THE ANNvVLS 



AND 



MAGAZLNE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



fFOURTH SERIES.] 



" perlitora sparpit* museum. 



Naiades, ct circiun vitreos conHiditv fontes: 

 PoUico virgineo tt-tiiTos hi(! cariiiti' (lores: 

 Floribus et pii-tum. di\te, replete eaniHtrum. 

 At vos, o NyinpliBB Craterides, ite sub undas; 

 Ite, recurvato variata eorallia trunco 

 Vellite rouscosis e nipibus, et mihi conchas 

 Ferte, Deae pelagi, et pingui conchylia succo." 



!?V. Farthenii Oiannettatii Eel. I. 



No. 103. JULY 1876. 



I. — On the Affinities of the Anthozoa Tahulata. 

 By Dr. Gustav Lindstrom*. 



Since Milne-Edwards and Haime first laid the foundations of 

 their classification of the Anthozoa in their great works, a 

 large amount of material has been amassed on various hands, 

 and necessitates on neai-er investigation a revision and, as an 

 unavoidable attendant of the progress of science, a rearrange- 

 ment of the various parts of the system. But amongst all 

 the orders of Anthozoa none seems to stand so much in need 

 of revision as that of the Tabulate Corals ; and the purport of 

 the present paper is to demonstrate that this order is composed 

 of genera belonging to quite different classes of tlie animal 

 kingdom, and having no zoological affinities with one another ; 

 whence it results that the order Anthozoa Tabulata must 

 be broken up and its constituent genera distributed amongst 

 other classes and orders previously known. Having examined 

 almost all genera belonging to the Tabulate Corals, I cannot but 

 concur in the opinion, which Prof. Verrill f, as far as I know, 



* Published in the Proceedinfrs of the Swodi.«ih Academy of Sciences, 

 1873, and translated, with amendments and addition.s, by the author- 

 Communicated by Dr. 11. AUeyne Nicholson. 



t " On the Zoological Affinities of the Tabulate Corals," Proc. Amer. 

 Assoc. Adv. Sci. I'^O?, p. loO ; "Reviewof Corals and Polyps of W. Coa.st 

 of America," Trans. Conn. Acad. vol. i. 18()8-70, p. 518; "Affinities of 

 Palffiozoic Tabulate Corals with existing- Species," Silliman's Journ. 1872, 

 p. 187. See also W, S. Kent, Ann. & iMag. Nat. Hist. 1870, vi. p. 384. 



Ann. (fe Mag. N. Hist. Ser.4, FoZ. xviii. 1 



