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Art. XVII.- — Some Corals from Kermadec Islands* 



By Thomas Wayland Vaughan, Geologist in charge of Coastal Plain 

 Investigation, United States Geological Survey ; Custodian of Madre- 

 porarian Corals, United States National Museum. 



Communicated by Professor W. B. Benham, F.R.S. 



[Read before the Otago Institute, 1st August, 1916 ; received by Editors, 30th December, 

 1916; iss ued separately, 16th August, 1917.] 



Plates XVII-XX. 



Professor W. B. Benham, in 1910, forwarded to me the collection of corals 

 made by Mr. W. K. B. Oliver in the Kermadec Islands in 1908, with the 

 request that I send him a report, but other duties obliged me to defer care- 

 fully studying it until May, 1916. The specimens on which the following 

 notes or descriptions are based were presented to the U.S. National Museum 

 by Professor Benham, except the paratype of Goniastrea benhami, which 

 has been returned ; duplicate specimens or parts of specimens were retained 

 by him, and are deposited in the University of Otago, New Zealand. 



In a paper entitled " Some Shoal-water Corals from Murray Island, 

 Australia, Cocos-Keeling Islands, and Fanning Island," now in press as part 

 of Publication 213 of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, the following 

 species, which also occur in the Kermadec Islands, are considered in some 

 detail and figured : Pocillopora bulbosa Ehrenberg, Orbicella curta Dana, 

 Cyphastrea serailia (Forskal), Leptoria tenuis (Dana). As the memoir 

 mentioned is not yet in proof, references to the pages on which the descrip- 

 tions will appear and references to the plates and figures cannot now be 

 given. 



Geographic Distribution of Corals from Kermadec Islands. 



Name. Distribution. 



Pocillopora bulbosa Ehrenberg From Cocos-Keeling Islands to Fiji Islands ; 



represented in the Hawaiian Islands by 

 the closely related if not specifically 

 identical P. cespitosa Dana. 



Orbicella curta Dana . . Great Barrier Reef, thence eastward to the 



Paumotus. 



Cyphastrea serailia (Forskal) . . Bed Sea ; Indian Ocean ; Great Barrier 



Beef ; Philippine Islands. 



Goniastrea benhami n. sp. . . Formosa ; probably* Singapore. 



Leptoria tenuis (Dana) . . South Philippines ; Fiji Islands. 



Sclerophyllia margariticola Klz. Red Sea ; west Indian Ocean. 



Turbinaria crater (Pallas) . . Torres Strait ; Amboina. 



Montipora caliculata (Dana) Torres Strait ; New Guinea ; Macclesfield 

 Bernard Bank ; Kandavu. 



All the species are widely distributed Indo-Pacific corals ; five of the 

 eight are known from eastern Australia, while another occurs both east and 

 west of the Great Barrier Reef. Two of the species are known from the 

 Philippines or Formosa, but as yet have not been authentically reported 

 from Australia. 



* Published by permission of the Director of the U.S. Geological Survey. The 

 illustrations for this paper were furnished by the U.S. Geological Survey. 



