GENERA OF SIMPLE FUNGID CORALS— V AUG HAN. 415 



synapticulate wall, and the septa probably arc somewhat perforate 

 near their upper edoes. But to determine these points positively the 

 type species must be restudied. 



M. Kob}'," in his Monoo-raphie des Polypiers jurassiques de la 

 Suisse, refers six species to this gemis, l)ut oives no data based on the 

 type species. 



GENERA PROBABLY ERRONEOUSLY PLACED IN THE FUNGIDA. 



Coralluin discoid or inw (irilh. a. i)aritsitic irorm in the hat^c); coluiiR'lIu i)ai>illary, no 

 ei)itlieca: 



With pali (before all septa except the last cj'cle). 



Ste2)liunoseris Milne Edwards and Haime 

 Witliont i)ali Psavimoseris Milne Edwards and Hainie 



1. Genus STEPHA^'OSERIS Milne Edwards and Haime. 



1851. Slq)hanu)<('rii^ Milne Edwards and Hal^u:, Arch. Mns. Hist. Nat. Paris, 

 V, p. 127. 



I'laced in the Zop/ioserinm. 



Original generic diagnoaiH. — ''Comllum short, attached to a shell 

 wdiich it completely surrounds; wall naked, stronojy o-nuiulated, 

 scarcely striate below; columella papillary, sliohtly developed; septa 

 nuich elevated, subentire, ver}- granulated laterally, those of the penul- 

 timate cycle more developed than those of the last; pali ])efore all 

 the cycles except the last." 



Type species. — TIete7'ocyathu^ roussaMnus MWwq Edwards and Haime, 

 Ann. Sc. nat., 3d ser., IX, p. 324, pi. x, tig's, i), Ua. 



Distribution . — Recent, Zanzibar 



Reinarhs. — Von Marenzeller^ sa3's, in his Ueber einige Japan- 

 ische Turbinoliden, that "The investigation of the preceding Iletero- 

 (■y<(thu.s [11. japonic as (Verrill) v. Mnvenz. = Stephanoser is japonica 

 Verrill] leads me to make some remarks on the earlier described 

 s])ecies. It shoidd be emphasized that the genus Step/tanoseris, erected 

 b}' Milne Edwards'' iov Iletcrocyat/tas ronssa^anu.s'' because it possesses 

 synapticula, is not valid. It must be assumed that the pointed gran- 

 ules of two neighboring septa fuse and produce the impression of synap- 

 ticula. The whole structure of the corallum, which is reported to be 

 attached to a gastropod shell indicates Heterocgat/i ^^s•. Tenison -Woods *" 

 and Moseley' are of the same opinion, and it is surely only a lapsus 

 cala/ni when the latter says in another place ^z that Ileteropsanunia and 

 Stephanoseris should be united in one genus. Certainly, instead of 



«Schweiz. pal. Gesellsch., Abhand.. XIIl, 1886, pp. 332-338. 



&K. K. Naturhist. Hof-Mnseum, Wien, Ann., Ill, 1888, pp. 17-18. 



cHist. nat. Corall., HI, p. .56. 



«^ Ann. Sci. nat., 3d ser., zool., IX, 1848, p. 324, pi. \, tig. 8. 



''Proc. Linn. See. New South Wales, II, 1878, p. 297. 



/Deep Sea Cor., Challenger Repts., 1880, p. 145. 



!/Idem., p. 197. 



