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sides, near the lower edges, the calices fiatten, become larger and 

 more distant, and are either circular or faintly hexagonal in outline. 

 Diameter from 4.-5 to 5 mm.: distance apart, from 0.5 to 2 mm.; 

 the range in the distance apart is the same as on the top, but the 

 calices are more uniformly separated. The costae are distinct, h)w, 

 and equal, with numerous intervening synapticulae. 



The number of septa to a calice is the same for both the top and 

 sides, ranging from 26 to a few over 30. They are relatively tliin; 

 that is, not so thick as the width of the interseptal loculi. except that 

 they are thickened at the wall and the principals are thickened on 

 their inner ends, bearing distinct j^aliform lobes. The primaries and 

 secondaries are subequal, extend to tlie columella, and are paUfer- 

 ous; tertiaries shorter and thinner within the calice; quaternaries, 

 where present, still smaller. The wall is composed of ])eripheral 

 synapticulae. 



Columella only slightly developed. 



The preceding description is based on a single specimen — No. 1 of 

 the table. The principal variation shown by the other specimens is 

 in the distance apart and size of the calices and the number of septa. 

 Jn specimen No. ?> (see pi. 183, fig. 2) the calices are usually about 

 0.75 mm. apart; their diametei- ranges from 3.5 to 5.7 mm., and, as 

 would be expected, the calicular outlines are polygonal; there are 

 in the larger calices as many as 40 septa, the foiu'th cycle, however, 

 in these calices seems ncA^er to be complete, but it is complete in 

 some large calices of the Antiguan specimens. Palar thickenings 

 can be seen on the larger septa; columella poorly developed. 



Localities and geologic occurrence. — Island of Antigua at numerous 

 localities in the Antigua formation, collected by T. W. Vaughan. 



Porto Kico, station 3191, in the Pepino fonnation, 4 miles west of 

 Lares, collected by Robert T. Hill. 



Cuba, station 3467, Canapu River, Alanasas trail, collected by 

 Arthur C. Spencer. Station 7511, between Ocujal and Palma, alti- 

 tude about 500 feet a. t., near Guantanamo, Cuba, collected by O. E. 

 Meinzer. Station 7514, 5 miles east of monument H4 of IT. S. Naval 

 Reservation, Guantanamo, Cuba, altitude 400 feet a. t., collected by 

 O. E. Meinzer. 



Prof. K. Martin, director of the Geologisch Reichs Museum, Leiden, 

 submitted to me for determination some material from Serro 

 Colorado, Arube, that I thought referable to this species.' At the 

 time I studied these specimens I was of the opinion the species 

 belonged to the genus Orhicella. The specimens referred to O. tenuis 

 m the paper cited arc referred in the present paper to Antiguastrea 

 cellvlosa, (Duncan) Vaughan (see p. 407). 



1 Geolog. Reichs Mus. Leiden Samml., ser. 2, vol. 2, p. 33. 



