114 PAPERS FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF MARINE BIOLOGY. 



to the first species of tlie };enus as treated in his paper, the name is invahd, as it 

 represents serial misidentification of Forskal's Madrepora solida, which is a species 

 of Porites according to von Marenzeller. Dana apphed the name Astrcea parvistella 

 in 1846 to the same species = Com /aj/r^fl parvistflla (Dana) Verrill, 1872. Dana's 

 name, therefore, is the proper one, if the species is vahd. The type, from tlie Fiji 

 Islands, is in the U. S. National Museum, No. 67, and is represented by plate 44, 

 figures 2, 2(2. 



Verrill's cotypes of Goniastrca aspera from Loo Choo Islands are in the U. S. 

 National Museum, Nos. 402 and 403. I should like to redescribe them in this con- 

 nection, but can not do so at present. However, I will say that I doubt G. aspera 

 really being Goniastrea. Besides having roughly and irregularly dentate septa, the 

 intercorallite walls are often slit, making a combination of characters suggesting 

 affinity with the Caloria group of Mceandra. 



Goniastrea parvistella (Dana). 

 Plate 44, figures 2, la, Dana's type of Astrtra parvistella. 

 1846. Astraa parvistrlla Dana, U. S. Expl. Exped., Zooph., p. 244, plate 13, figs. 6, 6a-6c. 

 1914. Goniastrea solida Matthai, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 2d scr., Zoo!., vol. 17, p. 117, plate 10, fig. l; 

 plate 28, figs. 3, 4; plate 31, fig. i; plate 33, fig. 4; plate 38, fig 3. 



Notes have already been made on this species. 



Distribution. — Red Sea; Indian Ocean; eastward in the Pacific to the Fiji 

 Islands, whence Dana's type came. 



Goniastrea retiformis (Lam.). 

 Plate 15, figure 24, and plate 16, figure 25, of Dr. Mayer's article. 

 1816. Astrea retiformis Lamarck, Hist. nat. Anim. sans Vert, vol. 2. p. 265. 



1914. Goniastrea retiformis Matthai, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 2d ser., Zool., vol. 17, p. 119, plate 10, 

 fig. 3; plate 31, figs. 2-5; plates 33, fig. 3; plate 38, figs. 2, 4. 



Astraa cerium Dana (original specimens Nos. 64 and 69, U. S. Nat. Mus.) 

 belongs in the synonymy of this species. No. 64 seems to be Dana's type. Prob- 

 ably Astrtea eximia Dana akso belongs in the same synonymy; but, although I have 

 repeatedly searched for it, his type seems not to be in the Museum and therefore 

 can not be discussed. 



As this species is one of the best-known Pacific and Indian Ocean corals, 

 redescription seems unnecessary. 



Stations, Murray Island. — Southeast reef, line I : 



500-550 feet from shore; water 6 inches deep; bottom sand and mud (plate i6, fig. 25, Dr. 



Mayer's article). 

 1,200 feet from shore, water 9 inches deep. 



1,250 feet from shore, water 16 inches deep (plate 15, fig. 24, Dr. Mayer's article). 

 1,600 feet from shore, water 10 inches deep. 



Distribution. — Red Sea; the Indian Ocean; the Great Barrier Reef; Amboina; 

 Philippine Islands; Fiji Islands; Wake Island, etc. How far eastward it ranges 

 from Fiji Islands is not known. 



Goniastrea pectinata (Ehrenberg). 

 Plate 42, figures 3, 3a, Dana's types af Astrrsa favulus; figures 4, 4a, Dana's type of .'/j/rrra favistella; plate 43, 

 figure I, Dana's type of Astrira sinuosa; figures 2, 3, 3a, 4, 5, 5a, specimens from Murray Island. 

 Also plate 15, figures 21, 22, 23, of Dr. Mayer's article. 

 1834. Astraa pectinata Ehrenberg, Corallenth. Roth. Meer., p. 96. 

 1846. Astrira favistella Dana, U. S. Expl. Exped., Zooph., p. 241, plate 13, figs. 2, 2a-2d. 

 1846. Astrtra sinuosa Dana, U. S. Expl. Exped., Zooph., p. 243, plate 13, figs. 5, 53-51:. 

 1879. Goniastrea pectinata Klunzinger, Korall. Roth. Meer., pt. 3, p 34, plate 4, fig. 6. 

 1879. Goniastritafavus Klunzinger, Korall. Roth. Meer., pt. 3, p. 35, plate 4, fig. 4, plate 10, fig. 7. 

 1914. Goniastrea pectinata (pars) Matthai, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 2d ser., Zool., vol. 17, p. 120, {non 

 plate 28, fig. 6, nee plate 37, fig. l). 

 Non: 



1907. Goniastrca pectinata Vaughan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 32, p. 257. 



