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III. DESCRIPTIONS OF SPECIES. 



The following 25 species are included in this account : the specimens 

 described are in the Indian Museum. 



I have here to record my best thanks to Mr. Jeffrey Bell, M.A., for his 

 kindness in comparing duplicate specimens of the Desmophyllum, Solenosmilia, 

 and Lophohelia here described, with certain types in his charge in the British 

 Museum. 



Caryophyllia communis, Seguenza, Moseley. 

 Caryophyllia ambrosia, n. sp. 

 Caryopliyllia scillaeomorpha, A. A. 

 CaryophyJlia ephyala, A. A. 

 Caryophyllia paradoxus, n. sp. 

 Acantbocyathus grayi, Edw. & H. 

 Trochocyathus rotulus, n. sp. 

 Trochocyathus sp. 

 Deltocyathus andamanicus, n. sp. 

 Tliecocyatlms cincticulatus, n. sp. 

 Stephanotrochus nitens, A. A. 

 Stephanotrochus oldhami, A. A. 

 Desmophyllum vitrettm, n. sp. 

 Flabellum paripavoninum, A. A. 

 Fkbellum laciniatum, Philippi. 

 Flabellum laciniatum ? var. nov. 

 Flabellum japonieum, Moseley. 

 Rhizotrochus crateriformis, A. A. 

 Lophohelia investigatoris, n. sp. 

 Amphihelia moresbyi, n. sp. 

 Cyathobelia axillaris, Ell. & Sol. 

 Cyathohelia formosa, n. sp. 

 Solenosmilia jeffreyi, n. sp. 

 JBathyactis symmetrica, Moseley. 

 Bathyactis stepJiana, A. A. 



Family TUEBINOLID^E, Edw. & H., Martin Duncan. 



Sub-family Garyophyllma, Edw. & H. 



i. CARYOPHYLLIA, Lamk., Stokes, Martin Duncan. 



l. Caryophyllia communis (Seguenza) Moseley. 



Ceratocyathiix communis, Seguenza, Mem. Accad. Sci. Torino, ser. 2, vol. xxi. 1864, p. 547, pi. v. figs. 7, 7a-c; 

 and pi. xv. figs. 10, 11. 



Caryophyllia communis, Moseley, 'Challenger' Deep-Sea Madreporaria, p. 135, pi. i. figs. 4, 5 : Ponrtalcs, Bull. 

 Mus. Comp. Zool. vol. vi. p. 100, pi. i. figs. 12, 13 : A. Agaasiz, Three Cruises of the ' Blake ' II. p. 148, fig. 462 : 

 Jourdan, Zoanthaires ' Hirondolle' (Monaco, 1895J, p. 12, pi. i. figs. 7, 8. 



Eour specimens from off the North Maldive Atoll, 210 fms., and a large 

 specimen from off the Travancore coast, 4)10 fms., are identical with specimens 



