830 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxx. 



ever, it does not seem possible to refer it to any of the previously- 

 described species. The nearly equal ribs separate it from both the 

 species just mentioned. It is, in addition, separated from J^\ coticinna 

 by its very perforate wall, the wall in that species being- almost solid. 

 I thought the species that I am describing might be F. serrulata Verrill," 

 which Doderlein considers a variety of F. concinna. According to 

 Professor VerrilFs description the specimen from Samboanga can 

 scarcely be his F. sej'ridata^ which he describes as having "principal 

 costjx;"" "and many other finer ones between," and "the [septal] edges 

 irregularly dentate, with small, ver}^ acute, unequal teeth." 1 there- 

 fore think Fungia stwiboangensis will stand as a good species. 



FUNGIA GRANULOSA Klunzinger. 

 Plates LXX and LXXI; Plate LXXIV, fig. 2. 



1879. Fungia grannlom KLrNziN(iKH, Korallenth. Rot. Mecr., Ill, p. 65, pi. vii, 



fig. 3; pi. vin, fig. 3. 

 1902. Fungia granulosa D()1)eui,ein, Korallengat. Fungia, p. 108, pi. xi, fig.s. 1, 



la, lb. 



Description of a specimen in the United States National Museum: 



Corallum large, low, irregularly flexed, the length greater than the 

 width; wall with a few slits near the periphery, otherwise solid; costtv 

 of several sizes, one set decidedl}^ thicker and considera])ly more promi- 

 nent than the others. These largest costte are densely granulated, the 

 granulations present on both the sides and the edges. In places they 

 occur in heaps, and may be prolonged into short, comparativel}" thick 

 spines. The surfaces of the spines minutely granulated. All the costte 

 are granulated. The smaller ones have regularly beaded edges. Toward 

 the center of the disk all costw become obsolete. The largest may be 

 subobsolete, and give place to a large, densel}^ granulate central area, 

 in which some of the granulations may form short s})ines. These gran- 

 ulations are themselves minutely granulate. 



Septa on the periphery, excepting the very smallest, subequal; those 

 corresponding to the large costiB slightly more prominent; on the 

 upper surface decidedly unecpial, usuall}' about 7 smaller septa between 

 two taller and thicker ones. The courses of the septa slightly sinu- 

 ous. Septal margins rather finely dentate, about 14 dentations to 

 i cm., not always of equal size; on the curves of the outer edges they 

 are finer. The tips of the dentations acute or rounded. Septal faces 

 densely and minutely granulate, minutel}' wrinkled near the margin. 

 S3'napticula not visible from above except where the septa have been 

 broken. No tentacular lobes. Columella verv poorl}' developed, 

 almost absent. 



Dimensions. — Length, 157 nun.; breadth, 143 mm,; thickness at 

 inner ends of large septa, 28 mm. 



"Bull. :\Ius. Coiup. Zool., I, 1864, p. 51. 



