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III. Descriptions or SPectIss. 
The following 25 species are included in this account: the specimens 
described are in the Indian Museum. 
I have here to record my best thanks to Mr, Jeffrey Bell, M.A., for his 
kindness in comparing duplicate specimens of the Desmophyllum, Solenosmilia, 
and Lophohelia here described, with certain types in his charge in the British 
Museum. 
Caryophyllia communis, Seguenza, Moseley. 
Caryophyllia ambrosia, n. sp. 
Caryophyllia scillaeomorpha, A. A. 
Oaryophyllia ephyala, A. A. 
Caryophyllia paradozus, n. sp. 
Acanthocyathus grayi, Edw. & H, 
Trochocyathus rotulus, n. sp. 
Trochocyathus sp. 
Deltocyathus andamanicus, n. sp. 
Thecocyathus cincticulatus, n. sp. 
Stephanotrochus nitens, A. A. 
Stephanotrochus oldhami, A. A. 
Desmophyllum vitreum, n. sp. 
Flabellum paripavoninum, A. A. 
Flabellum laciniatum, Philippi. 
Flabellum laciniatum ? var. nov. 
Flabellum japonicum, Moseley. 
Bhizotrochus crateriformis, A. A. 
Lophohelia investigatoris, n. sp. 
Amphihelia moresbyi, n. sp. 
’ Cyathohelia axillaris, Ell. & Sol. 
Oyathohelia formosa, n. sp. 
Solenosmilia jeffreyi, n. sp. 
Bathyactis symmetrica, Moseley. 
Bathyactis stephana, A. A. 
Family TURBINOLIDA, Edw. & H., Martin Duncan. 
Sub-family Caryophylline, Bdw. & H. 
i, CaryopHytuia, Lamk., Stokes, Martin Duncan. 
1. Caryophyllia commaturis (Seguenza) Moseley. 
Ceratocyathus communis, Seguenza, Mem. Acead. Sci. Torino, ser. 2, vol. xxi. 1864, p- 547, pl. v. figs. 7, 7a-c; 
and pl. xv. figs. 10, 11. 
Caryophyllia communis, Moseley, ‘Challenger’ Deep-Sea Madreporaria, p. 185, pl. i. figs. 4, 5: Pourtalés, Bull. 
Mus. Comp. Zool. vol. vi. p. 100, pl. i. figs. 12, 13: A. Agassiz, Three Cruises of the ‘Blake’ II. p. 148, fig. 462 : 
Jourdan, Zoanthaires ‘ Hirondelle’ (Monaco, 1895), p. 12, pl. i. figs. 7, 8. 
Four specimens from off the North Maldive Atoll, 210 fms., and a large 
specimen from off the Travancore coast, 410 fms., are identical with specimens 
