384 PROCEEDINdS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxviii. 



Fainih' AGARICIIDJ^] Vcrrill. 



1849. Lopliofti'i'iiui: IVTiiAE IOdwakds and Haime, Comptes rena. Aciad. Sci., Paris, 



XXIX, p. 72. 

 1865. Loplioseridx Vekrill, Proc. Essex Inst., IV, p. 146. 

 1870. Agaricidtr Verkill, Trans. Conn. Acad. Sci., I, p. 542. 

 1884. Loplioseridx, Duncan, Jour. Linn. Soc, Zool., London, XVIII, p. 146. I 



Dlagrw.H/H of fani II y. — Simple or colonial Funoids, with solid septa '^ j 

 and .solid walls. Synapticula present; dissepiments present or absent. 



Three genera are placed in this famil}-, TrochoxefU M. Edwards 

 and Haime, P(il»<}Hei'lx Duncan and Bdth.yactix ^losele}". Fmujiacya- 

 tlniK^ though probaV)ly not a Fungid, is given here, because Moseley 

 thought that it might be closely related to Bathyadls. 



TABLE OF DIFFERENTIAL CHARACTERS OK THE GENERA. 



L ('oralluni trochoid or turbinate, j)edicellate. 

 Columella papillary, no epitheca. 



1. Trodioseris Milne Edwards and Haime. 



Columella rudimentary, complete epitheca 2. Palxoserls Duncan. 



II. Corallum discoid, free, not attached in the young stages. 

 Columella variable in development, no epitheca. 



Septa in deltas, distant, wall thin .3. Bathi/adis Moseley. 



[Columella none, no epitheca. 



Septal ends not uniting 4. FmigiacjiaUiua Sars] . '' 



1. Genus TROCHOSERIS Milne Edwards and Haime. 



1849. Trurhoserh, Milne Edwards and IIaime, Comptes rend. Acad., Paris, 

 XXIX, p. 72. 



Genus placed l)y its authors in their " Lop hose/' in;e,'^ which have the 

 plateau without epitheca and echinulations, and have nonperforate 

 tissues. 



(>ri(jinal generic diagnosis. — Simple species, trochoid and tixed. 



Type species. — Anthophylluni distortuni Michelin, Iconog. Zoophy- 

 tol., p. 149, pi. XLiii, tigs. 8a, Sb. 



Remarks. — The description published by Milne Edwards and Haime 

 in their Recherches sur les Polypiers'' is practically the same as the 

 one in the Histoire naturelle des Coralliaires.'^ The .salient characters 

 are well covered in both. The following is the description given in 

 the .second work: ''The corallum is simple, trochoid or cylindrical and 

 attached. The wall is naked and shows throughout its height tine 

 costal striw. Columella papillaiy. Septa very numerous and laterally 

 strongly granulate." 



« I think that the young septa in some species of Agaricia may occasionally be per- 

 forated . 



''The reason fur inserting this genus here will appear under the description of 

 rxilJnjdcliK. Moseley thought that they might ))e the same. I do not see how it is 

 possible, and think that FiiiKjidci/atltiis is one of the Turbinolid corals. 



''Ann. Sci. nat, od ser., Zool., XV, 1851, p. 118. 



''Vol. Ill, p. 57. 



