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Polyoeca dichotoma Kent, 1880. Lorica of polythecium urceolate, pedicellate, tapering posterioly, slightly constricted at a distance of one-third of the total length from the anterior margin, and then widening out to their greatest diameter, pediceles of each separate lorica straight, slender, varying from the same to two or three times the length of the latter structure, contained animalcules ovate, occupying respectively about one-half of the cavities of the lorica, contour of polythecium subdichotomous, each zooid usually giving rise by trasverse fission to two new ones which attach themselves to opposite sides of the parent lorica. Length of separate lorica 10 microns