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Fromentel, in his l Introduction a l'etude des Polypiers 

 Fossiles ' *, follows Edwards and Haime in referring the 

 Stenoporoz to Ck&tetes, with a note of interrogation ; indeed 

 this reference is adopted by Milne-Edwards even in his most 

 extended and latest work on this subject, ' Histoire naturelle 

 des Coralliaires ' f. 



Prof, de Koninck has, to us, made a most inexplicable 

 reference J in placing S. tasmaniensis and S. ovata as syno- 

 nyms of Monticulipora tumida, Phill. (Ckcetetes tumidus 

 auctt). They have no specific connection with this charac- 

 teristic European Carboniferous species. 



In the Cambridge ' Catalogue of Cambrian and Silurian 

 Fossils ' §, the late Mr. J. W. Salter adopted Stenopora 

 nearly in the same sense in which it was employed by Prof. 

 M'Coy. F ' y 



In 1874 a paper by one of the present writers (" Descrip- 

 tions of Species of Ckcetetes from the Lower Silurian Rocks 

 of North America) " was published ||, in which the relations of 

 Stenopora to other genera were touched on. One very impor- 

 tant point is here brought forward, viz. that in all the Ame- 

 rican Devonian and Silurian species of Monticulipora exa- 

 mined by the author the outer walls of the corallites were 

 exposed by fracture, as in Stenopora, although in every other 

 respect the characters were those usually ascribed to Ckcetetes. 

 The confusion which has arisen by the indiscriminate use of 

 the terms Favosites, Ckcetetes, Monticulipora, and Stenopora 

 by various authors is again commented on by the same 

 writer in his ' Report upon the Palaeontology of the Province 

 of Ontario ' jf. The difficulty formerly experienced in sepa- 

 rating Cko3tetes from Stenopora is here alluded to ; and the 

 author considers that the forms referred to the latter by 

 palaeontologists who have written since Lonsdale cannot be 

 separated from Ckcetetes. 



In a paper "On the Affinities of the Anthozoa Tabulata"**, 

 Dr. G. Lindstrom has proposed the elimination of Stenopora 

 from amongst the Tabulate corals, and the placing of it with 

 the Polyzoa. 



The last reference we have to make in the history of this 

 interesting genus is an important one. In his recent work, 

 " Recherches sur les Fossiles paleozoi'ques de la Nouvelle- 



* Paris, 1858-61, pp. 274, 275. t Vol. iii. 1860, p. 272. 



\ Nouvelle Recherches sur les Animaux foss. &c. pt. i. 1872, p. 143. 



§ Cambridge, 1873, pp. 29, 108. 



|| Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. 1874. xxx. pp. 499-515. 



If Toronto, 1874, pt. i. p. 60, 1875, pt. 2, p. 29. 



* # Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1876, xviii. p. 9. 



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