Messrs. Etheridge and Foord on Laceripora cribrosa. 385 



Nataxa, Walk. 



(420.) Nataxa flavifasciay Walk. 

 Nataxa Jlavifascia, Walk. I. c. v, p. 1179. 



Described among Drepanulidge, but undoubtedly a Lasio- 

 campid of the Lirnacodes group. 



[To be continued.] 



XXXV. — Note on Laceripora cribrosa^ Eichwald. Bj 

 Robert Etheridge, Jun., and Arthur H. Foord, F.(x.S. 



We desire to make a correction in the name of the genus to 

 which we assigned Laceripora cribrosa, Eichw.* It was de- 

 scribed in our paper as a Chcetetes] but Prof, H. A. Nicholson, 

 who has recently returned from Esthonia, Russia, has brought 

 a number of specimens of it, sections of which show incon- 

 testablj that it is not a Chcetetes, but a highlj perforated 

 Favositoid Coral. We are of opinion, moreover, that Eich- 

 wald's generic name should be retained. The sections which 

 were prepared to illustrate our paper showed no trace of 

 mural perforations, owing, in a great measure, to the unsatis- 

 factory state of preservation of the only examples available 

 at the time. The accompanying woodcut shows the true 

 characters of this interesting form, as seen in a vertical section. 



In this the unusually large size of the mural pores is apparent, 

 and they impart that peculiar appearance to the cells which 



* This Journal, Nov. 1884. 



