CORALS FROM MURRAY, COCOS-KEELING, AND FANNING ISLANDS. 67 



SOME CORALS FROM KERMADEC ISLANDS. 



After submitting the manuscript for this volume for publication I have 

 completed a short paper entitled "Some corals from Kermadec Islands," 

 which has been transmitted for publication in the Transactions of the New 

 Zealand Institute. The collection was made by Mr. W. R. B. Oliver in 

 1908, and was sent to me in 1910 by Professor W. B. Benham of Otago 

 University, Dunedin, with a request that I report on it. As the geographic 

 distribution of the species is interesting in this connection, a list of them 

 with their geographic distribution is inserted below. 



All the species are widely distributed Indo-Pacific corals; 5 of the 8 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. 



Geographic distribution of Kermadec Island corals. 



Na 



Pocillopora bulbosa Ehrenb. 



Orbicella rurta Dana 



Cyphastrea serailia (Forskal) 



Goniastrea benhami Vaughan 



Leptoria tenuis (Dana) 



Sclerophyllia margariticola Klz 



Turbinaria crater (Pallas) 



Montipora caliculata (Dana) Bernard. 



Distribution. 



From Cocos-Keeling Islands to Fiji Islands, represented in the 

 Hawaiian Islands by the closely related, if not specifically 

 identical, P. cespilosa Dana. 



Great Barrier Reef, thence eastward to the Paumotus. 



Red Sea; Indian Ocean; Great Barrier Reef; Philippine Islands. 



Formosa; probably Singapore. 



Southern Philippines; Fiji Islands. 



Red Sea; western Indian Ocean. 



Torres Strait; Amboina. 



Torres Strait; New Guinea; Macclesfield Bank; Kandavu. 



CORALS FROM MURRAY ISLAND ACCORDING TO STATION. 



The following lists include names of all species of corals which Dr. Mayer 

 collected in the vicinity of Murray Island and submitted to me for determina- 

 tion. These lists are more complete than the one given in his discussion of the 

 ecology of the Murray Island coral fauna, as he considers in his article only 

 37 species, while he actually obtained 63 species, not including varieties. 



List of corals on and within 200 feel on both sides of line I, southeast reef, Murray Island, 

 and distance from shore to place at which collected. 



