FUNGIA SYMMETRICA. 43 



Family STYLASTERID^ Gray. 



STYLASTER Gray. 



Stylaster punctatus I'ourt. 



PI. V 11. figs. 8, 9. 



(Fig. 9 is the typical specimen from the Straits of Florida.) 



A slender variety of this species was dredged rather abundantly off Bar- 

 bados in 100 fixthoms. It differs from the typical specimen by its more slen- 

 der branches, and the color, which is orange-pink, whilst the other is purple. 



DISTICHOPORA Lamk. 



Distichopora barbadensis n. sp. 



PL VII fig. 10. 



Small, not much ramified, branches almost cylindrical, compressed at the 

 end. Coenenchyma rather I'ough. Calicles not in a furrow, except slightly 

 at the end of the branches. Interseptal pores tuberculated and in two nearly 

 equal rows. Color pink with whitish tips. 



Rather abundant in 100 fathoms, off Bai'bados. 



Plate VII. fig. 11 represents Distichopora cervina Pourt. (Illust. Cat. Mus. 

 Comp. Zool., No. IV., p. 39, note.) 



Family EUPSAMMID^E M.-Edw. & H. 



BALANOPHYLLIA Skarles Wood. 



Balanophyllia floridana Pourt. 



PI. VI. fig. 20. 



Two small specimens dredged off Barbados in 100 fathoms appear to be- 

 long to this species, though differing slightly in some particulars from the 

 Florida form. 



Family FUNGID^ Dana. 



FUNGIA Lamk. 

 Fungia symmetrica Pourt. 

 Barbados, 100 fathoms. 



