2l6 PAPERS FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF MARINE BIOLOGY. 



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 Plate 59. description 



Fig. 1. Psammocora gonagra Klunzinger, from Murray Island, calices, X6 141 



Figs. 2, 2a. Psammocora haimiana Milne Edwards and Haime, from Cocos-Keeling Islands. Fig. 2, piece 



of a corallum, natural size; fig. 2, calices, X4 I4 1 



Figs. 3, 3a. Psammocora sp., from Cocos-Keeling Islands. Fig. 3, corallum, natural size; fig. 3a, calices, 



X6 141 



Figs. 4, 4a. Psammocora profundacella Gardiner, from Fanning Island. Fig. 4, corallum, natural size; 



fig. 4a, calices, X4 '4 2 



Figs. 5, 5a. Diploastrea heliopora (Lamarck). Fig. 5, calices, fig. 5a, longitudinal section, each X2, of 



Dana's type of Astraa patula, No. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus 143 



Plate 60. 

 Figs, i, la. Dendrophyllia nigrescens Dana, from Murray Island. Fig. I, corallum, X1/2; fig. la, a calice, 



X4- • ■ ■ • ■ '43 



Figs. 2, 2a, 3, 3a. Dendrophyllia diaphana Dana. Figs. 2, 2a, Dana's type, from Singapore, No. 180, U. S. 



Nat. Mus.; fig. 2, corallum, natural size; fig. 2a, calices, X2. Figs. 3, 3a, from Cocos-Keeling 



Islands; fig. 3, corallum, natural size; fig. 3a, calice, X2 144 



Figs. 4, 4a. Dendrophyllia willeyi (Gardiner), from Cocos-Keeling Islands. Fig. 4, corallum, natural size; 



fig. 4a, calices, X2 143 



Figs. 5, ;a. Aslreopora myriophthalma (Lamarck), from Cocos-Keeling Islands. Fig. 5, corallum, natural 



size; fig. 5a, calices, X4 '4^ 



Plate 61. 



Figs, i, la. Montipora levis Quelch, from Cocos-Keeling Islands. Fig. I, corallum, natural size; fig. la, 



calices, X8 15° 



Figs. 2, 2a, 3, 3a. Montipora lortuosa (Dana). Fig. 2, natural size; fig. 2a, calices, X8, of Dana's type from 

 Singapore, No. 310, U. S. Nat. Mus. Fig. 3, natural size; fig. 3a, calices, X8, of specimen 

 from Cocos-Keeling Islands 15° 



Plate 62. 



Figs, i, ia, 2, 3. Montipora ramosa Bernard, all specimens from Murray Island. Figs. 1, 2, 3, views 



natural size; fig. ia, calices, X8, of specimen represented by fig. 1 15° 



Figs. 4, 4a. Montipora lurgescens Bernard, specimen from Murray Island. Fig. 4, part of corallum, 



natural size; fig. 4a, calices, X8 '5 1 



Plate 63. 



Figs, i, ia, lb. Montipora cocosensis new species, from Cocos-Keeling Islands. Fig. 1, corallum, natural 

 size; fig. ia, lower surface, X3, of process shown in lower right-hand corner of fig. 1; fig. lb, 

 calices, X8 152 



Figs. 2, 2a. Montipora spumosa (Lamarck), from Cocos-Keeling Islands. Fig. 2, top view; fig. 2a, side of 



same specimen, each natural size 154 



Fig. 3. Montipora venosa (Ehrenberg), from Murray Island, natural size 153 



Plate 64. 



Figs, i, la. Montipora elschneri, new species, from Fanning Island. Fig. I, corallum, natural size; fig. la, 



calices, X8 154 



Figs. 2, 2a. Montipora sp., from Cocos-Keeling Islands. Fig. 2, side view of lobe, natural size; fig. 2a, 



calices, X8 '55 



Figs. 3, 4, 4a, 4b, 4c. Montipora informis Bernard, specimens from Cocos-Keeling Islands. Fig. 3, part of a 

 lobate specimen, natural size; figs. 4, 4a, 4b, 4c, views of expanding free portion near base 

 of corallum. Fig. 4, upper surface, natural size; fig. 4a, lower surface, natural size; fig. \b, 

 calices of upper surface, X8; fig. 4c, calices of lower surface, X8 156 



Plate 65. 



Figs, i, ia. Montipora aff. M. informis Bernard, from Murray Island. Fig. I, calices of upper surface; 



fig. la, calices of lower surface, each X8 158 



Figs. 2, 2a, 2b. Montipora foliosa (Pallas), from Cocos-Keeling Islands. Fig. 2, general view of entire 

 corallum (photograph on a reduced scale from Dr. Wood Jones); fig. 2a, upper face of a 

 lamina, X8; fig. 2b, outer (lower) surface, X8 159 



Plate 66. 



Figs, i, 2. Acropora pulchra var. alveolata (Brook), from Murray Island. Fig. 1, part of a corallum, 



natural size; fig. 2, a branch terminal, X3 l &- 



Figs. 3, 3a. Acropora pulchra (Brook), from Cocos-Keeling Islands. Fig. 3, end of a branch, natural size; 



fig. 3a, terminal part of same specimen, X3 '62 



Figs. 4, 5. Acropora haimei (Milne Edwards) var., from Murray Island. Fig. 4, natural size; fig. 5, a 



branch terminal, X3. (Other figures of this species are on plate 70, figs. 3, 3a, lb) 164 



