56 EOCENE AND LOWER OLIGOCENE COEAL FAUNAS. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF SPECIES. 



Order ALCYONARIA Milne-Edwards and Haime. 



Family Ir^ENNATULID^ai: M.-EcIm-. and H. 



Genus GRAPHULARIA M.-Edw. and H. 



Geaphularia pekplexa (de Gregorio.) 



PI. II, figs. 7 to 8b (reproduced from de Gregorio.) 



1890. CoralUnni pcrplexum de Gregorio. Mou. de la Fauue eocenique de I'Ala., p. 253, 



pi. xliv, tigs. 5 a, b, c and G a, b, c. 



"Cor. cyliudraceum Ifevigatum, ad sectionem rotundatuin, lateribus 

 tenue compressum." 



Translation: "Cor. cylindrical, smooth, with round section, sides niuch 



compre 



M. de Gregorio adds the following observations : "This is a A-ery inter- 

 esting species, because this genus is xerj poorl}- represented in the Tertiary 

 sti'ata. The section shows a slightly radiating structure and a kind of cen- 

 tral nucleus. The external surface is polished; however, it appeared to me 

 tuberculous, but upon examining it better, I perceived that its irregularities 

 were produced l)y occasionally attached foreign liodies. I possess only two 

 specimens." 



Neither the locality nor the geological occurrence is given. 



Order ZOANTHARIA Milne-Edwards and Haime. 



Suborder ZOANTHARIA SCLEIKJDERMATA M -Edw. and H. 



Family TURBINC )LI13.F: M.-Edw. and H. 

 Genus FLABELLUM Lesson. 



Flabellum conoideum sp. nov. 



PI. Ill, figs. ] to 4. 



1894. FlalieUnm coiioidoHm Vaughan noni. iiud. Rept. geol. Ooast. PL Ala. : Ala. 

 Geol. Survey, 1894, p. 248. 



Attached by a small short pedicel. Slightly compressed conical in 

 shape. No lateral wing or lateral processes. Cross section elliptical, 

 rounded at the ends of the longer transverse axis, not angular, as is usually 

 the case with the others of our Eocene species of Flabellum. Obscure 

 costse correspond to the primary and secondary septa. Lines of growth 

 are well marked; sometimes corresponding to them are girdling, rather 

 shallow, depressions. The wall is thin at its upper edge, but thick in its 



