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(d) Actinozoa (Corals). 



Calamophyllia Aylmeri, Gregory. 



Calamophyllia Aylmeri, Gregoiy, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. lvi (1900) p. 31 & 

 pi. i, fig. 3. 



Major Leckie's collection contains a remarkably-good example of 

 this coral in the cherty limestone. 



Localities. — Near Uradu, north of the foot of the Bugga 

 Pass; about -i miles south of Camp, Upper Sheikh, elevation over 

 5000 feet, 



Collectors. — Mrs. Lort-Phillips and Major B-. G. Edwards 

 Leckie. 



Matrix. — Cherty limestone ( = the Uradu Limestone of Prof. 

 Gregory), coloured externally a reddish-brown, containing Opercu- 

 lum complanata (see § A in the Notes on the Foraminiferal 

 Structures, p. 175). 



Peionastejea sp. 



Among Dr. Donaldson Smith's specimens is a silicified coral 

 resembling Prionastrcm crassisepta of Gregory. The calicular 

 details are somewhat obscure, but at the base individual corallites 

 are seen to be longitudinally costated with closely-packed beaded 

 lines, a character not mentioned in the original description, and 

 therefore this specific name is not applicable to the present 

 specimen. 



Locality. — Near Berbera. 



Collector. — Dr. Donaldson Smith. 



Matrix. — Cherty limestone, with a reddish tinge. 



Goniopoea Paekinsoni (Gregory). 



Litharcea Parlcuisoni, Gregory, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. lvi (1900) p. 37 



& pi. ii, figs. 13-14. 

 Goniopora somaliensis prima, H. M. Bernard, ' Catal. of the Madreporarian Corals 



in the British Museum (Natural History) ' vol. iv (1903) pp. 154, 155, & 195. 



There is a fairly well-preserved example of this coral in the 

 Leckie collection, exhibiting portion of a subcylindrieally-branched 

 corallum, having a length of 40 millimetres and a maximum 

 diameter of rather more than 30 mm. The corallites are broad and 

 with shallow calices, and in every way they conform to the charac- 

 ters pointed out in the original description. Mr. Bernard, in the 

 British Museum Catalogue above quoted, has called attention to this 

 species, and regards it as belonging to the genus Qoniopora^ on 

 account of that generic name having priority over Litharcea, a view 

 which is adopted here. Prof. Gregory's specific name of ParJcinsoni 

 should, however, be retained, not only because it was the first used 

 to designate this coral, but because it is not advisable to favour the 

 trinomial system of nomenclature suggested by Mr. Bernard. 



Localities. — Above the Miriya Pass and around God-la-Yareh, 

 south of Bur Dab (type) ; top of Garrasgooi Mountain, at an eleva- 

 tion of 5200 feet, 3 miles south-west of Upper Sheikh. 



