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PAPERS FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF MARINE BIOLOGY. 



perhaps in the light of larger collections. Although Bernard did excellent work on 

 the morphology of the coral skeleton (in fact his work is of fundamental import- 

 ance), he seems never to have been able to group his specimens into what is under- 

 stood by systematists as species. His species are merely morphologic variations, 

 and many of the names he proposed will not persist in the literature. 



Species of Turbinaria reported by Bernard from Australia. 



Name. 



T. crater (Pallas). 



dana; Bernard 



edwardsi Bernard . . 



plicata Bernard 



undata Bernard. . . , 

 speciosa Bernard. . . 

 aurantiaca Bernard. 

 a?qualis Bernard 



pustulosa Bernard . . . 



nidifera Bernard 



abnormalis Bernard.. 

 pocilliformis Bernard. 



peltata (Esper) 



T. patula Dana . 



Localities. 



T. 



T. 

 T. 

 T. 



orhicnlaris Bernard . 

 radicalis Bernard . . 

 agaricia Bernard. . . 

 magna Bernard. . . . 



T. robusta Bernard. 



sinensis Verrill 



venusta Bernard 



mesenterina Bernard, 

 lichenoides Bernard. . 



reptans Bernard 



reniformis Bernard... 



crassa Bernard 



elegans Bernard 



King's Sound and Roebuck Bay, West Australia; Thursday 



Island; Great Barrier Reef. 

 Malay Seas; west Singapore; Formosa; Australia. 

 King's Sound and Roebuck Bay, West Australia. 

 Roebuck Bay, West Australia. 

 King's Sound, West Australia. 

 Port Denison. 



Port Denison, Great Barrier Reef, and Torres Straits. 

 Wednesday Island, Torres Strait; Great Barrier Reef; 



Basset-Smith Shoal, Holothuria Reef. 

 Port Denison, Great Barrier Reef; Gulf of Carpentaria. 

 Great Barrier Reef. 

 Great Barrier Reef. 

 Northwest Australia. 

 King's Sound, Northwest Australia; Roebuck Bay, West 



Australia; Shark's Bay; Somerset, Cape York; Wide 



Bay, Great Barrier Reef; Port Denison; Singapore; 



Malay Seas; Mauritius. 

 Sumatra; Wednesday Island, Torres Straits; Holothuria 



Bank; Gulf of Carpentaria; Great Barrier Reef. 

 King's Sound, West Australia; Somerset Shore, Cape York. 

 Great Barrier Reef. 

 Torres Straits (west). 

 Shark's Bay; Wednesday Island, Torres Straits; Green 



Island, Great Barrier Reef; Port Denison. 

 Port Denison, Queensland; Torres Straits (west); Gulf 



of Carpentaria; Great Barrier Reef; North Australia; 



Port Essington; Northeast Australia. 

 Formosa; Rocky Island, Great Barrier Reef. 

 Great Barrier Reef. 



Island of Rodriguez; Great Barrier Reef. 

 Great Barrier Reef; Townsend, Great Barrier Reef. 

 Torres Straits. 



Palm Islands, Great Barrier Reef. 

 Great Barrier Reef. 

 Tongatabu; Rocky Island, Great Barrier Reef. 



Dr. Mayer collected no specimens of Turbinaria at Murray Island, nor did 

 Dr. Wood Jones collect any in the Cocos-Keeling group. There are in the U. S. 

 National Museum one good specimen of T. crater and a suite of three specimens of 

 T. peltata from Torres Straits. As Bernard has described these species in detail 

 and published illustrations of them, they need only be mentioned here. 



Genus MONTIPORA Quoy and Gaimard. 



1833. Monlipora Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. de 1' Astrolabe, Zool., vol. 4, p. 247. 



1847. Montipora Bernard, Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Cat. Madreporaria, vol. 3, the genus Montipora, 

 pp. 1-166, 177-184. 



Type species: Montipora verrucosa Quoy and Gaimard inon Lamarck) = Monti- 

 pora fovcolata (Dana). As Dana's type of Manopora foveolata^ appears not to be 

 in the U. S. National Museum, I can not redescribe and figure it, as I had desired. 



