GEOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS IN FIJI. 85 



Dr. T. W. Vaughan of the United States Geological Survey kindly 

 examined the corals collected by the writer from the Lau Group and 

 from the elevated reef at Suva. He pronounced them Pleistocene or 

 Recent, (See Table I). 



TABLE I. 



List of Fossils Collected, with Heights above Sea. 



A. Corals, — Determined by Dr. T. W. Vaughan. 



(Many of the species are figured in Pub. 213, Carnegie Institution 

 of Washington.) 



Acropora sp.?, South of Ndelai Yaloi, Kambara, (8 to 10 feet). 

 DendrophylUa sp.?, Hill just east of the mouth of the Singatoka river, (60 to 70 



feet). 

 Diploastrea heliopora (Lamarck), 3§ miles east of Na Sana Sana, S. W. Viti 



Levu, (15 to 20 feet). 

 Diploastrea heliopora (Lamarck), West of Nandi bay, S. E. Vanua Levu, (10 



to 15 feet) 

 Favia stelligera (Dana), South of Ndelai Yaloi, Kambara, (8 to 10 feet). 

 Favia aff. F. speciosa (Dana), Navindamu, Fulanga, (10 feet). 

 Favia sp.?, Mana Islands, Ono-i-lau, (10 to 15 feet). 



Favites abdita (Elhs and Solander)?, Nasangalau, Lakemba, (75 to 100 feet). 

 Favites abdita (EUis and Solander)?, West of Nandi bay, S. E. Vanua Levu, 



(10 to 15 feet). 

 Fungia sp.?, Walu bay, Suva, Viti Levu, (30 to 50 feet). 

 Fungia sp.?, Mbuambua, West of the mouth of the Singatoka river, (15 to 20 



feet). 

 Galaxea clavus (Dana)?, Navindamu, Fulanga, (75 to 100 feet). 

 Gala.xea sp.?, Nasangalau, Lakemba, (75 to 100 feet). 

 Goniastrea sp.?, Ndelai Yaloi, Kambara, (8 to 10 feet). 

 Goniopora sp.?, Navindamu, Fulanga, (10 feet). 



Hydnophora cf . H. exesa (Pallas)?, Dalithoni, Vanua Mbalavu, (10 to 15 feet). 

 Leptastrea bottae (M. Edw. & H.), Dalithoni, Vanua Mbalavu, (10 to 15 



feet). 

 Leptoria tenuis (Dana)?, Yanuia Islands, Ono-idau, (10 feet). 

 Leptoria gracilis (Dana), West of Nandi bay, S. E. Vanua Levu, (10 feet). 

 Maeandra aff. M. lamellina (Ehrenberg), Yanuia islands, Ono-i-lau, (10 to 15 



feet). 

 Maeandra(Coeloria) sp.?, Mbuambua, west of the mouth of the Singatoka 



River, (15 to 20 feet). 

 Maeandra sp.?, Nasangalau, Lakemba, (75 to 100 feet). 

 Montipora sp.?, Dalithoni, Vanua Mbalavu, (10 to 15 feet). 

 Orbicella sp.?. South of Ndelai Yaloi, Kambara, (8 to 10 feet). 

 Pocillopora grandis (Dana)?, Nasangalau, Lakemba, (75 to 100 feet). 

 Porites sp.?. South of Ndelai Yaloi, Kambara, (10 to 15 feet). 

 Porites sp.?, Mana islands, Ono-i-lau, (10 to 15 feet). 



Symphyllia nobilis (Dana)?, South of Ndelai Yaloi, Kambara, (10 to 15 feet). 

 Stylophora pistillata (Esper)?, Nasangalau, Lakemba, (10 to 15 feet). 

 Stylophora sp.?. South of Ndelai Yaloi, Kambara, (10 to 15 feet). 



