VERMIOLOGY. 



PLATE CLXII. 



MADREPORA CYATHUS 

 CUP-FORMED MADREPORA 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Coral, with lamellate star-shaped cavities. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 

 AND 

 SYNONYMS. 



Clavate, turbinate with a tapering base : star obconic with a 

 doubled prominent jagged centre. 



Madrepora Cyathus : clavato-turbinata basi attenuata : Stella 

 obconica ; centro-prominulo exeso duplicato. 

 Soland. and Ellis Coral, p. 150. n. 3. t. 28./ 7. 

 Gmel. T. 1. p. 6. 3757. 6. 



Some of the late French writers have instituted a new genus of 

 the Madrepore tribe, to which the present Coral appertains, under 

 the name of Caryophyllia. The species of this particular tribe are 

 vol. v. H 



