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Pavonia crassa, Dana. Madrepora abrotanoides, Lamk. (?). 
»  adiwaricata, Lamk. re plantaginea, Lamk. (?). 
Psammocora obtusangula, Lamk. Montipora verrucosa, Lamk. 
Turbinaria brassica, Dana. es papillosa, Lamk. 
Madrepora pocillifera, Lamk. Porites lutea, Edw. and H. 
4 verrucosa, Edw. and H. »  a@renosa, Esper. ‘ 
Porites levis, Dana. 
2. Krgrt IsLanps. 
Fifty-nine species of True Corals, representing twenty-nine genera, and one Hydro- 
coral, were obtained. They were collected at— 
(a) Kandavu. 
(b) Levuka. 
(c) Other Reefs, Fiji. 
(a) Kandavu.—Thirty species of True Corals, representing eighteen genera, and one 
Hydrocoral were collected. 
Speaking of the Corals at Kandavu, Professor Moseley writes :—“ It is in the shallow 
‘sheltered water inside the actual edge of the barrier that the finest and best grown 
specimens of the Corals are to be found. The tufts, bushes, and rounded masses of the 
various Corals are to be seen growing here in abundance, but yet scattered over the area, 
with plenty of more or less barren interspaces in the ‘ Coral plantation’ as Dana terms it. 
The various forms of the spongy-tissued Madreporas are the characteristic feature in the 
Fijian reefs, there being no less than twenty-six species of Madrepora known from Fiji.” 
“ T saw however at Fiji no Madreporas so large and fine in growth as those of St. Thomas.” ? 
The following is a list of the species obtained :— 
Stylophora palmata, Blainv. Plesiastrxa urvillei, Edw. and H. 
Seriatopora conferta, n. sp. Prionastrxa flecuosa, Dana. 
Galaxea fascicularis, L. " obtusata, Edw. and H. 
Mussa fistulosa, Edw. and H. Acanthastrea irregularis, n. sp. 
Celoria dedalina, Dana. Tathactinia pileiformis, Dana. 
, stricta, Edw. and H. va galeriformis, Dana. 
»  esperi, Edw. and H. Stephanaria stellata, Verrill. 
Hydnophora microcona, Lamk. Dendrophyllia diaphana, Dana. 
Goniastrea cerium, Dana. Madrepora nobilis, Dana. 
Astrea versipora, Dana. 
Plesiastrea indurata, Verrill. 
‘ robusta, Dana. 
2 servata, Ehrg. 
1 Notes by a Naturalist on the Challenger, pp. 306, 307. 
