1898.] TURBIKOLID AKD OCUIimOID COEALS. 999 



There is one small specimen, which corresponds closely to this 

 species, which has been excellently described by Klunzinger. The 

 surface of the ccenenchyma is covered by low rough spines. The 

 septa and columella closely resemble those of 8. digitata, but are 

 somewhat rougher. At the ends of the branches, between two of 

 the lobes, the upper wall of the calice is often more projecting and 

 somewhat pointed, while generally it is low and vaulted. The 

 specimen is rather more massive with broader and thicker 

 branches than those in the British Museum. 



Funafuti ; outer reef. • 



8. Sttlophora palmata Blainville. 



Stylopliora palmata, Blainville, Diet, des Sci. Nat. t. Ix. p. 360 

 (1830) ; Man. p. 384. 



Stylopliora palmata, Klunzinger, Die Korallthiere des Eothen 

 Meeres, Th. ii. p. 62, pi. vii. fig. 6, pi. viii. fig. 11. 



There are two specimens, which cannot be separated from this 

 species, though neither show any trace of the anastomosis of their 

 branches, which, however, can scarcely be a feature of specific value. 

 The one specimen is a branch 8 cm. high, which at the base is 

 compressed and 3 cm. in breadth ; above it divides up into a 

 number of very compressed lobes, 2 to 5 em. in breadth by about 

 8 mm. thick. On the sides of the branches there are seven coral- 

 lites in 1 cm.; the primary septa are distinct, with generally rather 

 rough sides and spinulous edges. The columella cannot usually be 

 distinguished except in the apical calices, where it is smooth and 

 sfcyliform. 



The second specimen (dredged from 30 fathoms) closely re- 

 sembles the first ; the calices of its base are very small, and 

 the ccenenchyma between is strongly developed. When first 

 obtained it was of a green colour, while the species is generally 

 light brown. 



Funafuti ; outer reef and 30 fathoms. 



9. Sttlophoea lobata, n. sp. (Plate LXII. fig. 2.) 



Corallum consisting of low clumps of thick, often somewhat 

 compressed branches, dividing dichotomously above into low, broad, 

 blunt lobes. 



The upper margin of the calice is in places prominent and may 

 be acute or vaulted, but usually the whole edge of the calice pro- 

 jects in a ring-shaped form. The ccenenchyma, except at the base 

 of the colony, is not nearly so well developed as in most species ; its 

 surface is everywhere covered by low spines, arranged in striae 

 around the calices. The calices are 1-1-3 mm. in diameter and 

 there are generally four in a space of 5 mm. The terminal calices 

 of the branches are not crowded and have the ccenenchyma almost 

 equally well developed between them. 



The primary septa are distinct, broad, rough lamellae, which fuse 

 low down in the calice with the broad, low columella, which is 



