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Stylocoania Taurinensis, M. Ed. Sf J. Haime. 



Subfamily Aste^acej 



Montlivaltia Vignei, D'Areh. ^ J. Haime. 

 Dasyphyllia gemmans, Duncan. 

 Ehabdophyllia Nariensis, Dwncan. 

 Leptoria eoncentrica, Duncan. 



Mseandrina Medlicotti, Duncan. 

 PrionastrBBa insignis, Duncan. 

 -^ tenuiseptata, Duncan. 



Family FUNQID^. 

 Cyeloseris Perezi, M. Ed. d/- J. Haime. | Cyclolites orientalis, Duncan. 



Group MADEEPOEAJBIA PEEFOEATA. 



Family POBITID^. 

 Litharsea nodulosa, Dimmn. 



Section MADEEPORARIA. 



Group MADEEPORARIA APOROSA. 

 Family TTJEBmOLIDM. 



Subfamily TBOCHOCYATHACEJE. 



Qenus TEOCHOCYATHUS, M. Ed. & J. H. 



1. Tkochoctathus Burnesi, J. Haime. Plate XVIII, Figs. 1-6. 



This coral was described by J. Haime in D'Archiac's Hist, des progr. de la Geol. 

 t. iii. p. 226 (1850), and subsequently it was noticed and drawn in their description of 

 the Corals from Sind (p. 183). It was said to come from the Chaine d'Hala (Sinde) ; but 

 the locality of derivation in this hypothetical mountain-chain is not stated. No perfect 

 specimen is amongst those collected in the Geological Survey of the country ; but a 

 fractured coral from the Nari group evidently is a variety of it. The following is the 

 description by J. Haime : — 



The corallum is very short, subcyclolitoid, circular, the inferior surface slightly 

 convex, pedicellate, and hollowed slightly centrally at the base into a little round fossula. 

 The costse are straight, distinct, and the primaries and secondaries are equal and project 

 slightly ; there is not much difference as regards the size of the others, and they are 

 very close and finely granular, and nearly flat. The calice is relatively rather deep, and 

 has a wide fossa. There are five complete cycles of septa ; and the costse are straight, 

 narrow, exsert slightly, and rounded externally, and tolerably thin. Those of the first 

 three cycles are subequal, and the others are slightly smaller, and all are granular and 

 striated at the edge. The deeply seated columella is but slightly developed. The pali 

 are short, moderately broad, rounded, and about the thickness of the septa to which 

 they belong ; but they are the largest when before the higher orders of septa, and those 

 before the penultimate septa are bilobed. The last cycle of septa has no pali. The 

 diameter of the coral is 2 centimetres, and the height 6 millinietres (that is, -f inch and 

 about -J inch). 



