354 FUNAFUTI ATOLL. 



LEPTASTR^EA TRANSVERSA, Klunzinger. 



Leptastrcea transversa, Klunzinger, Die Korall. Rothen. Meeres, 

 iii., 46, pi. vi., fig. 2. 



Three examples. 



Incrusting, forming irregular convex plates on dead coral. 



CYPHASTR^A DAN.<E, Edwards & Haime. 

 Cyphastrcva dance, Edwards & Haime, Hist. Nat. Corall., ii., p. 



487. 



Astrcea microphthalma, Dana, Zoophytes, U.S. Explor. Exped., 

 p. 217, pi. x., fig. 11. 



One small example, consisting of a thin incrusting living layer 

 growing on a dead crust of the same species, which completely 

 invests some foreign object. 



In the central region of the corallum the calicles are contiguous, 

 the walls being frequently in contact with each other ; near the 

 margin they are separated by narrow spaces about half their own 

 diameter. 



The calicles are from 1*5 to 2 mm. in diameter, they are pro- 

 minent, and have the walls and septa exserted. 



The costae and intercalicine spaces are finely echinulate. The 

 echinulae are from (H5 to 0-2 mm. apart. 



The columella is small, and consists of from three to six sub- 

 spiniform granules. 



Obtained in the passage between the islets of the reef. 



Order MADREPORARIA FUNGIDA. 



FAMILY PLESIOFUNGID^. 



PAVONIA REPENS, Bruggemann. 



Lophoseris repens, Bruggemann, Abhandl. naturw. vereins zu 



Bremen, v., p. 395, pi. vii., fig. 1, a b. 

 Pavonia repens, Klunzinger, Korall. Rothen. Meeres, 1879, p. 75, 



pi. ix., fig. 3. 

 Three specimens. 



Obtained by a native diver in twenty feet of water in the 

 lagoon. 



Colour dull dark brown. 



PAVONIA EXPLANULATA, Lam. 



Pavonia explanulata, Lam., Anim. sans Vert., ii., 1816, p. 244 ; 

 Edwards & Haime, Hist. Nat. Corall., iii., p. 69, pi. D 11, 

 fig. 2. 

 Two small incrusting specimens were obtained in the lagoon. 



