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but -without label. As most of his dredgings were made off the west coast of 

 Florida, this may be considered the most probable locality. It was evidently 

 dead when dredged, and possibly may be a fossil from some submarine bed ; to 

 this, however, the perfect condition of the most delicate parts and the entire 

 absence of foreign matter in the interseptal chambers seem to present olyection. 



Parasmilia fecunda Lindstr. 



{Cmlosmilia fecunda PoURT.) 



This somewhat puzzling form can well remain for the present in the genus 

 Parasmilia, as Mr. Lindstrcim proposes. Except for the buds, it resembles 

 very closely some of the cretaceous forms, as Parasmilia centralis or serpentina. 

 Professor Duncan and Mr. Studer have proposed new generic names for it. In 

 point of date Mr. Studer's name, Anomocora, will precede Blastosmilia Dune, 

 if it is adopted. 



Station No. 32. Lat. 23° 52' N., Long. 88° 5' ^Y. 95 fms. 

 " " 45. Lat. 25° 33' N., Long. 84° 21' W. 101 fms. 



(Sigsbee.) Off Havana. 175 fms. 



Station No. 24. Lat. 23° 2' N., Long. 83° 13' W. 342 fms. 



Parasmilia arbuscula Pourt. 



(Ccenosmilia arbuscula PoUET.) 



(Sigsbee.) Off Havana. 80 fms. 



Station No. 45. Lat. 25° 33' N., Long. 84° 21' W. 101 fms. 

 (Sigsbee.) Off Havana. 175 fms. 

 « Off Havana. 242 fms. 



Solenosmilia variabilis Dunc. 



Plate I. Figs. 1, 2, 3. 



Professor Duncan's figures do not render the remarkable process of fissiparity 

 of the terminal calicles of this coral, of which two stages are represented on PI. I. 

 Station No. 2. Off Havana. 805 fms. 



Colangia simplex Pourt. spec. nov. 



Plate I. Fiffs. 18. 18 a. 



Corallum cylindrical, rising from an expanded base (perhaps connecting with 

 other corallites). Epitheca thick, rising above the border of the calicle, hiding 

 all trace of costae, Calicle circular, fossa deep. Septa ratlier thick, but little 

 granulated ; three cycles and a few septa of the fourth. The primaries 

 rounded, entire, but little exsert, .somewhat wavy in the lower i)art ; second- 

 aries lower, having the internal border divided into three or four strong, blunt 

 teeth, and having a stout paliform lobe slightly elevated above the columella. 

 Tertiaries lobed like the secondaries. Columella well developed, formed of fifteen 

 or more stout papilla?, arranged in three rows, of which the middle one is best 



