406 ZOOPHYTES. 



bud interstitially, like the Porites, and other massive species with late- 

 ral gemmation. They have but sparingly the transverse dissepiments 

 between the lamellse of the corallum, which belong to the Astraeae. 



The typical species of this genus is included with Caryophyllia by 

 Lamarck, with Astraa by Blainville, and with Cladocora by Ehren- 

 berg, from all of which groups it is separated by its long salient polyps. 

 Ehrenberg states that Boccone in his Museo di Fisica (Venice, 1694), 

 called it Astroites. Quoy and Gaymard suggested the name Astroidea. 



ASTROITIS CAL1CULARIS. (BoCCOHC.) 



A. ghmerata, incrustans, animalibus purpureis vel aurantiacis. Co- 

 rallum tubulis 2J'" latis, contiguis et interdum spumose connexis ; cettis 

 excavatis, orliculatis et scepe angulatis, fundo latis et prominulis. 



Glomerate, incrusting, animals purple or orange. Corallum with the 

 tubes 2J lines broad, contiguous, and sometimes with cellular inter- 

 stices ; cells excavate, circular or angular, bottom of cell broad, and 

 somewhat prominent. 



Mediterranean ; Bay of Algesiras, off Algiers, and elsewhere. 



Mad. calicularis, Cavolini, Pol., Mar. i. tab. Caryophyllia calycularis, Lamk., ii. 348, 



3, figs. 1-5 ; the polyps of this coral are No. 2. 



figured by this author, who describes them , Lamouroux, Encyc., 169. 



as of a purple colour, and remarks upon , Milne Edwards, Cuvier's Reg. Anim. 



their great beauty. 1837, pi. 83, fig. 2. 

 , Delle Chiaje, Anim. senza Vert, di Anthophyttum ca/ycw&zre,Schweig.,H.4I7 . 



Nap., ii. pi. 17, fig. 7. Astrcea calycularis, Blainv., Man., 367. 



, Pallas, Zooph., 314, No. 186. Cladocora calycularis, Ehrenb., G. Ii. sp. 2. 



-, Esper, i. p. 117, tab. 16, figs. 1,2; Astroidea lutea, Quoy and Gaymard, Ann. 



Esper figures a specimen with cells one- des Sciences Naturelles, x. pi. 9 B ; and 



fourth to half an inch in diameter. Astrtza calycularis, Voyage de 1'Astro- 



Astroites calycularis, Walch, Naturf., 49, labe, iv. 200, pi. 15, figs. 10-23 includ- 



No. 8. ing figures of the polyps, of an orange 



, Boccone, Museo di Fisica, i. pi. 5. colour. 



ASTROITIS VIRIDIS. (Quoy $ Gaymard.) Dana. 

 A. subglobosa, polypis valde exsertis, griseis, tentaculis viridibus. Co- 



