TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



THE GENUS PORITES.— WEST INDIAN AND ATLANTIC FORMS. 



INTRODUCTORY REMARKS page 1 



Historical 3 



Morphological 12 



Further Evidence of the Metameric Growth Mentioned in the Fore- 

 going Section 20 



GEOGRAPHICAL ARRANGEMENT OF THE ATLANTIC AND 

 WEST INDIAN PORITES. 



Group I. West African Coast and Cape Verde Islands 25 



Group II. Brazils 29 



Group III. West Indian Islands Proper 30 



Group IV. Western Shores of the Gulf of Mexico 67 



Group V. Florida and Florida Reefs 71 



Group VI. Bahamas and Bermuda 76 



Group VII. Specimens from Unknown Atlantic and West Indian 



Localities 80 



Group VIII. European Fossil Forms 107 



PORITES FROM NO RECORDED LOCALITY. 



Group IX 112 



ANALYTICAL TABLES OF THE RESULTS. 



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Table I. 



,, II. Summary of the Geological and Geographical Distribution of Pmites from the 



Atlantic, West Indian, and from the European Tertiary beds 129 



„ III. Analysis and Distribution of the known Variations in Growth-forms of the Pontes 



from these same Regions 1 30 



Appendix to Table III 137 



„ IV. Analysis and Distribution of the more easily definable Types of Calicle 138 



Appendix to Table IV 143 



Note on the blue colour of Individual Coralla 143 



