lOO PAPERS FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF MARINE BIOLOGY. 



Regarding the name musicalis, which Milne Edwards and Haime apphed to 

 the species and attribute with a query to Linnaeus, it is not known, and probably 

 never will be known, what species Linnaeus meant. Because of this uncertainty 

 the name clavus proposed by Dana, concerning which there is no doubt, should be 

 applied. 



This species is represented in the U. S. National Museum by a suite of over 

 20 specimens, in addition to Dana's types. They are mostly from the southern 

 and central Philippines. 



Distribution. — Ceylon; Maldives; Torres Straits; southern and central Philip- 

 pines; Fiji Islands. Not reported from the east coast of Africa or east of the Fiji 

 Islands. 



Family FAVIID^ Gregory. 

 Genus FA VIA Oken. 



1815. Favia Oken, Lehrb. Naturg., Th. 3, Abth. i, p. 67. 



1857. Favia Milne Edwards and Haime, Hist. nat. Corall, vol. 2, p. 426. 



1902. Favia Verrill, Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts and Sci., vol. 11, p. 88. 



Type species : Madrepora fragum Esper. 



Milne Edwards and Haime and Verrill have gone into the history of this generic 

 name so extensively that further discussion is almost superfluous. 



Matthai in his "Revision of the recent colonial Astraeidae possessing distinct 

 corallites," refers to Favia 25 species, which I have regrouped in the following table. 

 The numbers are those used by Matthai and indicate his order of treating the species. 

 An asterisk means that the species is represented in the U. S. National Museum 

 collection. Matthai's names are given in the first column, the revised names in 

 the second column. 



Calices subcircvlar, asexual reproduction normally by inter calicular gemmation. Genus 

 Orbicella. 



12. Favia versipora (Lam.) *Orbicella versipora (Lam.). 



13. wakayana (Gardiner) * curta Dana. 



14. solidior (M. Edw. and H.) (Perhaps only a variant of 0. 



curta (Dana)) * solidior (M. Edw. and H.). 



Calices elliptical, subequal fission (except in F. pallida). Genus Favia. 



1. Favia favus (Forskal) *Favia favus (Forskal). 



4. clouei (Valenciennes) * speciosa (Dana). 



9. laxa (Klunzinger) * laxa (Klz.). 



25. rotulosa (Ell. and Sol.) rotulosa (Ell. and .Sol.). 



jj. sp? = rotumana (Gardiner) * rotumana (Gardiner). 



21. fragum (Esper) * fragum (Esper). 



8. ananas (Ell. and Sol.) peronii (M. Edw. and H.). 



1 1. acropora (Linn.) * stelligera (Dana). 



2. doreyensis M. Edw. and H.j „ij^ ^^^^^y 



3. nululensis Gardmer J 



6. berthoUeti (Val.) * vaIenciennesii«(M. Edw. and H.) 



"See note on p. loi, and description, pp. 105-108, for accounts of fission in this species. 

 'This species is the genotype of Phymastrea M. Edw. and H. I doubt the mode of junction of the coral- 

 lites being of generic value, and, except discarding Valenciennes's nomen nudum, agree with Matthai. 



Calices polygonal, solid separating walls, subequal fission, without spines on upper part 

 of septal edges. Genus Goniastrea. 



16. Favia hombroni (Rousseau)*1 (Probably should be referred to Gani- 



24. sp? = tenella (Gardiner)/ I astrea. 



