TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



THE GENUS PORITES.— WEST INDIAN AND ATLANTIC FORMS. 



INTRODUCTORY REMARKS /'"^'^ 1 



Historical ^ 



Morphological ^ -^ 



Further Evidence of the Metameric Growth Mentioned in the Fore- 

 going Section -^ 



GEOGRAPHICAL ARRANGEMENT OF THE ATLANTIC AND 

 WEST INDIAN PORITES. 



Group I. "West African Coast and Cape Verde Islands 25 



Group II. Br.a.zils -^ 



Group III. West Indian Islands Proper 30 



Group IV. Western Shores of the Gulf of Mexico 67 



Group V. Florida and Florida Reefs ''^ 



Group VI. Bahamas and Bermuda ' ^ 



Group VII. Specimens from Unknown Atlantic and West Indian 



Localities ''^'^ 



Group VIII. European Fossil Forms ^^"^ 



PORITES FROM NO RECORDED LOCALITY. 



Group IX 11^ 



ANALYTICAL TABLES OF THE RESULTS. 



Page 

 Table I. 



„ II. Summary of the Geological and Geographical Distribution of Porik.< from the 



Atlantic, West Indian, and from the European Tertiary beds 129 



„ III. Analysis and Distribution of the known Variations in Growth-forms of the Pontes 



from these same Regions ^ 



Appendix to Table III ^^"^ 



„ IV. Analysis and Distribution of the more easily definable Types of Calicle 138 



Appendi.x to Table IV ^-^^ 



Note on the blue colour of Individual Coralla '^^' 



