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The senior author had an opportunity, in 190S, to compare the specimens 

 from China with the rich material of Favpsitcs preserved in the Geological 

 Institute of the University of Breslau, with the kind sanction of Prof F. Frech, 

 and found certain specimens of F. goldfiissi from tlie Middle Devonian of 

 Eifel macroscopically and microscopically almost indistinguishable from the 

 Chinese specimens. One of the latter, in a small longitudinal section, shows 

 very crowded tabulae and appears somewhat different from the other ; but the 

 large collection of Breslau has shown that both may belong to one and the 

 same species. At present we have, in the collection of the Geological Institute 

 of Sendai, numerous specimens of Favositcs from Europe (mostly from Got- 

 land, B>ifel and Bohemia) and North America collected by one of us ; detailed 

 comparison of the Chinese specimens with them has led us also to the same 

 conclusion, namely, that the former belong to F. goldfussi and not to F. 

 _ g'otlandiciis. 



One of our specimens, from Pen-chap-tse; Cho-hua-hsien, prov. Sze- 

 chuan is a massive corallum composed of corallites nearly uniform in size, and 

 about 2.5 mm. in diameter, and almost always hexagonal, seldom pentagonal 

 or tetragonal in cross section. The wall of the corallites is thin and without 

 any trace of septal spine ; the tabulae are almost flat, counting 6-7 in a .space of 

 5 mm. The mural pores are relatively large. 



The second specimen, from Chi-li-pu, Ta-kuan-ting, prov. Yun-nan, is 

 - distinguished from the preceding one by having an indefinite number of septal 

 spines which are preserved in a state hardly recognizable as such, and by very 

 crowded tabulae. 



Locality : — South of Pen-chao-tse, Chao-hua-hsien, prov. Sze-chuan, and 

 ■^Chi-li-pu, Ta-kuan-ting, prov. Yun-nan. , • . •• 



Geological Age : — Middle Devonian. ' 



Favosite goldfassi M.-Edwards et Haime var. major Frech. 



PL IX., Figs. 3 a-b. 

 VI 899, F. goldfiissi var. major Frech : Pal. Korallen in L. v. Loczy's Wiss. 

 Ergebn. d. Reise d. Graf. Szecheny, p. 232, pi. VIIL, figs, i, la. 



