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Axohelia {Stylophord) dumetosa, Duch. ; id. ibid. pi. viii. fig. 1 (Bar- 
badoea, 100 fatli., St. Thornas ?, coast of Brazil) ; A. sclirammi, sp. n., 
id. 1. c. p. 41, pi. viii. fig. 2. Axohelia is retained for the species 
with compact coenoncliyma, Madracis for those in which, it remains 
cellular. 
Antiilia explanata^ sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 42, pi. viii. figs. 4-6 (Barbadoes, 
75 fath.). AntilUa has hitherto been held as an extinct genus; it is 
distinct from Lithopliyllia by the epitheca on its lower surface and the 
small point of attachment. 
Cladocora patriarc [A] a, sp. n., id. ibid. pi. vii. fig. 7 (Cape Frio, 
35 fath.). 
Cladangia exusta (Stp.). The Recorder’s paper on this species reprinted 
in abstract, Arch. Z. exper. iii. p. xxix. & xxx. ; J. Zool. iii. pp. 321-324. 
Stylaster punctatus, Pourtales, 1. c. pi. vii. figs. 8 & 9 (Barbadoes, 100 
fath.). 
Distichopora barbadensis, sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 43, pi. vii. fig. 10 (Barba- 
does) ; D. cervina, id. ibid. pi. vii. fig. 11. 
Balanophyllia floridana, id. ibid. pi. vi. fig. 10 (Barbadoes). 
Mycedium cailleti^ D. M. ; id. 1. c. pi. ix. figs. 1 & 2 (Barbadoes). 
Gwynia annulata, Dune.; id. 1. c. p. 44, pi. ix. figs. 3 & 4 (Bar- 
badoes). 
Duncania, g. n., id. 1. c. p. 45. Corallum attached, cylindrical, covered 
with a thick wrinkled epitheca, rising over the border of the caliclo ; 
interseptal chambers filling up solidly from the bottom ; a multiple 
pillared columella ; sometimes paliform lobes. D. barbadensis^ sp. n., 
id. ibid. pi. ix. figs. 5-7, with description of the animal (Barbadoes). 
Antipathes {Cirripathes) desbonnii^ D. M., p. 46; A. {Arachnopatlies^ 
colnmnaris, D., ibid. pi. ix. fig. 8 ; A. humilis, ibid. pi. ix. fig. 9 ; A. 
abictina, sp. n., p. 47, pi. x. fig. 10 (all from Barbadoes, 100 fath.) ; A. 
fernandezi, sp. n., p. 47 (Juan Fernandez, 65-220 fath.) : id. 1. c. The 
central column in A. colnmnaris is the habitation of an Annelid, as in 
Lophelia prolifera, &c. 
Fossil Coeals. 
R. Etiteridgb : Observations on Clicetetes tumidus, Phill. ; Ann. N. H. 
(4) xiii. pp. 194-196, pi. xi. figs. 1-3. A. H. Nicholson : On Dun- 
Cfinella, a now genus of palaeozoic corals, tom. cit. pp. 333-335 ; Descrip- 
tions of species of Chcetetes from the lower silurian rocks of North 
America, J. G. Soc. 1874, pp. 439-515, pis. xxix.-xxxi. ; abstract, Z. ges. 
Naturw. (2) xi. p. 77 ; On the species of Favosites of the Devonian rocks 
of Western Ontario, Canad. Nat. (n.s.) xiy. p. 38 ; On Columnopora, a 
now genus of tabulate corals, Gool. Mag. (n.s.) i. pp. 253-254 ; De- 
scriptions of now fossils from the Devonian formation of Oanada West, 
1 . c. pp. 10-16, 54-60, pis. ii. & iii.. J^homson : Descriptions of now 
corals from the carboniferous limestone of Scotland ; tom. cit. pp. 556-559, 
pi. XX. The elaborate paper of the late A. E. v. Reuss, on the older 
tertiary Alpine corals [Zool. Rec. x. p. 509], is published in Denk. Ak. 
Wien, xxxiii. pp. 1-60, pis. xxxvii.-lvi. 
