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Text-fig. 40. 
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Costal stages in P. centralis Mantell. 
Type-specimen, B.M. no. 5462. X 2. 
3. ParasMILIA Firront Edwards & Haime. (Text-fig. 41.) 
Parasmilia fittoni Edwards & Haime, 1850, “ British Fossil 
Corals,” Mon. Pal. Soc. p. 50, pl. 1x. fig. 2 (non figs. 2 a, 2 6). 
Type-specimen, B.M. no. 48412. 
In their Monograph on British Fossil Corals, Edwards & 
Haime state that Parasmilia fittont is in the collections of the 
Geological Society, of the Geological Survey, and of the Museum at 
Paris. This species 1s not mentioned in Blake’s and Sherborn’s 
list of types in the collection of the Geological Society ; nor do the 
Geological Survey possess the types; while at Paris there is the 
specimen figured on pl. ix. figs. 2a, 2b; but) mot tig: 25) the 
British Museum specimen No. 48412 agrees with Edwards & 
Haime’s description and exactly corresponds with fig. 2 (reversed 
in printing so that the figure is a mirror-reflection of the specimen) 
and evidently is one of Edwards & Haime’s two types. It follows 
then that there are two syntypes of this species, B.M. no. 48412, 
pl. ix. fig. 2 of Edwards & Haime, and the Paris specimen figured 
on pl. ix. figs. 2 a, 2 6; nor is it certain without examination of 
