CORALS FROM MURRAY, COCOS-KEELING, AND FANNING ISLANDS. 213 



Plate 36.— Favia speciosa {Dsns). page of the 



DESCRIPTION 



Fit;. I. Calices, X2, of Dana's type of Astma ipeciosa, No. 37, U. S. Nat. Mus 103 



Figs. 2, 2a. Two views of a hitherto unidentified specimen collected by the U. S. Expl. Exped., No. 34, 



U. S. Nat. Mus., intermediate in characters between A. speciosa Dana and J. puteolina Dana. 



Fig. 2, corallum viewed from above, natural size; fig. za, summit calices, X2 103 



Fig. 3. Calices, X2, of Dana's type of Astma puteolina. No. 33, U. S. Nat. Mus 103 



Figs. 4, 4a. Calices, X2, of Dana's type o( Astnea pandanus. No. 36, U. S. Nat. Mus. Fig. 4, summit 



calices; fig. ^a, calices on the side, near lower edge of corallum. General view of corallum on 



plate 37, fig. I 103 



Plate 37. — Fa-jia speciosa (Dana). 



Fig. I. General view, natural size, of Dana's type of Astraa pandanus. No. 36, U. S. Nat. Mus. Enlarged 



views of calices on plate 36, figs. 4 and \a loj 



Fig. 2. Dana's type of Astrtza jragilis. No. 24, U. S. Nat. Mus., calices, X2 103 



Fig. 3. Specimen from Murray Island, calices, X2 103 



Figs 4, 4a. Specimen from Cocos-Keeling Islands. Fig. 4, cross-section of corallites; fig. ^a, longitudinal 



section of corallites, each X 2 103 



Plate 38. — Favia pallida (Dana). 



Fig. I. Dana's type of Aslraa pallida, No. 30, U. S. Nat. Mus., calices, X2 105 



Fig. 2. Favia pallida, facies I, from Murray Island, calices, X2 106 



Fig. 3. Favia pallida, facies 2, from Murray Island, calices, X6 107 



Fig. 4. Favia pallida, facies 3, from Murray Island, calices, X2 107 



Fig. 5. Favia pallida, facies 4, from Murray Island, calices, X2 107 



Fig. 6. Favia pallida, facies 5, from Murray Island, calices, X2 107 



Fig. 7. Favia pallida^ facies 6, from Murray Island, calices, X2 107 



Plate 39. 



Figs, i, la. Favia darusNtxuW, type, No. 32, U. S. Nat. Mus. Fig. i, general view, natural size; fig. la, 



calices, X2 108 



Figs. 2, la, ib. Favia malthaii, new species. Fig. 2, general view, natural size; fig. 2a, calices, X2; fig. zb, 



view to show character of septal margins, X4 109 



Plate 40. — Favites abdita (Ellis and Solander). 



Fig. I. Dana's type of Astraa robusta, No. 63, U. S. Nat. Mus., general view of part of specimen, natural 

 size 



Fig. 2. Dana's type o{ Astraa flexuosa. No. 27, U. S. Nat. Mus., general view, natural size 



Fig. 3. Specimen identified by Dana as Astma jusco-viridis. No. 28, U. S. Nat. Mus., general view, natural 

 size 



Fig. 4. Specimen from Murray Island, calices, X2. Septa not so crowded as in specimen represented by 

 fig- S- 



109 

 109 



109 



109 



Fig. 5. Specimen from Murray Island, calices, X2. Septa crowded 109 



Plate 41. 



Figs, i, 2, 3. Favites halicora (Ehrenberg). Calices from three specimens from Murray Island, to show 



variation, each view X2 1 10 



Figs. 4, 5. Favites virens (Dana). Fig. 4, calices, X2, of Dana's type of Astraa virens. No. 26, U. S. Nat. 



Mus. Fig. S, calices, X2, of a specimen from Murray Island Ill 



Figs. 6, 6a. Favites melicerum (Ehrenberg). Two views of a worn specimen from Cocos-Keeling Islands; 



fig. 6, natural size; fig. 6a, calices, X4 112 



Plate 42. 



Figs, i, 2. Favites peniagona (Esper). Fig. i, reproduction of Esper's enlarged view of the calices, scale 2 1/2 

 natural size. Fig. 2, calices, X2 1/2, of a specimen from French Somaliland. The essential 

 identity is obvious 112 



Figs. 3, 3a, 4, 4a. Goniastrea pectinala (Ehrenberg). Figs. 3, 3a, two views of Dana's type o( Astraa favulus. 

 No. 66, U. S. Nat. Mus.; fig. 3, natural size; fig. 3a, calices, X2. Figs. 4, 4a, two views of 

 Dana's typeof///(ra'a/a£iij-/c//a, No. 73, U.S. Nat. Mus.; fig. 4, natural size; fig. 4a, calices, X2. . 114 



