104 History of Palaeozoic Actinology in Australia. 



by the republication of it in the Proceedings of the Royal 

 Society of Tasmania for 1851, i with facsimiles of the 

 plates. A useful and analytical review of what had been 

 done for the palaeozoic corals of Australia up to the time 

 of publication of their work (1851) was accomplished by 

 Professor Milne-Edwards and M. Jules Haime, in the 

 "Monographic des Polypiers Fossiles des Terrains Palce- 

 zoiques."^ These authors consider the coral doubtfuUy 

 regarded by Lonsdale as Favosites Gothlandica (Fougt), to 

 be F. Goldfussi (D'Orbigny). They follow Professor Dana in 

 placing Stenopora crinita (Lonsdale) in the genus Ghcetetes 

 (Fischer), and make the same reference but more doubtfully 

 in the case of the other Australian species, S. ovata (Lons- 

 dale), S. informis (Lonsdale), and S. Tasmaniensis (Lonsdale). 

 Another coral described by Lonsdale in Strzelecki's work 

 on New South Wales as Amplexus arundinaceus, is con- 

 sidered by Edwards and Haime to be indeterminable. 

 They lastly remark on Gladochonus tenuicollis (M'Coy), 

 that it is probably a young Syringopora. 



The Rev. W. B. Clarke published a list of the Palseozoic 

 fossils of New South Wales, in 1860, as an appendix to his 

 '^ Southern Goldfields of New South Wales." ^ Several 

 genera and a few species of corals are cited. 



In the third volume of the " Histoire Naturelle des 

 Goralliaires,'' ^ Milne-Edwards expresses much the same 

 opinions on the foregoing Australian fossils to those enun- 

 ciated mutually by himself and Jules Haime in their 

 " Polypier Fossiles" 



Of the peculiar and problematical genus Pleurodictyum, 

 Professor M'Coy has recorded the occurrence of a new 

 species in the upper Silurian rocks of the Upper Yarra 

 district, Victoria, ^ and has named it P. megastomum. 

 No description of these species, so far as I know, has as yet 

 appeared, the fact being merely mentioned in his paper. 



In his " Memoir es des Paleontologie" ^ my friend Professor 

 L. G. De Koninck has given a valuable general list of palseo- 

 zoic corals, arranged in tabular form, showing their distribu- 



1 Vol. 1, pp. 313-314. 



"^ Extrait du tome V. des Archives du Museum d^Histoire Naturelle; 

 Paris ; 4to ; pp. 235, 273-74, and 347. 



3 Sydney, 1860 ; 8vo ; 3rd edition, pp. 285-86'. 

 * Paris, 1860 ; 8vo. 



^ Annals Nat. Hist., 1867, XX., p. 261 ; Note. 

 « Bruxelles; Svo.; 1857-71, pp. 78-82. 



