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small crowded cells, but they have the general habit of that species. 

 Two speciuiens have the characteristic shape and cells of furcata. 



4. Porites compressa Dana, 



Zoophytes, p. 553, pi. 53, fig. 5,8, 18-13.— Qoelcb, Challeuger Reef-Corals, u. 

 180, 1886. 

 Sandwich Islands ; U. S. Expl. Esped., 1838-'42, types ((351,653,711). 



5. Porites cribripora Dana, (?) 



Zoophytes, p. 564, pi. 55, fig. 5, 1846. 



The collection contains a single specimen which appears to bo one of 

 Dana's types of this species, though it is not the specimen figured by 

 him. It bears the catalogue number 670, which would indicate that it 

 belonged to the collection received from the U. S. Exploring Expedi- 

 tion, but it has no other label, and no name or locality was entered 

 under this number in the original record book in which the collection 

 was catalogued. It also corresponds to some extent with Porites ex- 

 pianata Quelch, *obtained by the Challenger Expedition at the Philip- 

 pines. Dana's specimens were from the Fiji Islands. 



6. Porites cyliiidrica Dana, 



Zoophytes, p. 5S9, pi. 54, fig. 4, 1846. 

 Fiji Islancls(?); U. S. Espl, Esped., 1838-'42, type (708). 



7. Porites favosa Dana, 



Zoophytes, p. 564, iil. 55, fig. 4, 1846. 

 Fiji Islands ; U. S. Expl. Exped., 1838-'42, type (672). 



8. Porites fragosa Daua, 



Zoophytes, p. 563, pi. 5*, fig. 9, 1846. 

 Fiji Islands ; U. S. Expl. Exped., 1838-'42, type (643). 



9. Porites furcata Lamarck. 



Foritesfurcaia'Lamixvck, Hist, des Auim. sans Vert., ii, p. 271, 1816.— Dana, 

 Zoophytes, p. .'3.55, 1846.— Agassiz, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vii, No. 1, pi. 

 xii, fig. 7, pi. xvi, figs. 13-20. 



Porites recta Lesuenr, Mem. du Mus., ri, p. 288, pi. 17, fig. 16, 1820.— Dana, 

 Zoophytes, p. 556, 1846. 



(?) Porites fiexuosa Dana, Zoophytes, p. 554, 1846. 

 (Plate XV; pi. XVII, fig. 1.) 



Bahamas : Nassau, New Providence ; U. S. Fish Comm. str. Albatross, 1886 



(15869). 

 Florida: (30S(;). 



Cape Florida : E. Palmer, 1884 (15853). 



(?) Caesar's Creek, 17 miles south of Cape Florida ; E. Palmer, 1884 (15872). 



Key West ; H. Hemphill, 1885 (8903). 



Salt Pond Key and Stock Island, about 6 miles NE. of Key AYest; E. Palmer, 



1884 (15855-15857). 

 Middle Ground, one-half mile NVv. of Key West; E. Palmer, 1884 (15854). 

 Tortngas; Capt. D. P. Woodbury, U. S. A. (1639) ; Colonel Farriuhar, U. S. 

 A. (3930) ; E. Palmer, 18^4 (15850-15852). 

 Barbados, West Indies ; J. D. Dana (704). 

 (?) Curasao, Caribbean Sea; U. S. Fish Comm. str. Albatross, 1884 (15858). 



* Challeuger Eeef-Corals, p. 181, pi. 11, fig. 3, 18S6. 



