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3- Caryophyllia panda n. sp. Plate I. Fig. 3, ^a. 

 Stat. 177. 2°24'.5S., i29°3S'.5E. 1633 m. i Ex. 



This specie.s is closely related to C. arena fa Edw. & H. and to Caryophyllia (not 

 Ccratocyathns) zanclaa Seg., also to C. cphyala mihi, from all of which it differs in havino- the 

 septa of the fourth cjxle larger and very much more exsert than those of the third. 



Corallum curved, moderately compressed, expanding from a stout pedicle which is attached 

 by a broad encrusting base, the thecal wall is finely granular, the costa; showing as fine striae. 



Septa stout, 48 in number in six regular sy.stems, those of the first two cycles are 

 equal and are conspicuously large and exsert, those of the fourth cycle are larger and much 

 more exsert than those of the third : the surfaces of all are denticulate. 



Pali large, flexuous, 1 2 in number placed opposite the septa of the third cycle ; their 

 surface is strongly but bluntly denticulate. 



The columella consists of two or three curling ribbons. 



The corallum is glistening white. 



Greatest height of corallum about 35 millim. 

 Major diameter of calicle 19 „ 



» n n I 5 n 



Minor 



4. Caryophyllia ephyala Alcock. 



Caryophyllia ephyala Alcock. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Jan. 1891, p. 6. 

 Investigator Deep-Sea Madreporaria, p. 13, p]. I. figs. 4, A,a. 



Stat. 59. io°22'.7S., i23°i6'.5E. 390 m. i dead Ex. 

 Stat. 95. 5°43'.5 N., 119° 40' E. 522 m. i dead Ex. 

 Stat. 251. 5°2S'.4S., 132° o'.2 E. 204 m. 2 Ex. 



The two specimens from Station 251 and that from Station 95, though they do not 

 agree in every detail with the specimens from the Andaman and Laccadive Seas, are not to 

 be separated from them. The differences appear to be due partly to age, and partly to slight 

 malformation in one specimen. 



Distribution: Laccadive Sea, Andaman Sea, Banda Sea. 



5. Caryophyllia sp. (an claviis?). 



Stat. 95- 5°43'.5N., 119° 40' E. 522 m. 7 Ex., dead and worn. 

 Stat. 100. 6° 11' N., I20°37'.5E. 450 m. 3 Ex., dead and worn. 

 Stat. 259. 5°29'.2S., i32°52'.5E. 487 m. i Ex., dead. 



These specimens are all dead and worn and are not identifiable with certainty, but they 

 are extremely like C clavns. 



6. Caryophyllia clavns var. fransversalis IVIoseley. 



Caryophyllia clavns var. traiisvcrsalis Moseley. Challenger Deep-Sea Madreporaria, p. 134. 

 pi. I. figs. 2, 2a. 



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