416 Scientific Intelligence. 
A fine, large specimen of this beautiful species, from La Paz, 
Gulf of California, i is in the collection. 
dM, Sup 
eon dba pat 9 Verril lL, = “Sympodium Pacificum, 
Verrill, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 1866, p. 3 
Telesto trichostemma Verril ill, = aa Geneanis trichostemma Dana, 
Zosph. p. 665, Pl. 59, f. 3, 3a, 3b.—An examination of the original 
specimen of this Species shows that it is a parasitic polyp (proba- 
bly a Zelesto) allied to Cornularia, covering in the lower part the 
dead axis of an Antipathes, but in the upper part rising up into 
slender, hollow branches of its own. 
Cyathopodium tenue Verrill, = or tenuis Dana, Zodph., p. 
59, fig. 5, 1846.—This new genus is proposed for the re- 
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shaped tubes, nect ed by narrow calcareous Lado which 
correspond to the ee varee plates of Zubipora, and from which 
oes new bud 
b EK. Ver 
the eae Academy of ye and a vol. i. New Haven, 
Feb. 1868).—In this paper 19 —- of corals and 16 of Echino- 
s are enumerated as collected on the Brazilian coast by 
Hartt. The Echinoderms are sacetly: West Indian species, yet 
three are described as_new (Echinaster crasispn na, Asterias At- 
_ lantica, and Thyone Braziliensis), and notes on the localities and 
stations of most of the species are given b ce 
rence of Oreaster gigas Lutk., so far south, is — Of co- 
sa Harttii, Symphyllia Harttii, Porites slide: “Pie 
gorgia teicille, Millepora nitida, M. Braziliensis, M. alcicornis, 
var. cellulosa. 
_ Mr. Hartt furnishes this monet of the Brazilian coral-reefs and 
ne di tion of the speci 
“The following general oceictigios may be added with reference 
to the coral-fauna of Brazil. 
«, “1st. The species are, as Prof. Verrill above remarks, almost with- 
out ex ~oeherty Pee to the Brazilian coast, — which they have 
a wide tion; the most of the from 
Daan to 5 Cn Frio, which seems to be she southern limit 
‘Inthe Bay of Rio de Janeiro, where the conditions 
ve! —- for coral growth, I have tees able to 
Hartt =< oe which is also ati tao Apel Mos. 
with an description of the coral reefs. 
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