Corals from the China Sea. 453 



rosette-like bunches of short tubiform calices with twelve 

 septa; apical calices a little prominent, 1"5 milliin. wide; 

 under surface with few immersed calices. 

 Tizard Bank, 5 fath. 



Madrepora^ sp. n. 



Near to M. effusa^ Dana. 

 Macclesfield "Bank, 26i fat!i. 



Madrepora plantaqinea^ Lam. 



1836. Madrepora planfuginea, Lam. Hist. Nat. des Anim. sans Vert^br. 

 t. ii. p. 447. 



Tizard Bank, 6 fath. 



Madrepora valida, Dana. 



1848. Madrepora valida, Daiia, Expl. Exp. Zooph. p. 461, pi. xxxv. 

 tig. 1. 



Tizard Bank, 6 fath. 



Madrepora paxiUigera^ Dana. 



1848. Madrepora paxilligera, Daua, Expl. Exp. Zoopb. p. 452, pi. xxiv. 

 fig. 1. 



Nam-Yit, Tizard, 1 fath. 



Madrepora pyramidalis, Klunz. 



1879. Madrepora pyramidalis, Klunz. Die Koralltb. des roth. Meeres, 

 Tb. ii. p. 12, pi. i'. tig. 2 &c. 



Tizard and Macclesfield Banks, 2 fath. ; also var. depressa. 

 Kl. 



Madrepora seriata^ Ehrenberg, sp. 



1834. Heteropora seriata, Ebr. Beit. z. Kenntn. der Corallenth. des rotb. 

 Meeres, p. 113. 



Tizard Bank, 2 fath. 



Madrepora tenuis^ Dana. 

 1848. Madrepora tenuis, Dana, Expl. Exp. Zoopb. p. 451. 

 Tizard Bank, 1 fath. 



Madrepora nasuta, Dana. 

 tasuta, 



Tizard Bank, 5 fath. 



1848. Madrepora nasuta, Dana, Expl. Exp. Zooph. p. 463, pi. xxxiv. 

 fig. 2. 



