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PAPERS FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF MARINE BIOLOGY. 



perhaps in the Hght of larger collections. Although Bernard did excellent work on 

 the morphology of the coral skeleton (in fact his work is of fundamental import- 

 ance), he seems never to have been able to group his specimens into what is under- 

 stood by systematists as species. His species are merely morphologic variations, 

 and many of the names he proposed will not persist in the literature. 



Dr. Mayer collected no specimens of Turbinaria at Murray Island, nor did 

 Dr. Wood Jones collect any in the Cocos-Keeling group. There are in the U. S. 

 National Museum one good specimen of T. crater and a suite of three specimens of 

 T. peltata from Torres Straits. As Bernard has described these species in detail 

 and published illustrations of them, they need only be mentioned here. 



Genus MONTIPORA Quoy and Gaimard. 



1833. Montipora Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. de I' Astrolabe, Zool., vol. 4, p. 247. 



1847. Montipora Bernard, Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Cat. Madreporaria, vol. 3, the genus Montipora, 

 pp. 1-166, 177-184. 



Type species: Montipora verrucosa Quoy and Gaimard {non Lamarck) = Monti- 

 pora foveolata (Dana). As Dana's type of Manopora foveolata appears not to be 

 in the U. S. National Museum, I can not redescribe and figure it, as I had desired. 



