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terr. paleozoiques, p. 146), owing to some temporary misunderstanding the name was suppressed 

 in favour of Alvcopora, the Alveoporse of de Blainville and Dana being called " Porarcea." In 

 the same year, however, the authors published a monograph of the Poritidae (Ann. d. Sci. 

 naturelles, Zool. (3)-xvi. p. 21) in which they restored the name. The genus, though closely 

 associated with Porites, was said to have certain structural resemblances ( " quelques rapports 

 de forme " ) with the Madrepores. The authors described thirty-two species. Some of Dana's 

 were considered to be synonyms of others, but the majority were accepted. In addition, they 

 included two of Forskal's Eed Sea Madrepores, two other Porites (complanata and angulata) 

 of Lamarck, the former as M. complanata, the latter as M. fhrygiana, Esper, while the 

 original species of Quoy and Gaimard (ver7'ucosa) is separated as M. quoyi from Montipora 

 verrucosa, Lamarck, and a new species from the Eed Sea, found in the Paris Museum, is- 

 described as M, muUildbata. 



;N"o change was made in the genus or in the number of species in the third volume of 

 ' Les Coralliaires ' (1860). 



In the year 1866, Professor Verrill, in a synopsis of the Polyps and Corals of the North 

 Pacific Exploring Expedition (Proc. Essex Inst., v. p. 17) described several new species under 

 the old generic name Montipora. Following Milne-Edwards and Haime, he placed the genus 

 with Porites under the family name Poritidse. In 1869, however ('Notes on the Eadiata in 

 the Mus. Yale College,' Tr. Conn. Acad., i. p. 501), he went back to Dana's classification 

 and placed the genus under the Madreporidse, while stUl rejecting Dana's generic name 

 Manopora. 



In 1875 (Appendix to Dana's 'Corals and Coral Islands') he revised the list of the 

 corals given by Dana in his ' Zoophytes,' rejecting two of Dana's identifications, and making 

 new species of the types affected. 



In 1877-9, Brviggemann published several systematic papers on Corals, and added new 

 types. He seems never to have quite satisfied himself as to the affinities of the genus. In 

 two papers which appeared (in 1879) after his death (1878) it is variously placed. In the 

 ' Corals of Eodriguez ' (Phil. Tr., clxviii. p. 569) the Montiporidee follow the Madreporidfe 

 and Poritidse. While, in the Journal d. Mus. Godeffroy, v. p. 201 ('tjber KoraUen der 

 Insel Ponape ') Montipora occurs with Porites, Turlinaria, &c., under the Madreporidas. 



In 1878, Prof. Studer (MB. Ak. Berlin, p. 524), in describing the corals collected during 

 the voyage of the ' Gazelle,' classed Montipora under the Poritidse. But in 1880, the same 

 author, in describing corals from Singapore (Mitth. Naturf. Ges. Bern, p. 22), adopted 

 Dana's classification so far as to class Montipora with Madrepora under the same family 

 Madreporidse. He added one new species Monticulosa (v. M. hispida). . 



In 1879 appeared Dr. Klunzinger's Monograph of the Corals of the Eed Sea. Next in 

 importance to the genus Madrepora (represented by twenty-four species) comes the genus 

 Montipora, represented by eleven species, three of which are described as new, the remaining 

 being older species of Porskal, Lamarck, Ehrenberg, and Dana. The genus is placed with 

 Madrepora under the Madreporidse (the first family of the suborder Madreporacea), the 



