106 A. E. Verrill — Bermudian and West Indian Reef Corals. 



Plesiastraea Goodei Verrill. 



These Trans., x, p. 553, pi. lxvii, fig. 1, 1900. 



In addition to the type, I have seen another fine Bevmudian speci- 

 nien <>f this species, in the American Museum, Xew York, collected 

 on a reef in Bailey Bay, at the depth of ahout 20 feet, by Mr. R. I'. 



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Figure 1. — Plesiastnca Goodei Ver. Part of type. x 4. 



Whitfield, in 189*7. It is about 10 inches in diameter, in the form of 

 a somewhat irregular and lobulated hemisphere. 



The same museum has two smaller specimens, in the form of sub- 

 conical masses, 3 to 4 inches in diameter, obtained in the Bahamas 

 by Mr. R. P. Whitfield. These also agree very closely with the 

 type in all essential points, but some of them have the calicles more 

 crowded, smaller, and subangnlar in some areas. 



Stephanoccenia intersepta (Esper.) Edw. and H. 



Madrepora intersepta Esper, Pflanz.. Forts., I, p. 99, pi. lxxix. 1 T9T. 



Astrea intersepta Lam., Hist. Anim. s. Vert., ii. p. 266, 1816: ed. ii, p. 417. 



(nun Dana). 

 Stephanoccenia intersepta and S. Michelini Edw. and Haime, Ann. ScL Nat., 



x, pp. 300, 301, pi. 7, fig. 1-lb, 1849; Hist. Corall.. ii. pp. 260, 266. 1857. 



Gregory, Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc. London, li, p. 276, pi. xi. tigs. 5a, 56, 6, 



1895. Vaughan, op. cit,, p. 20, 1901. 

 Antillastrcea spongiformis Duncan, Revision Mad., p. 108. 1S84. (t. Gregory 



from type). 



The recent specimens that I have seen from the West Indies agree 

 better with S. Michelini. which is, perhaps, only a massive variety 

 of S. intersepta. 



The American Museum, New York, has a large lobulated mass, 

 over a foot in diameter, from Jamaica, This lias six large rounded 

 lobes, the largest about 6 inches in diameter, rising from a common 

 basal mass. 



The septa are much exsert, narrow, entire, and with the inner 

 edge perpendicular, leaving a narrow central cup. The columella is 



