On Curah from the China Sea. 443 



Eyes almost in contact, the ui)por slightly in advance of the 

 lower, which is on the lip ; their major diameter is more than 

 one sixth tlie head-length. Un the coloured side only one 

 nostril, in the form of a rather long slender tube situated in 

 front of the lower eye ; on the blind side two, the anterior of 

 which is a short tube. 



^louth small, its angle nearer to the tip of the snout than 

 to the gill-opening. locales ctenoid on both sides. Two 

 lateral lines on the coloured side, which branch and anasto- 

 mose on the head; the upper, which ends immediately behind 

 the vertical through the middle of the body, is separated from 

 the lower, ■which is continuous to the base of the caudal, by 

 ten rows of scales. No lateral line on the blind side. One 

 ventral tin united to the anal by a broad membrane. The 

 highest [middle] dorsal and anal rays considerably exceed 

 the length of the snout. 



Colours in life : — Left side uniform sepia-brown. 



Length nearly o inches. Two specimens. 



Off Ganjam coast, 38 fathoms ; bottom sand. 



These two species are closely allied, both belonging to the 

 Bubgeuus Trul/a, Kaup. 



Lin. — Report on the Corals from the Tizard and Macclesfield 

 Banks, China Sea. By P. W. Bassett-Smith, Surgeon 

 RN. 



[Concluded from p. 374.] 



Section Madreporaria Fungi da. 



Genus SlDERASTR^JiA, Blainville. 



Siderastroia ?, sp. n. 



A large, massive, incrusting specimen about 22 centim. in 

 diameter, the upper surface uneven, with blunt rounded 

 ridges, thickly covered with subpolygonal or compressed 

 calices, from 3 to 6 millim. in width. VValls thin, but only 

 visible here and there ; they are apparently thick at the sur- 

 face. The septa frum 22 to '^0 in nunjber, very tliin, plate- 

 like, their sides minutely spined, the margins subeiitire or 

 very minutely serrate, their upper edges above the calice-walls 

 sometimes confluent with adjoining septa. Apparently no 

 columella, but numerous dissepiments. Calices deep ; the 

 larger septa reaching nearly to the centre. 



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