I IA PAPERS FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF MARINE BIOLOGY. 



to the first species of the genus as treated in his paper, the name is invalid, as it 

 represents serial misidentification of Forskal's Madrepora solida, which is a species 

 of Porites according to von Marenzeller. Dana applied the nameij/wa parvistella 

 in 1846 to the same species = Goniastrea parvistclla (Dana) Verrill, 1872. Dana's 

 name, therefore, is the proper one, if the species is valid. The type, from the Fiji 

 Islands, is in the U. S. National Museum, No. 67, and is represented by plate 44, 



figures 2, 2a. 



Verrill's cotypes of Goniastrea aspcra from Loo Choo Islands are in the U. b. 

 National Museum, Nos. 402 and 403. I should like to redescribe them in this con- 

 nection, but can not do so at present. However, I will say that I doubt G. aspera 

 really being Goniastrea. Besides having roughly and irregularly dentate septa, the 

 intercorallite walls are often slit, making a combination of characters suggesting 

 affinity with the Cceloria group of Maandra. 



Goniastrea parvistella (Dana). 

 Plate 44, figures 2, 2fl, Dana's type of Astraa parvistella. 

 1846. Asttaa parvistella Dana, U. S. Expl. Exped., Zooph., p. 244, plate 13, figs. 6, 6a-6c. 

 1914. Goniastrea solida Matthai, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 2d ser. ; Zool., vol. 17, p. 117, plate to, fig. ij 

 plate 28, figs. 3, 4; plate 31, fig. 1; plate 33, fig. 4; plate 38, fig 3. 



Notes have already been made on this species. 



Distribution.— Red Sea; Indian Ocean; eastward in the Pacific to the Fiji 

 Islands, whence Dana's type came. 



Goniastrea retiformis (Lam.). 

 Plate is, figure 24, and plate 16, figure 25, of Dr. Mayer's article. 

 1816 Astrea retiformis Lamarck, Hist. nat. Anim. sans Vert, vol. 2 p. 265. 



1914. Goniastrea retiformis Matthai, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 2d sen, Zool., vol. 17. P- U9. P'ate 10, 

 fig. 3; plate 31, figs. 2-5; plates 33, fig. 3; pl"e 38, figs. 2, 4. 



Astraa cerium Dana (original specimens Nos. 64 and 69, U.S. Nat. Mus.) 

 belongs in the synonymy of this species. No. 64 seems to be Dana's type. Prob- 

 ably Astrcea eximia Dana also belongs in the same synonymy; but, although I have 

 repeatedly searched for it, his type seems not to be in the Museum and therefore 

 can not be discussed. 



As this species is one of the best-known Pacific and Indian Ocean corals, 

 redescription seems unnecessary. 



Stations, Murray Island.— Southeast reef, line I: 



500-550 feet from shore; water 6 inches deep; bottom sand and mud (plate 16, fig. 25, Dr. 



Mayer's article). 

 1,200 feet from shore, water 9 inches deep. _ 



1,250 feet from shore, water 16 inches deep (plate 15, fig. 24, Dr. Mayer s article). 

 1,600 feet from shore, water 10 inches deep. 



Distribution— -Red Sea; the Indian Ocean; the Great Barrier Reef; Amboina; 

 Philippine Islands; Fiji Islands; Wake Island, etc. How far eastward it ranges 

 from Fiji Islands is not known. 



Goniastrea pectinata (Ehrenberg). 

 Plate 42 figures 3, 3a, Dana's types of Astraa favulus; figures 4, 4a, Dana's type of Astraa favistella; plate 43, 

 figure 1, Dana's type of Astraa sinuosa; figures 2, 3, 3a, 4. 5. 5«> specimens from Murray Island. 

 Also plate 15, figures 21, 22, 23, of Dr. Mayer's article. 

 1834. Astraa peetinata Ehrenberg, Corallenth. Roth. Meer., p. 96. 

 1846. Astraa favistella Dana, U. S. Expl. Exped., Zooph., p. 241, plate 13, figs. 2, 20-20". 

 1846. Astraa sinuosa Dana, U. S. Expl. Exped., Zooph., p. 243, plate 13, figs. 5, sa-$c 

 1879. Goniastraa pectinata Klunzinger, Korall. Roth. Meer., pt. 3, p. 34, plate 4, fig. 6. 

 1879. Goniastraa favus Klunzinger, Korall. Roth. Meer., pt. 3, p. 35. plate 4> fig- 4. plate 10, fig. 7. 

 1914. Goniastrea pectinata (pars) Matthai, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 2d ser., Zool., vol. 17, p. 120, (non 

 plate 28, fig. 6, nee plate 37, fig. 1). 



Non: 



1907. Goniastrea pectinata Vaughan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 32, p. 257. 



