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Montipora foliosa (Pallas) Bernard. 



Plate 65, figures 2, 2a, lb. 



1897. Montipora foliosa Bernard, Cat. Montipora, p. 158, plate 30, plate 34, fig. 14 (synonymy). 

 1907. Montipora foliosa Bedot, Madreporaires d'Amboine, p. 280, plate 50, figs. 275-279. 

 1910. Montipora Wood Jones, Coral and Atolls, plate 2 (opposite p. 74). 



Description not needed. 



Habitat and color, Cocos-Keeling Islands. — Dr. Wood Jones says of this species: 



"Lives exclusively in the lagoon and most abundantly to the west of Pulu Selma. 

 The large cabbage-like colonies grow upon the sides of composite mounds that rise up in 

 this part of the lagoon and are present on a somewhat restricted area in great luxuriance. 

 While alive the colony is colored olive brown or olive green, the zooids somewhat paler." 



Distribution. — Mauritius; Ramesvaraam; Cocos-Keeling; Amboina; Zambo- 



anga, Philippines; Api, New Hebrides. 



Genus ACROPORA Oken. 



1815. Acropora Oken, Lehrb. Naturg., Th. 3, Abth. 1, p. 66. 



1902. Acropora Verrill, Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts and Sci., vol. II, pp. 164, 208 (with synonymy). 



Type species: Milleporamuricatahinnxus, s.s. = MadreporacervicornisLamarck. 

 The names of the species reported by Brook from Australia and their geographic 

 distribution according to him are given in the following table: 



Species of Acropora reported by Brook from Australia. 



'The specimens from Port Denison and Baudin Island, referred by Brook to A. sccunda (Dana), have been 

 named A. secundella by Verrill. Trans. Conn. Acad. Sci., vol. II, p. 235 (in footnote), 1902. 



