Verrill, Kotes on EacUata. 539 



, Bathycyathus Chilensis Edw. and Hnime. 



Annales des Sci. nal.. 3^ ser., ix, p. 294. PI. % fig. 5, 1848; CoraUiaires, ii, p. 23, 1857. 



Coralliim with the calicle subelliptical ; the ratio of the axes as 

 100 : 166; the summits of the small axis a little reentrant and more 

 elevated than those of the large axis, which are rounded. Columella 

 oblong, reduced. Septa very close, very little thickened externally 

 and becoming very thin ^Wthin, with the faces covered with numerous, 

 very fine "grains, disposed in series parallel to the edge. Pali very 

 thin, covered with extremely prominent grains, with the internal edge 

 a little flexuous. — (Edw. and Haime). 



Height, •40"""; larger axis of the calicle, -25; smaUer, -15; depth 

 of fossette, '13. 



Coast of Chili, — Gay. 



Family, Turbinolid^ Edw. and Haime (restricted). 



TurMnoUncE Edw. and Haime, Ann. des Sci. nat, ix, p. 235; Coraliiaries, ii, p. 95. 



1857. 



The genera referred to this group are distingnised by the entire 

 absence of pali, and generally by the very open appearance of the 

 chambers between the septa. It includes two groups, or sub-families, 

 already referred to on page 536 : the TurbhKiUnce, in which there is 

 no epitheca and the calicles are generally cii-cular ; and jFlahellince, in 

 which the wall is complete y covered by a pelicle-Uke epitheca, and 

 in which the calicles are usually elliptical. 



Desmophyllum Ehrenberg. 

 Desmophyllum Ehrenberg, Corall. des rothen Meeres, p. 75, 1834; Edw. and Haime; 

 Ann. des Sci. nat., is, p. 252, 1848; CoraUiaires, ii, p. 76, 1857. 



Corallum simple, elevated, attached by an encrusting base. Wall 

 naked, usually smooth below and costate or crested near the summit. 

 Calicle very deep at center, without a columella. Septa broad, much 

 exsert, generally curved outward. 



This genus includes several living species from the West Indies ; 

 Mediterranean ; Atlantic coasts of Europe ; Japan ; and the following 

 from South America. It also occurs in the Miocene of southern 

 Europe. 



Desmophyllum Cumingii Edw. and miime. 



Desmophyllum Cumingii Edw. and Haime, Ann. des Sci. nat., 3^ ser., i.x, p. 254, PI. 

 7, fig. 11, 1848; Coraliiaries, ii, p 77, 1857. 



This species differs from B. cristagalli in this that it is much less 

 elongated, and fixed by a large and scarcely curved base. Ratio of 



