520 



ZOOPHYTES. 



thick and at base sometimes 4 lines), rarely coalescing ; polyps in 

 4 to 6 series, greenish. Corallutn with the branchlets subulate, 

 ramuloso-verrucose above, and 4 to 6-winged at summit. 



The Red Sea and East Indies. 



Mad. seriata, Pallas, Zooph., 336. 



, Ellis and Sol., 171, pi. 31, figs. 1, 2. 

 Seriatopora subulata, Lamk., ii. 401 , No. 1. 



, Lamour., Exp.,61, pi. 31, figs. 1,2. 



, Deslongchamps, Encyc., 678. 



, Blainville, Man., 397. 



, Ehrenberg, G. Ixxiii., sp. 2. 



The Seriatopora ocellata, of Ehrenberg, 



was described from a worn specimen in 



the Berlin Museum. The following are 

 the characters given by him : " Tripolli- 

 caris, ramulosa, ramis validis (3'" latis), 

 coalescentibus, ramulis conico-spinescen- 

 tibus, stellis longitudinaliter seriatis, ^'" 

 latis, nee prominulis, sed in linea tumida 

 positis, interstitiis osculisque glabris (an 

 detritis ?)." "Stellce majores quam in S. 

 subulata." 



2. SERIATOPORA LINEATA. (Esper.) Schweigger. 



S. ramis validioribus, basi 3'" crassis, apice tenuiter subulatis et non 

 verrucosis. Corallum apice hexapteris ; cellis leviter fornicatis, J" r 

 latis, 



Branches quite stout, 3 lines thick at base, slenderly subulate at apex, 

 and not verrucose. Corallum six-winged at summit, cells slightly 

 vaulted, J of a line broad. 



Red Sea. Ehrenberg. 



Ehrenberg refers to Esper's figure on plate 19, which represents 

 part of a specimen very much anastomosing, with the summit branch- 

 lets quite slenderly pointed. A specimen very similar to that figured 

 by Esper, is contained in the collections at Peale's Museum, Phila- 

 delphia. The branches are often coalescerit, and not winged at apex; 

 the cells are rather strongly vaulted, and in five or six series ; the 

 branchlets taper to a point from the size of a line at base. Esper 

 states that the branches below are usually about the size of a quill. 



Lithodendrum litoreum (?), Rumph., Am- Seriatopora subulata, var., Lamk., No. 1. 



boyn., tab. 86, fig. 3. Seriatopora lineata, Schweig., Handb.,413. 



Millepora lineata(l), Linn., Ed. xii. 1283. , Ehrenberg, G. Ixxiii., sp. 3. 



, Esper, Fortsetz. 109, tab. 19. 



