November 11, 1904.] 



SCIENCE. 



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The Bouvet Island locality is considered es- 

 pecially interesting because it lies so far south 

 and connects with the Antarctic Madrepo- 

 rarian fauna. One species, Caryophyllia ani- 

 arctica n. sp., was found there. ' 



After the remarks concerning the areas 

 from which the corals were obtained, are: 

 ' List of the stations at which Madreporaria 

 were collected,' for each station the latitude 

 - and longitude, depth, an occasional remark 

 on the character of the bottom, and the spe- 

 cies found there are given ; ' The depth at 

 which the Madreporaria occurred,' the species 

 are listed according to the depth at which 

 they were found ; ' List of the species,' each 

 species named being followed by the appro- 

 priate station numbers. 



Then a detailed consideration of the species 

 is given. The following is a list of the 

 genera, with the number of species referred 

 to each and the names of those described as 

 new: 



Desmophyllurrij 1; Flaiellum, 1, F. delu- 

 dens nov., F. staMle nov., F. chunii nov., F. 

 magnificum nov., F. inconstans nov.; Spheno- 

 trochus, 1, 8. aurantiacus nov.; Deltocyathus, 

 1; Caryophyllia, 5, G. antarctica nov.; Steno- 

 cyathus, 1; Aulocyathus gen. nov., 1, A. ju- 

 venescens, nov.; Ceratotrochus, 1, C. delicatus 

 nov.; Stephanotrochus, 2, 8. campaniformis 

 nov., 8. explanans nov.; Lophohelia, 1; Am- 

 phihelia, 1; 8olenosmilia, 1; Parasmilia, 1; 

 Bathyactis, 1; Balanophyllia, 1; Dendro- 

 phyllia, 1 ; , Goen,opsaminia,, 1 ; Anisopsammia 

 gen. nov., 1. 



The new genus Aulocyathus resembles 

 8chizocyathus Pourtales in external appear- 

 ance; each of the foiir of von Marenzeller's 

 specimens was attached to the inner side of a 

 fragment of the same species. It is a member 

 of Duncan's Trochocyathoida and because of 

 the absence of pali belongs in a group with 

 Ceratotrochus. 



The genus Anisopsammia is proposed for 

 the Amphihelia. (subsequently, ? 8tereopsam- 

 mia) rostrata of Pourtales. This genus is 

 separated from Coenopsammia by having the 

 calices on one side of the corallum, facing 

 one way. I consider the genus of very doubt- 



ful value, being inclined to the opinion of 

 Pourtales that his Dendrophyllia profunda 

 and ? 8tereopsammia rostrata are congeneric. 

 One of von Marenzeller's generic names 

 must be changed. Professor Verrill* has 

 shown that Madrepora oculata Linn. ^ 4 m- 

 phelia or Amphihelia oculata of nearly all 

 authors from Milne Edwards and Haime to 

 the present time, must become the type spe- 

 cies of the Linnaean Madrepora. This is an 

 extremely inconvenient change, but unless we 

 throw over entirely our rules of nomenclature 

 it must be made. 



The validity of a few of the species is doubt- 

 ful. 



The five plates that illustrate the paper are 

 very good. 



This is an excellent paper and the criticisms 

 are of a minor nature. It supplements the 

 work that Alcock has been doing on the deep- 

 sea fauna of the Indian Ocean and on that 

 around the Dutch East Indies. I have prac- 

 tically completed a report on the deep-sea 

 corals dredged by the United States Fish 

 Commission around the Hawaiian Islands and 

 the illustrations are far advanced. The Ha- 

 waiian fauna, although it contains quite a 

 number of new things, bears very considerable 

 resemblance to that of the East Indies and 

 the Indian Ocean. The Fish Commission 

 collections will make an important addition 

 to the Indo-Pacific faunas. 



There are in our United States National 

 Museum considerable collections of deep-sea 

 corals dredged off the western coast of Amer- 

 ica. These should be studied in connection 

 with the general subject of Indo-Pacific deep- 

 sea faunas, to which Moseley, Alcock and von 

 Marenzeller have already made contributions 

 of so much value. It is my hope that before 

 a great while I shall be able to present a suit- 

 able report on these portions of our unstudied 

 collections. 



T. Wayland Vaughan. 

 Smithsonian Institution, 

 Washington, D. C, 

 October 19, 1904. 



■ Trans. Conn. Acad. Sci., Vol. XI., pp. 110-113, 



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