42 VERRILL, SYNOPSIS OF 



prominent above the surface of the broad, shallow, central 

 fossette. Diameter .35 of an inch ; height .20. 

 Gaspar Straits. Capt. John Rodgers. 



FLABELLUM, sp. 

 Plate 2, figure 5. 



A single specimen imperfectly preserved, about half an 

 inch high, and about the same in breadth, attached by a 

 large pedicle with a slightly prolonged spinous process at 

 each edge, close to the base. Outline of calicle ellipsoidal, 

 the edges depressed in the line of the longest axis a very 

 little, deep at the center. Relation of the axes as 1 to 2. 

 Exterior with wrinkles or undulations running around it 

 horizontally. 



Locality unknown. Dr. Wm. Stimpson. 



SUBORDER, FUNaACEA, 

 FAMILY, FUNGIBLE. 



FUNGIA PAPILLOSA Verrill, nov. 



Corallum nearly circular, a little broader in the direc- 

 tion of the mouth than across it; elevated at the center, 

 rather thick and massive, the edges evenly rounded, betow 

 nearly flat, densely covered by sharp, moderately elongated, 

 conical spines, which are nearly uniform in size, except at 

 the center, where they are somewhat smaller, but still 

 crowded. Central fosse short, narrow, very deep. Colum- 

 ella rudimentary. Septa thick, sharp-edged, nearly uni- 

 form in width, closely crowded, perpendicular at the inner 

 edge, rounded at summit, beyond which they are finely and 

 sharply serrate ; smaller ones with well marked tentacular 

 teeth. Costae crowded, subequal, densely papillose with 

 conical spines. 



Greater diameter 5.25 inches; lesser .5; thickness at 

 middle 1.5. 



Loo Choo Islands. Dr. Wm. Stimpson. 



