82 MADREPORARIA. 
There are two specimens: one, a, rises almost symmetrically, mulberry-shaped, from a 
slightly constricted base of attachment; the other, b, has been distorted by having had to 
struggle with foreign organisms. The calicles in both cases are alike. 
The deep calicles with steep membranous walls are interesting, and differentiate it entirely 
rom P. Ellice Islands 10, which Mr. Gardiner suggested might be a related form. 
a, b. Zool. Dept. 86. 12. 9. 317-318. 
QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS. 
58. Porites Queen Charlotte Islands qy1, (DP. Carlotte prima.) 
[ Vanikoro, coll. Quoy and Gaimard ; ? Paris Museum. ] 
Syn. Porites conglomerata Quoy and Gaimard (non Esper), Voyage de |’Astrolabe, Zooph. iv. (1833) 
p. 249 ; Atlas, pl. xviii. figs. 6-8. 
? Porites Gaimardi M.-E. & H., Les Coralliaires, iii. (1860) p. 179. 
Description.—The corallum forms rounded masses, The specimen figured had the upper- 
most surface killed down, and the sides were expanding above a stalk-like neck. 
The calicles are very small (?)* crowded, polygonal or very often hexagonal, not very 
deep, and with rough borders. Some of the pali rise to the level of the walls—the section 
shows a close network. 
Each polyp is bordered with a beautiful reddish violet, the centre spotted with black. 
We gather from the figures—for the original specimen appears to be lost—that the walls 
were thin and zigzag. 
Referring to my notes, I find that there is a specimen (Z 188a) labelled “ P. Gaimardi” 
Quoy and Gaimard, Vanikoro, 1829,” but it is quite different from this, and as it has a 
still older label with “ Nowvelle Irlande, astrée en boule” wpon it, it is here described under the 
heading P. New Ireland 1. No. Z 1888, is also labelled “ P. Gaimardi,” but its locality is not 
recorded, and it is different from either of the above. 
* « Extrémement petites” ought hardly to be translated ‘very small,” for we do not know what 
standard of comparison the authors were using. We can hardly believe that their standard was that 
supplied by a wide survey of members of this genus. The terms were quite as likely employed with 
reference to coral polyps in general. 
