Corah from the Ch ina Sea . 
449 
Fung id Coral , gen. et sp. ind. 
Corallum turbinate, attached, the upper surface flattened, 
convex, the lateral surface faintly costulated. The upper 
surface 23 raillim. wide, with a principal subcentral calice 
about 2 millim. wide, with one septa ; also two smaller sub- 
ordinate calices. The septa confluent, extending quite to the 
edge of corallum, closely arranged, composed of nodular 
trabeculae, which appear to remain perforate. Columella 
papillary, inconspicuous. 
I do not And any recent genus in which this coral can be 
included. It would apparently belong to the family Plesio- 
poritidae of Prof. Duncan (Rev. Madrep., Journ. Linn. Soc., 
Zool. vol. xviii. p. 165). As there is only one specimen it 
cannot be sacrificed for sections. 
From Tizard Bank, 6 fath. 
Section Madreporaria Perforata. 
Genus Balanophyllia, Searles Wood. 
Balanophyllia parvula ?, Moseley. 
1881. Balanophyllia parvula, Moseley, Chall. Report, Zool. vol. ii. 
p. 194. 
Tizard Bank, 50 fath. 
Balanophyllia scabrosa ?, Dana, sp. 
1848. Dendropkyllia scabi'osa, Dana, Expl. Exp. Zooph. p. 390, pi. xxvii. 
fig. 2. 
Two specimens, both living when obtained. 
Tizard Bank, 40 fath. 
Genus Dendrophyllia, Blainville. 
Dendrophyllia gravis , Bruggeman, MS. ? 
One large branch more than 30 centim. in height and a 
smaller branch were obtained. Only in the upper portion 
were the polyps alive ; of a blackish tint. 
This form is similar to specimens in the British Museum 
marked as above, which may be a MS. name, for I have not 
met with any printed description of the species. 
Tizard Bank, 26 fath. 
