MOPSELLAILZE. 



surface of the branches. The axis solid, calcareous, not becoming 

 spongy, longitudinally grooved. Buds and branches from the swollen 

 joints. Bark hard, smooth. Polype-cells convex, with a thick, 

 rounded, raised edge and sunken centre. 



Melithaea, sp v Milne-Edw. fy Haime, Corall i. p. 200. 

 Melitodes, sp., Verrill, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool 1864, p. 38. 



* Branches virgate, subparattel, inosculating. 



72. Melitella elongata. B.M. 



Coral fan-shaped ; joints cylindrical, elongate ; internodes swollen ; 

 orange; branches virgate, subparallel, much divided; brauchlets 

 slender, compressed, sometimes inosculating ; joints of the branch- 

 lets very long, slender, compressed. 



? Isis ochracea (ramorum summitates), Esper, Pflanz. t. 4 A. f. 2, 4, 5 



(not 3). 

 Melitella elongata, Gray, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 485,; Verrill, Bull. Mus. 



Comp. Zool. p. 38. 



Hob. Singapore. 



This species is very like Melitcea oclimcea, but the cells are much 

 more numerous and crowded, and the axis is solid and calcareous. 



Esper's figures somewhat represent this species ; but the cells are 

 not sufficiently crowded and numerous in figs. 4 & 5. 



The lateral groove is distinctly marked on the outer side, and 

 more or less indistinctly so on the uppersides of the branches and 

 branchlets. 



73. Melitella flabellata. B.M. 



Coral fan-shaped, ovate, longer than broad; joints slender, in the 

 middle thicker. 



Hal. ? 



74. Melitella atrorubens. B.M. 



Coral much branched, dichotomous, fan-like ; branches radial ; 

 branchlets cylindrical. Bark dark, uniform deep brown red. Polype- 

 cells on the upperside and edges of the branchlets, with a hard, 

 slightly raised, circular margin. 



Melitea ochracea (part.), Lamx. MSS. 

 Hab. India. From M. Lamouroux's Collection. 



75. Melitella linearis. B.M. 



Coral very much branched, on a plane ; branchlets very slender, 

 filiform, of a uniform size, coalescing at each joint, leaving oblong, 

 elongate interspaces; articulations large, swollen, red. Axis white. 

 Cells rather prominent, very few, rather far apart, one or two series 

 on each side of the stem ? 



Ha b. ? A fragment only. 



Coral fan-shaped, white ; branches parallel, linear, very slender, 



