genera 
and species, but also to the orders of the class. The Zoantharia are perhaps repre- 
sented by tlie genus Stenopora, whilst the Eugosa in the present collection number 
but a few ill- presented and undeterminable fragments. If this paucity of tie 
Coral fauna should be found to hold good in the future, as more extended 
researches are carried out, it will, in conjunction with the repeated occurrence ot 
Sfenopora, greatly assist in supporting the view here advocated of the mar e 
Permian facies of portions of the Upper Palteozoic fauna of New South Wales and 
Queensland. 
Order-REGOSA. 
Group— ZAPHEENTOIDEA. 
Pamily-ZAPHEENTIDyE. 
Genus— ZAP SBENTIS, Rafinesque and Clifford, 1820. 
(Ann. Sci. Phys. Bruxelles, v., p. 234.) 
Zaphbentis PEOPTJunA, sp. nov., PI. 44, fig. 1. 
— ^Sp. Char. Corallum long and probably much curved, calice very deep, cuined 
and wide, rather more oval than circular ; floor formed by a very ^ irregular an 
limited tabulum ; a crest or callus is present on the dorsal side, and is formed by a 
convergence of the septa. The latter arc very numerous, at least forty-six prima^ 
and a similar number of secondary, and pass w^ell on to the floor; secondary sep > 
rather more than one-third the length of the primaries ; septal fossiila deep, imme- 
diately under the ventral wall, bounded by two primary septa, and undivided by tn 
intrusion of the counter septum. Dissepiments very numerous, forming a close an 
dense tissue. Depth of the calice eleven lines on the dorsal side, but one and a-Ha 
inch on the ventral ; longest diameter one and a-quarter inch, from the dorsal to 
ventral side. -x j- + from 
Obs. This is a very remarkable species, and appears to be quite clistmc ^ 
any hitherto described Australian form. The large number of septa and the nano 
oblique cfxlice-floor are important and definite characters. The difference be we 
the curvature of the dorsal and ventral sides is very great. The crest is si 
at the top of the elongated fossula, with the dorsal and ventral septa convergi ,, 
thereto, the latter passing along the margins of the fossula; a second ere 
occurs at the immediate entrance to the latter, which does not seem to be other 
divided. ^ 
Loe. and Horizon. Eockhampton District f {C. W. Be Vts) Gyinpie Bed • 
* Bor a full description of all the .species known from N. Wales, sec my Memoir : 
the Carboniferous and Permo-Carboniferous Invertebrata of Isew South Waleg. Pait t. C 
Mem. Gcol. Survey JV. S. Wales, Pal. No. 5. 4to. Sydney, 1891 : by Authority. 
+ Sec note, p. 199. 
