428 PROF. P. M. DUNCAN ON DEEP-SEA [May 16, 



Quite distinct from this species is the Viverra meyaspila (Blyth, 

 Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, xxxi. 1863, p. 331) from Pegu and the Ma- 

 layan peninsula. It grows to nearly twice the size of V. tangalunga, 

 with which it agrees only in having the black median dorsal streak 

 continued along the tail, and not interrupted by the light rings, which 

 are incomplete and few in number. In an adult female from Pinang 

 (Cantor's V. tangalunga) the body measures three feet from the tip 

 of the nose to the root of the tail, the tail 17 inches. The black 

 spots on the body are large, very distinct, not ocellated, and arranged 

 in five longitudinal series. This peculiar coloration is already suffi- 

 ciently distinct in a very young individual, whose total length is only 

 19| inches. 



As this species has never been figured, or acknowledged by natu- 

 ralists, I have thought it better to draw their attention to it by the 

 accompanying figure (Plate XXXVII.) drawn from our specimens 

 from Pinang. 



2. Notices of some Deep-sea and Littoral Corals from the 

 Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean, Indian, New-Zealand, Per- 

 sian Gulf, and Japanese &c. Seas. By Prof. P. Martin 

 Duncan, F.R.S., Pres. Geol. Soc. 



[Eeceived May 16, 1876.] 



(Plates XXXVIII.-XLL). 



The corals which are described in this communication are nearly 

 all remarkable forms. They are not the usual reef-building species, 

 nor are they found in very deep seas : but, coming from remote dis- 

 tricts, they present a most varied generic assemblage. 



It has been necessary to establish several new genera in order to 

 classify the species, and also to introduce into the recent coral fauna 

 two genera, one hitherto considered to be represented only in the 

 Cretaceous, and the other in the Miocene formation ; but lately the 

 last has been found in the Caribbean by Agassiz and Pourtales. 



Three of the species closely resemble fossil forms ; and they are 

 Conocyathus zealandice, Deltocyathus orientalis, and Antillia lons- 

 daleia, variety. 



The first of these belongs to a genus which is a most marked one, 

 and very well differentiated. It is allied to Conocyathus sulcatus, 

 D'Orb., from the Miocene or Oligocene of Mayence. Deltocyathus 

 orientalis is closely allied to Deltocyathus it aliens (of the Italian 

 Miocene) ; and Antillia lonsdaleia, var., differs very slightly from 

 the form from the San-Domingan Miocene, described by me in the 

 'Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society,' vol. xx., in an essay 

 on the fossil corals of the West Indies. This is of course a most 

 important species ; for its being found large and well developed in 

 the Japanese seas implies that the Caribbean was once open to the 

 west. The other evidence of this former connexion between the 



