Corah from the China Sea. 367 



Genus Flaiu:llum, Lesson. 



FlaheUum Stokesi, Ed. & Haime. 



1848. FlaheUum Stohei^i, E. & H. Ann. dos Sc. Nat. 3* s^r. t. ix. 

 p. 278, pi. viii. tig. 12. 



One dead specimen, probably referable to this species. 

 Tizard Bank, 40 falli. 



Genus Desmophyllum, Ehrenberg. 

 Desmophylhim^ sp. 



A single small example of this genus taken alive ; it may 

 be a young form of an undescribed species. The coral is 

 attached by a short curved stem and a spreading base. The 

 calice is elliptical in outline, 18 millim. long by 10 millim. 

 wide, and about 19 millim. in height. There arc about forty 

 septa ; ten of these arc subcqual and principal, reaching to 

 the centre of the calice, where their inner, free, lateral margins 

 slightly curve round ; the septa are thin and furnislied laterally 

 with minute spines. Between each pair of the larger septa 

 there are three smaller secondary septa which project but a 

 short distance from the wall. The costfe of the larger septa 

 project slightly as sharp-edged ribs on tlie exterior. 



MacclesHeld Bank, 32 fatli. 



Genus Cyathohelia, Ed. & II. 



Cyathohelia axillarisj Ell. & Sol. 



1786. Madrepora axillaris, Ell. & Sol. Nat. Hist. Zooph. p. 153, pi. xiii. 

 fig. 5. 



A single specimen, living, was obtained from the Tizard 

 Bank, depth 50 fath. 



Genus Lithophyllia, Ed. & H. 



LithophylUa laaymaUs, Ed. & H. 



1848. CaryophyUia lacrymalis, E. & H. Ann. des Sci. Nat. 3* s6r. t. x. 



p. 319, pi. viii. %. 1. 

 1857. Lithophyllia lacrymalis, E. & H. Hist. Nat. des Corall. vol. ii. 



p. 292. 



A single specimen, dead, attached to a nodule of Litho- 

 thamnion. 



Macclesfield Bank, depth 44 fath. 



