( the following pages I intend to give a list of the Corais from the Atlantic 
Ocean, belonging to the State Museum of Natural History at Stockholm, with a 
detailed description of such forms as appear to demand a more accurate investigation. 
The materials at my disposal, kindly placed in my hands by Professor SVEN LOvEN, 
are chiefly due to the exertions of Swedish naturalists, at work, during the last ten 
years, in different parts of the area indicated. Thus the largest series of West- 
indian species is a fruit of the infatigable and diseriminating zeal of Dr A. Goés, for some 
years a resident in the Westindian possession of Sweden, St. Bartholomew. He ex- 
plored the depths of the Westindian sea around that isle and the neighbouring ones, 
and several times sent home the valuable results of his dredgings. A very rich locality 
he found in 200—300 fathoms off Salt Island, one of the Virgin Islands. Besides the 
corals enumerated in this paper, Dr Goös also collected a large series of beautiful spe- 
cimens of Gorgonide. In 1869, the same year in which he made his richest harvest 
of corals, the Swedish Government sent a ship of the Royal Navy, the ”Josephine”, on 
an exploring expedition in the Atlantic Ocean. Professor Smirrt and Dr LJUNGMAN 
accompanied it as naturalists. The corals collected during this expedition were chiefly 
dredged up off the shores of Portugal, and off the Azores, and also from a bank, disco- 
vered by the officers of the ship and named the Josephine Bank, situated off the coast 
of Portugal in 36” 46' Lat. N.,'14” 7' Long. W. On this bank were found fragments 
of a Dendrophyllia and a Zoanthus, besides the species which are described below. 
I am also under great obligations to Professor CLEvE, who has largely contributed to 
this list by communicating specimens, which he presented to the State Museum, out 
of the beautiful collections, which he himself made, chiefly on the shores of St. Tho- 
mas. Some other Swedish naturalists, named below in connection with the corals they 
collected, have also added a few species. To these materials I have to join a series 
of specimens from Florida presented to the State Museum by Count PourTALES, who 
also had the kindness to lend me some other specimens of great value. His papers 
on Corals"'), as well as that of Dr DUNCAN”) have been of much aid to me for the 
identification of several species. 
1) Deep Sea Corals. Ilustr. Cat. Mus. Comp. Zool., N:o 1V, Cambr. 1871. — Zoological Results of the Hassler 
Expedition. I. Echini, Crinoids and Corals. Cambridge 1874. 
?) A Description of the Madreporaria dredged up during the Expeditions of H. M. S. ”Porcupine” in 1869 
and 1870 (Transact. Zool. Soc. vol. 8. p. 5, 1873). 
