332 ZOOPHYTES. 



Subglobose. Corallum with the oririmes 3 to 4 lines distant, inter- 

 stices scarcely elevated ; lamellse denticulate. 



West Indies ? 



This species, figured by Ellis, has the even stellate surface of a 

 Pavonia. The distance of the oririmes above given, is taken from 

 Ellis's figure. 



Mad. siderea, Ellis and Sol., 168, tab. 49, Siderastrcea siderata, Blainv., Man., 370. 



fig. 2. Lesueur's A. siderea (Mem. du Museum, 

 Astreea siderea, Lamk., ii. 417, No. 30. vi. 286, pi. 16, fig. 14), appears to be a 

 , Lamour., Exp. 60, tab. 49, fig. 2 ; different species, and is probably a true 



Encyc., 126. Astroea. 



16. PAVONIA LATISTELLA. Dana. 



Incrustans, planiuscula. Corallum oririmis fere %" remotis, inter stitiis 

 plants; lamettis integris, undulatis. 



Incrusting, nearly flat. Corallum with the oririmes nearly \ an inch 

 distant, interstices flat ; lamellae entire, undulate. 



Port Carte ret, New Ireland. Quoy <$ Gaymard. 



This species, described by Quoy and Gaymard as identical with 

 the Astreea dijfluens of Lamarck, is stated by them to have the flat 

 radiate stars of a Fungia. It is near the S. siderea, but according to 

 the figure given by these authors, the oririmes are more distant, and 

 the interstices are not at all elevated or convex. It occurs in thin 

 incrustations. 



Astreea diffluens, Quoy and Gaymard, Voy. de I'Ast., iv. p. 212, pi. 17, figs. 15, 16 ; 

 the animal here figured appears not to have been expanded. 



17. PAVONIA CLAVUS. (Dana.) 



P. arrecto-cylindrica, 1-3" crassa, interdum obsokte compressa, apice 

 rotundata, interdum lobato-furcata ; poly pis tentaculis obsoletis, Icete 

 virentibus. Corallum oririmis 1-1 "' remotis, et dpice minoribus ; 

 lamellis integris. 



