North-Italian Bryozoa

Abstract

C hilostomata .—The Bryozoa dealt with in this paper are, for the most part, from well-known localities in the Vicentine, as Val di Lonte, Montecchio Maggiore, and Brendola. Most of them have been described by Reuss, but at a time when chief attention was paid to the zoarial mode of growth (the shape of the oral aperture and other zocecial characters being considered to be of secondary importance) and when the avicularia and ovicells did not receive the attention now given to them. The first paper treating of North-Italian Bryozoa, of this series, is one by Reuss , in which he refers to a number of species as from an unknown locality in the Vienna Basin; but these, he subsequently found, came from the Val di Lonte, called also Val dell' Onte (but the exact position is Casa Fortuna), in the Vicentine. Although this correction has been made, references are constantly given which show that authors overlook this rectification. From a similar marl in Montecchio Maggiore, a few miles further sout, Reuss also described a number of others, and a couple from Brendola, in the Colle Berici, south of Vicenza; and from Crosaro, some distance to the north-east, a few which appear to be of nearly the same age. In the first three localities the marl contains a very similar fauna; and, having collected from all, I found the Brendola beds the most instructive, and there the preservation is the best. The late Dr. G. B. Gottardi has also given a list