HRITISH FOSSIL CORALS 



Corals from the Upper and Lower White Chalk.^ 



MM. Milne-Edwards and Jules Haime noticed and described nine species from these 

 formations. One of these species had been previously described by Mantell and another 

 by Reuss, so that seven species were added to om* British fauna through the industry of 

 the great French Zoophytologists. 



During the last few months I have thoroughly examined the specimens offered to 

 me and those which had been studied by Milne-Edwards and Jules Haime, Lonsdale, and 

 Mantell. I can add ten new species to the list of the Corals from the White Chalk, and 

 five good varieties of formerly known species. It is necessary, also, to admit a species of 

 Mr. Lonsdale's, and to suppress one of MM. Milne-Edwards and Jules Haime's. 



Sectio^^—JPOBOSJ. 

 Family— TURBINOLID^. 



Division CARYOPIITLLACEiE. 



Genus — Caryopiiyllia. 



MM. Milne-Edwards and Jules Haime adopted for a Coral from the Upper Chalk the 

 name Cyaildna Imvigata. They published this name in their " Monog. des Turbinolides" 

 ('Ann. des Sciences Nat.,' 3me serie, vol. ix, p. 290, 1848), and in their 'Monograph of the 

 Corals of the Upper Chalk' (Pal. Soc, 1850). Lonsdale named the same coral Monocarya 

 centralis, Dixon (' Geol. of Sussex,' 1850), and probably Monocarya cultrata also. 



In 1850 D'Orbigny ('Prodr. de Palcont.,' t. ii, p. 275, 1850) gave the Coral the 

 specific name cylindracea, it having become evident that Reuss was the primary disco- 

 verer of the species in 1846. In his ' Kreideformation,' p. 61, pi. xiv, figs. 23 — 30, 

 Reuss gave the name AnthophyUum cylindraceim. The genus of the Coral is evidently 

 Caryopiiyllia in the sense adopted by Charles Stokes in 1828. 



^ The following authors hiive written upon this subject : 



Parkinson, 'Organic Remains of a Former World,' &c., 1811. 



Mantell, 'Geol. of Sussex,' 1822; and 'Trans. Geol. Soc.,' 2nd series, vol. iii, 1829. 



Fleming, 'British Animals,' 1828. 



Phillips, 'lUust. Geol. York,' parti, 1829. 



S. Woodward, 'Syn. Table of Brit. Org. Remains,' 1830. 



R. C. Taylor, in 'Mag. Nat. Hist.,' vol. iii, p. 271, 1830. 



MM. Milne-Edwards and Jules Haime, op. cit. 



Lonsdale, in Dixon's 'Geol. Sussex,' ISJO. 



