56 BRITISH FOSSIL CORALS. 
late been considered by M. Alcide d’Orbigny as deserving to be elevated to the rank of a 
genus, and has been named by that author Discopsammia ;' but M. d’Orbigny has not 
pomted out any new characters in addition to those on which this separation was primitively 
established in our Monograph, and consequently we see no reason for altering the 
classification previously adopted. 
Stephanophyllia Bowerbankii is found in the lower chalk near Dover, and does not 
appear to differ from some corals which one of us” has lately met with in a bed of chlorited 
chalk at Orcher, near le Havre. The specimens here described belong to the collections of 
Mr. Bowerbank, Mr. D. Sharpe, and the Geological Society. 
! Note sur les Polypiers Fossiles, p. 10, 1849. 
2M. Jules Haime. 
