^Distribution 
Roc eat s West Indies, Fossil s Barbados* Lowland 
Reefs, near Bridgetown, M 
Cotypes s British Museum (Natural History)? a piece of on© of the 
setypss In the Baited Stats# Mat ion&l Museum. 
A comparison of this description with the notes on the variation 
of Orb i sella, annular i a will show that it presents no Important dif- 
ference from variations of the ape ©is© already recorded* It* growth 
form is explanai© , the ©xotheoa is solid, and the secondary septa 
often, btrt not elwaya, reach the columella, 
A, ” Fhylloeo©aia soulpta ear, tegala " Buae&a, Quart, Jour, &© ol. 
See, London , eel, XIX, p. 4352, 1863, A® I do not find Duncan's de- 
scription of 1 thin coral satisfactory, and as the authorities of the 
Geological Society of London have kindly sent one of the original 
specimens to the Baited States national Museum, I submit the follow- 
ing descriptions Corallura,© rather thick folium? the specimen her© 
described is unfortunately broken os all its edges, its original di- 
mensions are therefor© unknown. Its present length Is 62 mm,; width 
40 mss. j greatest thickness, 16.5 mm, ? thickness near outer edge 5,5 
ram. Base invested with a coarsely wrinkled epitheca. 
The calls as imvemargias on the cam® level as the flat ©xothec&l 
#Ur faces nor very slightly raised# I» fora they are circular or are some- 
what deformed. Diameter from about 2 ram, to 3,25 by 2.5 ram.? dist&nc© 
apart, from I to 3 ms. Intereor&llite areas with costae, beaded on 
the edges, equal or alternating in si so, corresponding to all septa, 
those of one calls® meeting those of the adjoining calicss® 
