106 A. E. VerriU — Berniudian and West Indian Reef Corals. 



Plesiastraea Goodei Verrill. 



These Trans., x, i3. 553, pi. Ixvii, fig. 1, 1900. 



In addition to the type, I have seen another fine Bermudian speci- 

 men of this species, in the American Museum, New York, collected 

 on a reef in Bailey Bay, at the depth of about 20 feet, by Mr. R. P. 



Figure 1. — Plesiastvcea Goodei Yer. Part of type. x 4. 



Whitfield, in 1897. It is about 10 inches in diameter, in the form of 

 a somewhat irregular and lobulated hemis})here. 



The same museum has two smaller specimens, in the form of sub- 

 conical masses, 3 to 4 inches in diameter, obtained in the Bahamas 

 by Mr. R. P. Whitfield. These also agree very closely with the 

 type in all essential points, but some of them have the calicles more 

 crowded, smaller, and subangular m some areas. 



Stephanocoenia intersepta (Esper.) Edw. and H. 



Madrepora intersepta Esper, Piianz., Forts., 1, p. 99, pi. Ixxix, 1797. 



Astrea intersepta Lam., Hist. Anim. s. Vert., ii, p. 266, 1816 ; ed. ii, p. 117, 



{non Dana). 

 Stephanocoenia intersepta and S. Miehelini Edw. and Haime, Ann. Sci. Nat., 



X, pp. 300, 301, pi. 7, fig. 1-lb, 1849; Hist. Corall., ii, pp. 265, 266, 1857. 



Gregory, Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc. London, Ii, p. 276, pi. xi, figs. 5a, 5b, 6, 



1895. Vaughan, op. cit., p. 20, 1901. 

 Antillastroia sjjongiformis Duncan, Eevision Mad., p. 108, 1884, (t. Gregory 



from type). 



The recent specimens that I have seen from the West Indies agree 

 better with /S. Miehelini, which is, perhaps, only a massive variety 

 of S. interse2:>ta. 



The American Museum, New York, has a large lobulated mass, 

 over a foot in diameter, from Jamaica. This has six large rounded 

 globes, the largest about inches in diameter, rising from a common 

 basal mass. 



The septa are much exsert, narrow, entire, and with the inner 

 edge perpendicular, leaving a narrow central cup. The columella is 



