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dissepiments exist between the costse near the base. The costas are plain, and where 

 coming from beneath the epitheca look like repetitions of septa. 

 Height jof specimen ^ inch; breadth nearly 1-^ inch. 



Illustrations of the Species in Plate IX. 

 Fig. 14. The coral : side view. 

 15o The calicular surface. 



16. The pali : magnified. 



17. Costse : magnified. 



18. CostBB from beneath a ridge of epitheca : magnified. 



BLANFOEDIA, gen. nov. 



The genus Blanfordia, now founded in recognition of the distinguished oriental 

 naturalist and geologist to whom science is so greatly indebted in relation to the strati- 

 graphy of Sind, is one of the Trochocyathacese. There is a pellicular epitheca binding 

 the costse to the discoid base, and the calice is cyclolitoid in shape, the axial space is 

 elliptical, and the whole corallum is nearly circular. 



The septa are numerous, close, and there are small pali on all the septa except those 

 of the last order ; and there is a very general and frequent union of two septa with an 

 intermediate one, giving a Deltocyathine appearance. 



1., Blanb'OEDIa nummifoemis, Duncan. Plate XVIII, Figs. 7-9. 



The corallum is nummiform, with a flat base, the centre of which has partly enve- 

 loped a nummulite. The epitheca is marked with irregular lines. The calice is open, 

 the axial space shallow, and the columella is deep and small. The septa are close 

 crowded, long, slightly broader externally, and the fifth cycle is incomplete ; the union 

 of the three septa takes place very regularly on both sides of a long primary. The pali 

 are small. 



Height of specimen ^^ inch ; breadth ^^ inch. 



Locality. West of Bhagathoro Hill, south of Sehwan, Nari group. Survey- 

 number G ^. 



Illustrations of the Species in Plate XVIII. 



Fig. 7. The coral from above : magnified, 



8. The base : magnified. 



9. Septa: magnified. 



Transition-Group STYLOPEOBINJE. 



Genus STYLOPHOEA, M. Ed. & J. H. 



1. Sttlophoba pulcheeeima, V Achiardi. Plate XV, Figs. 12, 13. 



A portion of a flat branch of this Coral, which is very common at Friuli (Kosazzo 



