300 ZOOPHYTES. 



Island of Vanicoro, Pacific Ocean. Quay and Gaymard. 



This species is remarkable for the very large teeth of the lamellae, 

 resembling the preceding, united with regular striations below. The 

 specimen examined was two and a half inches in diameter, and seven 

 lines in thickness. The tentacles as figured by Quoy and Gaymard, 

 are over an inch long. 



Fungia crassitentaculata, Quoy and Gay- , Lamk., 2d ed. ii. 374, No. 11. 



mard, Voy. de 1'Ast., iv. 182, pi. 14, , Leuckart, op. cit. p. 47. 



figs. 3, 4. , Cuvier, Reg. An., 1837, pi. 83, fig. 1. 



II. Oblongo-ellipticee. 



14. FUNGIA PAUMOTENSIS. (Stutchbury.) 



F. pumila, bene elliptica (2": 1^"), convexiuscula, subtus plana, aut 

 undulata. Corallum lamellis cequalibus, confertissimis, fere integris, 

 vel subtilissime denticulatis ; subtus leviter striatum et subtiliter spinu- 

 losum, in media fere leve. 



Small, neatly elliptic (2 inches by li), somewhat convex; below flat 

 or undulate. Corallum with equal even lamella?, much crowded, 

 nearly entire or very finely denticulate ; below finely striate and 

 very minutely spinulous, nearly smooth at middle. 



Plate 19, fig. 8, animal, drawn by J. P. Couthouy ; 8 a, outline of 

 corallum; 9, supposed to be corallum of a young individual. 



The Paumotu Islands, Pacific Ocean. Exp. Exp. 



The even nearly entire and crowded lamellae and elliptic shape, 

 are the distinguishing characters of this species. There are twenty- 

 two to twenty-five lamella? in a breadth of an inch. With the size 

 above stated (the usual adult size), the thickness is about one-eighth 

 of an inch at the margin, and nearly half an inch at centre. Young 

 individuals of this species were found attached by Mr. Stutchbury, 

 and also by my associate Dr. C. Pickering of the Expedition. The 

 adult coralla usually have a scar below, a fourth of an inch in dia- 

 meter, indicating the size of the pedicel at the time it was detached. 



Fungia paumotensis, Stutchbury, Linn. Trans, xvi. tab. 32, figs. 6 a, 6 b. The 

 figures are good. 



