30 BULLETIN: MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 
CORALS FROM FERNANDO DE NORONHA, BRAZIL. 
Oollected by J. С. Branner. 
1. Gorgonia quercifolia Milne Edwards and Haime. 
9. Gorgomia . . . вр. (?). 
3. Siderastraca stellata Verrill. 
. Fania conferta, Verrill. 
. Mussa sp. related to Mussa verrillii Rathbun. 
. Millepora brasiliensis Verrill. 
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To this list Mr. Ridley’s collecting has added 
7. Astrangia solitaria Lesueur. 
8. Favia ananas Lamk. 
9. Favia deformata M. Edw. and Н. 
Professor P. Martin Duncan, who identified Mr. Ridley's material, 
remarks that “ this little coral fauna has the Abrolhos Reef homotaxis.” ! 
Mr. Rathbun tells me that the species from Fernando are slightly 
different from those of the coast reefs. 
The Gorgonia quercifolia is washed on shore at the time of the high 
tides, or after very rough water. The specimens are found principally 
in the Bahia do Sudoest and upon the point of the island east of Santo 
Antonio. Some of the specimens are three feet in length. They are 
generally more or less bruised by the surf. I was unable after much 
hunting to find these corals growing in place. The fishermen insist that 
they do not grow near the island, that they are torn up from the deep 
sea and brought to the land by the waves. The continued roughness of 
the water and the lack of proper boats upon the island make searching 
for these corals very unsatisfactory work. I believe the Gorgonias grow 
in or near the mouth of the Bahia do Sudoest, but the small jangadas 
of Fernando could not live in that troubled sea. 
The Gorgonia . . . sp. (1) is very large and different from anything 
yet found on the Brazilian coast. But few specimens of this species 
were found. It closely resembles a species figured by Milne Edwards in his 
Histoire Naturelle des Coralliaires on Plate В. 2, fig. 6, as Cricogorgia 
ramea, but which is unmentioned in the text. 
The Mussa, referred to М. Verrillii of Rathbun, can hardly be said to 
be rare, though I found but one living specimen on the whole coast. 
This was found growing in a tide-pool at the base of Morro dos Remedios, 
1 Journ. Linn. Soc. Zoology, 1890, ХХ., р. 570. 
