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Genus Flabellum, Lesson. 



Flahellum Stokesi, Ed. & Haime. 



1848. Flahellum Stokesi, E. & H. Ann. des Sc. Nat. 3' &6i*. t. ix. 

 p. 278, pi. Yiii. lig. 12. 



One dead specimen, probably referable to this species. 

 Tizard Bank, 40 fatli. 



Genus Desmophyllum, Ehrenberg. 

 DesmophyUum^ sp. 



A single small example of this genus taken alive ; it may 

 be a young form of an undescribed species. The coral is 

 attached by a short curved stem and a spreading base. The 

 calice is elliptical in outline, 18 millim. long by 10 millim. 

 wide, and about 19 millim. in height. There are about forty 

 septa ; ten of these are subequal and principal, reaching to 

 the centre of the calice, where tlieir inner, free, lateral margins 

 slightly curve round ; the septa are thin and furnished laterally 

 with minute spines. Between each pair of the larger septa 

 there are three smaller secondary septa which project but a 

 short distance from the wall. The costse of the larger septa 

 project slightly as sharp-edged ribs on the exterior. 



MacclesHeld Bank, 32 fath. 



Genus "Cyathohelta, Ed. & II. 



Cyathohelia axillaris^ Ell. & Sol. 



1786. Madvepora axillaris, Ell. & Sol. Nat. Hist. Zoopli, p. 153, pi. xiii, 

 fig. 5. 



A single specimen, living, was obtained from the Tizard 

 Bank, depth 50 fath. 



Genus LiTHOPHYLLIA, Ed. & H. 



LithophylUa lacrymalis^ Ed. & H. 



1848. CaryophylUa lacrymalis, E. & H. Ann. des Sci. Nat. 3* s^r. t. x. 



p. 319, pi. viii. fig. 1. 

 1857. Lithophxjllia lacrymalis, E. & H. Hist. Nat. des Oorall. vol. ii. 



p. 292. 



A single specimen, dead, attached to a nodule of Litho- 

 thamnion. 



Macclesfield Bank, depth 44 fath. 



