NO. 1101. GENERA OF SIMPLE FUNGID CORALS— VAVGHAN. 383 



LoBACTis Verrill, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 1, 1864, p. 52. 



TypespecieH. — Fungia de)itlgera Leuckart, Do Zoopli. Corall. et spec. 

 Gen. Fiingia, pp. 48-49, pi. iii, tigs. 1, 2, cf. Doderlcin, Korallengat. 

 Fungia, pp. 91-97. 



There was no original description; only a type species was cited. 

 This group is composed of somewhat elongate, Hat species, in which 

 the tentacular lobes of the septa are greatly developed. 



Ctenactis, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., I, 1864, p. 51. 



Type species. — Madrtpora echinata Pallas, P]lench. Zooph., p. 284; 

 Fungia echinata. Doderlein, Korallengat. Fungia, pp. 101-105, pi. x, 

 tigs. 1-5. 



No diagnosis of the genus was published. It was established for 

 the very large, elongate, Fungige., the largest known, in which the 

 septal margins are strongly dentate, the dentations resembling, as the 

 name implies, the teeth of a comb. 



Haliglossa (part) Ehrenberg, Akad. Wissensch. Berlin, Al)handl., 

 1832, p. 274, 1834. 



Original generic diagnosis. — [Fungids] compound (polystomatous), 

 base expanded, stolonifero'us, extended in two directly opposite direc- 

 tions (its oblong form recalling a ionguQ — Manic in x liherse). 



To this genus he refers tive species: 



1. Madrepora echinata Pallas. 



2. Fungia liinacina \A\m^\Q^— JSLadrepora pileus Ellis and Solander. 



3. Haliglossa i7iterrupta¥A\VQnhQvg=Madre2)ora p> ileus of Linnteus 

 and Y?i\\^'s= Fu7igus pileus ohlongits, Seba, III, pi. cxi, fig. 5. 



4. Haliglossa foliosa ¥A\v&nhQYg = Madrepora j)ileus Linna?us and 

 Pallas, Seba, III, pi. cxr, tig. 3. 



5. Haliglossa stellaris Ehrenberg =J/«6?r(?/>or« p)ileus var. Esper, 



pi. LXXIII. 



No. 1 was considered by Leuckart to be wrongly identitied, and was 

 named Fungia ehrenbergi by him." Professor Doderlein, in his Die 

 Korallengattung Fungia,^ places Leuckart Fungia ehrenhergi in the 

 synonymy of Fungia echinata (Pallas). Milne Edwards and Haime 

 refer the four others ^ to the synonymy of Herpetolitha liinax (Esper) 

 Eschscholtz, 1825. 



Therefore the genus Haliglossa contained two genera, one part of 

 Avhich belongs to Fungia Lamarck, 1801, the other to Hetpetolitha 

 Eschscholtz, 1825,'^ and consequently must lapse. 



«De Zooph. corrall. et gen. Fungia, 1841, p. ,52, pi. ii. 



ftSenckenberg. Naturfor. Gesellsch., Al>han<ll., XXVII, 1902, p. 101. 



cAm. Sci. nat., 3d sen, Zool., XV, p. 94. 



''Eschscholtz's Herpetolitha (Isis, XVI, 1825, p. 746), originally contained two 

 species, Fungia limacina and Fungia talpa, of Lamarck. Milne Edwards and Haime, 

 in 1849 (Comptes Rend., XXIX, p. 71), restricted Herpetolitha to the first mentioned 

 species (citing Madrepora pileus Ellis and Solander, pi. xlv) and proposed the genus 

 Cryptabacia for the second. 



