1036 MISS R. HARRISON AND PROF. S. J. HICKSON ON 



and Haime's groups to place it, for here in a single calice is a 

 combination of the diagnostic characters of the two svib-families : 

 pali are present before some and not before other septa of the 

 same cycle. 



This specimen is considerably larger than Dvincan's original 

 example from the same locality, and difiers from his figure of 

 the type specimen in having the septa in the first two cycles 

 m.vich exsert ; but he calls attention to the variability of the 

 pali, the size and the number of the septa, as being features 

 of the individual corallites. The similarity in other details is 

 close. 



Family F u N G 1 1 d .E, 



FuNGiA PATELLA Ellis & Solander [16]., 



Three specimens from the Persian Gulf which are identical 

 with Doderlein's figure [10, pi. i.] of the Oycloseris-form of 

 F. patella, "VVayland Vanghan's figure [40, pis. xxvii. & xxyiii.l of 

 J^. patella, and Gardiner's fig\\re [18, pL. xix,] of Cycloseris hexa- 

 gonalis. They afford f urtlier evideace of the wide distribution 

 of the species, and for the justificxition of absorbing the genus 

 Cycloseris in the genus Fungia. 



Locality. Two specimens from Shaikh Shuaib Island, Persia,!! 

 Gulf. Bottom, rock.. Depth 10 fms,. Exact locality of third 

 specimen not recorded. 



Family Eupsammiidjg. 

 Heteropsammia aphrodes Alcock [1], 



Eight specimens each with a single calice< The inflated spongy 

 exsert edges of the septa of the first two cycles are well developed. 

 Locality. Telegrapli Cable, Persian Gulf. Depth 40 fms. 



Dendrophyllia sp.. ? de Blainville [5]. (PL LYII. fig. 7.) 

 Colony bushy, springing from an encrusting base on which are 

 numerous small individuals. Budding lateral or basal. Polyps 

 occasionally joined by horizontal bars, but in every case svich bars 

 are inhabited by a small commensal worm, and have probably 

 been formed in connexion with this parasite. Polyps tend to 

 assume a vertical position, but one polyp which appears to 

 arise from a horizontal bar is directed downwards. Size of the 

 polyps very variable j some scarcely rising from the encrusting 

 base ; some attaining to a height of 25 mm. Calice varies 

 between 2x2 mm. in the youngest to 7 x 6 mm. in the oldest 

 individuals, Costte distinct from base upwards, equal, granular, 

 not exsert, correspond in number to the septa. Septa in 

 six systems of four cycles with a few representatives of the 

 fifth cycle, all irregular. Some septa of the lower cycles are 

 grouped together round that of the preceding cycle in the typical 

 dendrophylliid manner, while others extend to the columella, and 

 are equal in size to those of preceding cycles. All septa are 



