IIG Prof. J. W. Gregory — Fossil Corah from Egypt, etc. 



records as 10-15 mm. wide and 10-20 mm. long; but in his own 

 photograph of P. tesserifera one of the calices is 20 mm. long, and 

 they vary so much in different parts of the colony that P. vasta 

 seems to me only a variety of P. tesserifera with large corallites. 

 But for the sake of precise comparison between the recent and fossil 

 faunas the species may be provisionally accepted. 



SIDERASTEiEA, Blainville, 1830. 

 1. SiDERASTR^^A SAviGNYi, Edwards & Haime, 1850. 



Siderastreea saviij>i>/o)in, Edwards & Haime, 1S50: Ann. Sci. nat., ser. iii, vol. xii, 



p. 140. 

 Siderastrcca savignyana, Klunzinf;er, 1879 : Korallenth. roth. Meer., pt. iii, p. 77. 

 Astrtea savignyana, Edwards & Haime, 1857: Hist. nat. Cor., vol. ii, p. 608. 



Distribution. — Recent : Eed Sea. Fossil, Pleistocene : Egypt 

 (fide Edwards & Haime) ; also at raised beach, east of Jebel Esh, 

 J 2172-2190. 



2. SlDERASTE^A LILACEA, Kluuzingei', 1879. 

 Korallenth. roth. Meer., pt. iii, p. 77, pi. ix, tig. G ; pi. x, tigs. 16, a, h. 

 Distrihution. — Recent: Egypt, near Qosseir (Kluuzinger). Fossil, 

 Pleistocene : lower raised beach, north of Qosseir, J 2122-2138 ; 

 raised beach, east of Jebel Esh, J 2186. 



The specimens, Nos. J 2122-2138, include three nodular coralla, 

 of which the two more perfect ones are 56 by 42 mm. in diameter 

 and 25 mm. high, and 29 by 27 mm. in diameter and 135 mm. high. 



FUNGIA, Lamarck, 1801. 



I have previously called attention to the variability of the Fungite 

 found in the Pleistocene deposits of Egypt. ^ Klunzinger accepts 

 four previously described species as found in the Red Sea, and 

 founded three more. He divided them primarily according to the 

 septal teeth, and his secondary' division is based on the circular or 

 elliptical form of the corallum. The specimens included in the 

 present collection do not seem to me to agree with Klunzinger's 

 scheme, as thej'^ represent a union of characters. But accepting 

 Klunzinger's arrangement for the sake of convenience, the Fuugias 

 in this collection can be named as follows : — 



1. FoNGiA PATELLA (ElHs & Solaudcr), 1786. 



Madrepora patella , Ellis & Solander, 1786 : Nat. Hist. Zooph., pi. xxviii, figs. 1-4. 

 Tiingia patt'llaris, Lamarck, 1801 : Syst. Anim. sans Vert., p. 370. 

 Fioigia patella, Ehinziuger, 1879 : Korallenth. roth. Meer., pt. iii, p. 61, pi. vii, 

 fig. 4 ; pi. \Tii, fig. 2. 



Distrihtition. — Recent. Fossil, Pleistocene : Egypt, R 1308, 

 Brit. Mus. (Gregor}^ op. cit.), Sinai, Lower Terrace, south of 

 Hedemia Bay, L 3-±98. 



2. FuNGiA VALIDA, Vcrrill. (PI. VII, Fig. 13.) 

 Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., No. 1, p. 51. 

 Distribution. — Recent: Indian Ocean (Zanzibar). Fossil, Pleisto- 

 cene : Egypt, Wadi Queh ; Sinai, Lower Terrace, south of Hedemia Bay. 



' Geol. M.\g., Dec. IV, Vol. V (1898), p. 244. 



