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MADREPORARIA. 
Flabellum Goodei Verrill. 
This Journal, xvi, p. 377, 1878. 
This species is very closely allied to F. alabastrum Moseley,* 
taken by the Challenger, off the Azores, in 1000 fathoms. The 
two forms may eventually prove to be identical, when directly 
compared, but none of the numerous specimens examined by 
His Specimens ave the calicles more oblong, with the ends 
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prominent and angular; and the whole surface is rougher. 
This very fragile coral has the power of restoring itself from 
mere fragments. Many pieces have been found showing new 
calicles, in all stages of progress, arising from the inner surface 
of the fragments ‘of old calicles. Specimens thus restored are 
often irregular in form till of considerable size, and one, about 
an oe across, still had a nearly circular outline 
e the color of the disk and tentacles is 3 rich salmon ; 
Bp 
458 fathoms, is 65™ high, g greater diameter 98™, lesser diam- 
eter, 5 
The Giousees fishermen have presented it in eleven lots, 
mostly from near the Grand Bank, Banquereau, none Island 
Bank, and east of George’s Bank, in 180 to 400 fathoms. We 
have ‘dredged it, on the Fish Haw k, at various localities off 
Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, in 219 to 487 fathoms; off 
Chesapeake Bay,—Captain Tanner. Large numbers were taken 
at stabi 8938-895, 925, 951, 952, but they were mostly 
crushed to small fragments by the great quantities of larger 
animals in the trawl. 
Bathyactis symmetrica Moseley. 
Fungia symmetrica Pourtales, Deep Sea Corals, p. 46, pl. 7, figs 
Bathyactis — metrica Moseley, Zool. Voy. Challener part vii, . "ise pl 11, 
figs. 1-13, 
1 Fangincyatins fragilis Sars, in S. O, Sars, Remarkable Forms of Animal 
Life, i, p. 58, pl. 5, re rier 1872. 
Numerous broken specimens of this very fragile coral were 
Sa at stations 879, 880, 895, in 225-252 fathoms, gh 
- these specimens must have been at least 20™ j 
Royal Soc., 1876, p. 555; and Zoology Voyage Challenger, Part vii, 
eis on ie p. 169, pl. 7, ae ab pl. 16, fig. 11, 1881, 
