Corals from the China Sea. 
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Genus Flabellum, Lesson. 
Flabellum Stohesi, Ed. & Haime. 
1848. Flabellum Stohesi, E. & H. Ann. des Sc. Nat. 3* s6r. t. ix. 
p. 278, pi. viii. fig. 12. 
One dead specimen, probably referable to this species. 
Tizard Bank, 40 fath. 
Genus Desmophyllum, Ehrenberg. 
Desmophyllum , sp. 
A single small example of this genus taken alive ; it may 
be a young form of an undescribed species. The coral is 
attached by a short curved stem and a spreading base. The 
calice is elliptical in outline, 18 millim. long by 10 millim. 
wide, and about 19 millim. in height. There are about forty 
septa ; ten of these are subequal and principal, reaching to 
the centre of the calice, where their inner, free, lateral margins 
slightly curve round ; the septa are thin and furnished laterally 
with minute spines. Between each pair of the larger septa 
there are three smaller secondary septa which project but a 
short distance from the wall. The costae of the larger septa 
project slightly as sharp-edged ribs on the exterior. 
Macclesfield Bank, 32 fath. 
Genus Cyathohelia, Ed. & II. 
Cyathohelia axillaris , Ell. & Sol. 
1786. Madrepora axillaris , Ell. & Sol. Nat. Hist. Zooph. p. 153, pi. xiii, 
fig. 5. 
A single specimen, living, was obtained from the Tizard 
Bank, depth 50 fath. 
Genus Lithophyllia, Ed. & H. 
Lithophyllia lacrymalis , Ed. & H. 
1848. Caryophyllia lacrymalis , E. & H. Ann. des Sci. Nat. 3 e s6r. t. x. 
p. 319, pi. viii. fig. 1. 
1857. Lithophyllia lacrymalis , E. & H. Hist. Nat. des Corail. vol. ii. 
p. 292. 
A single specimen, dead, attached to a nodule of Litho- 
thamnion. 
Macclesfield Bank, depth 44 fath. 
