CORALS FROM MURRAY, COCOS-KEELING, AND FANNING ISLANDS. 213 

 Plate %6.— Favia speciosa (Dana). PAGE OF THE 



DESCRIPTION 



Fig. 1. Calices, X2, of Dana's type of A strata speciosa, No. 37, U. S. Nat. Mus 103 



Figs. 2, za. Two views of a hitherto unidentified specimen collected by the U. S. Expl. Exped., No. 34, 



U. S. Nat. Mus., intermediate in characters between A. speciosa Dana and A. puteolina Dana. 



Fig. 2, corallum viewed from above, natural size; fig. 2a, summit calices, X2 103 



Fig. 3. Calices, X2, of Dana's type of Astraa puteolina, No. 33, U. S. Nat. Mus 103 



Figs. 4, 4a. Calices, X2, of Dana's type of Astraa pandanus, No. 36, U. S. Nat. Mus. Fig. 4, summit 



calices; fig. 4a, calices on the side, near lower edge of corallum. General view of corallum on 



plate 37, fig. I I0 3 



Plate 37. — Favia speciosa (Dana). 



Fig. 1. General view, natural size, of Dana's type of Astraa pandanus, No. 36, U. S. Nat. Mus. Enlarged 



views of calices on plate 36, figs. 4 and 4a I°3 



Fig. 2. Dana's type of Astraa fragilis, No. 24, U. S. Nat. Mus., calices, X2 103 



Fig. 3. Specimen from Murray Island, calices, X2 103 



Figs. 4, 4a. Specimen from Cocos-Keeling Islands. Fig. 4, cross-section of corallites; fig. 4a, longitudinal 



section of corallites, each X2 I0 3 



Plate 38. — Favia pallida (Dana). 



Fig. I. Dana's type of Astraa pallida, No. 30, U. S. Nat. Mus., calices, X2 10; 



Fig. 2. Favia pallida, facies I, from Murray Island, calices, X2 106 



Fig. 3. Favia pallida, facies 2, from Murray Island, calices, X6 I°7 



Fig. 4. Favia pallida, facies 3, from Murray Island, calices, X2 107 



Fig. 5. Favia pallida, facies 4, from Murray Island, calices, X2 I°7 



Fig. 6. Favia pallida, facies 5, from Murray Island, calices, X 2 107 



Fig. 7. Favia pallida, facies 6, from Murray Island, calices, X2 107 



Plate 39. 



108 



Figs, i, ia. Favia dana Verrill, type, No. 32, U. S. Nat. Mus. Fig. 1, general view, natural size; fig. ia, 

 calices, X2 • 



Figs. 2, 2a, zb. Favia matthaii, new species. Fig. 2, general view, natural size; fig. 2a, calices, X2; fig. zb, 



view to show character of septal margins, X4 io 9 



Plate 40.- — Favites abdita (Ellis and Solander). 



Fig. 1. Dana's type of Astraa robusta, No. 63, U. S. Nat. Mus., general view of part of specimen, natural 



size io 9 



Fig. 2. Dana's type of Astraa fiexuosa, No. 27, U. S. Nat. Mus., general view, natural size 109 



Fig. 3. Specimen identified by Dana as Astraa fusco-viridis, No. 28, U. S. Nat. Mus., general view, natural 



size : I0 9 



Fig 4 Specimen from Murray Island, calices, X2. Septa not so crowded as in specimen represented by 



fig-5 I09 



Fig. 5. Specimen from Murray Island, calices, X2. Septa crowded 109 



Plate 41. 



Figs, i, 2, 3. Favites halicora (Ehrenberg). Calices from three specimens from Murray Island, to show 



variation, each view X2 uo 



Figs. 4, 5. Favites virens (Dana). Fig. 4, calices, X2, of Dana's type of Astraa virens, No. 26, U. S. Nat. 



Mus. Fig. 5, calices, X2, of a specimen from Murray Island Ill 



Figs. 6, 6a. Favites melicerum (Ehrenberg). Two views of a worn specimen from Cocos-Keeling Islands; 



fig. 6, natural size; fig. 6a, calices, X4 lIZ 



Plate 42. 



Figs, i, 2. Favites pentagona (Esper). Fig. 1, reproduction of Esper's enlarged view of the calices, scale 2 1/2 

 natural size. Fig. 2, calices, X2 1/2, of a specimen from French Somaliland. The essential 

 identity is obvious ' I2 



Figs. 3, 3a, 4, 4a. Goniastrea peclinata (Ehrenberg). Figs. 3, 3a, two views of Dana's type of Astraa favulus, 

 No. 66, U. S. Nat. Mus.; fig. 3, natural size; fig. 3a, calices, X2. Figs. 4, 4a, two views of 

 Dana's type of Astraa favistella. No. 73, U. S. Nat. Mus.; fig. 4, natural size; fig. 4a, calices, X 2 . . 114 



