194 A. E. Verrill—A ffinities of Paleozoic Tabulate Corals, etc. 
doubtful whether the group can be maintained even as @ SUD. 
family, for Alveopora and Goniopora combine the characters of 
perhaps, be provisionally divided into three sub-families; Por- 
ITIN#, for Porites and the closely allied genera ; ALVEOPORINA, 
to include Alveopora, Goniopora, Litharea, and, if considered 
distinet, Koninckia and Favositipora ; FAVOSITINS, to embrace 
Favosites, nsia, Michelina, and the other closely allied 
genera. It is probable, however, that even such a slight sep® 
ration of Alveopora and Favosi 
t. 
seem the more remarkable, considering the extreme delicacy and 
fragility of these corals, and also the fact that, so far as know? 
they are all shallow water and reef species. 
* The genus Montipora, for which Edwards and Haime constituted their seem 
sub-family of Poritidee (Montiporine), belongs properly to the Madreporide, # re it 
ed elsewhere by the writer (Trans. Conn. Acad., vol. i, p. 501), and whe 
was of. Dan 
the writer in 1870 (Trans. Conn. Acad., i, p. 518). Mr. Kent, in the article referred 
to, pub simultaneously with mine ssed th 
im 
hydroid polyps, as I had one both in the r refe a 
. Dae sas it 
1867. This coincidence of opinion, arrived at through studies pursued in se 
Ways and approached from different directions, could not fail to be gratifying 
to the writer and to Mr. Kent, 
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