and that th® name should fee dropped from coral nomenclature* 
The type sped i men of Hadrepora fav® plata Ellis & Solan dor is pre- 
served in the Bunteriaa Museum of the University of Glasgow , where I 
have seen it, and Prof. Kerr has kindly sent me a photograph* It Is 
a worn specimen, considerably Infiltrated with carbonate of lime, and 
is probably the same as Orb 1 cel la annularis * 
Astrsa ( Orbicella ) stellulata Dana has been carefully rodeseribed 
by Prof* Yerrill from Sana’s types, which are preserved in the T&X© 
University Museum* The following is his descriptions 
1/ 
"They are beach-worn specimens of a true Orbicella, more or loss 
infiltrated with calcium carbonate, to which the unusual solidity of 
the wall® and ©xothea,ln some parts, as assn in sections figured by 
Dana, seem to be partly duo* In other parts the structure is near- 
ly as in 0* annularis , to which it probably belong®, though there are 
differences in the sect i one not due to infiltration* Its septal &r« 
\J Conn* Acad, Sol. Trans*, vol* XI, p* 96, PX* XV, fig* 2, 1902* 
rangement is ih® same as in ordinary specimens of the latter, those of 
the third cycle being distinct, but narrow and thin* The borders of 
the calicles seem to have been but little raised, and the septa rath- 
er thinner than usual, and not much exsert, but the poor condition of 
th® specimen® render® these characters rather uncertain* 
"The calieles are rather smaller (2 to 2*5 mm* in diameter) than 
is usual in 0* annularis* Th# thin septa are la thru® regular cycle®? 
those of the third cycle are very thin and reach only on®.* fourth or 
one-third to the columella, which Is well developed* Th® ©@pta are 
a little thickened at th© wall} their face® are only slightly granu- 
lated* There are a few. Irregular email teeth on their inner edges 
where best preserve 4| upper ends are gll worn off; some have a pall- 
form tooth at the base* Th© costae are well developed, inosculating, 
with irregular exothec&l dissepiments between the®, as in <0, annularis* 
But in some vertical section® the walls appear a® narrow, “oil'd st'ru'c- 1 
ture® (where unaltered)? in th© section© the columella region is loose- 
ly filled with stout ascending trabeculae; th© mioth&m consists of 
small, very thin, nearly horizontal dissepiment®, inclining downward 
a little, and often in two series* Ho. 4266* 
"Their origin is uncertain, but it appear® to be West Indian/ They 
are in the same beach-worn state as several other types of West Indian 
corals studied by Prof* Dana* . Apparently most 1?©st Indian coral®, in 
good condition, war© acaroe in American museums at the time when h® wrote 
his great work* 
