CCELENTERATA. 
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forms of tills group met with about the Fiji Islands. The reef-building- 
Corals are very numerous. The genera chiefly represented are Madrepora^ 
Pocillopot'a, Seriatopora^ Mmsa^ Mrsandrma^ and Pungia. Pistichopora occurs 
on the outer margin of the reef of Ovalau ; and Schmelz (/. c. p. 592) indi- 
cates a probable new species of this genus, which Grafle believes to belong to 
the Polyzoa. Schmelz also notices a monstrous specimen of HerpetoUtha. 
Van Beneden (1. c.) records the following Zoantharia as occurring on the 
coast of Belgium : — 
Actinia coccinea^ O. F. M. (pi. 19. figs. 1-4) ; A. Candida^ O. F. M. ; A. 
crassicornis ; A. troglodytes, Johnst. ; A. plumosa, O. F. M. ; A. equina, Linn. ; 
A. effoeta, Linn. ; and A. gemniacea, Ell. & Sol. (pi. 19. figs. 5, 0). Balano- 
phyllia regia and Caryophyllia smithii, though not recorded as occurring in 
Belgium, are figured from English specimens kept in an aquarium. 
[It will be seen from the nomenclature adopted that the author is not 
familiar with Gosse’s ‘ Actinologia Britannica;’ neither is this work referved 
to in the bibliography of the Zoantharia. A discussion is alluded to as having 
taken place between Messrs. Wright, Barrett, and Hincks, which appears to 
have astonished the author, on the subject of the reproduction of Actinia. 
Although we recognize the names of the disputants, yet we have been quite 
unable to find any published account of the discussion.] 
Verriel (Proc. Essex Inst, v.) refers to the relative position of the two 
orders of this group, the Madreporaria and Actinaria, and describes and some- 
times figures the following known species : — Montipm'a foliosa ? (Edw. & H.) ; 
Balanophyllia capensis (Verr.), pi. 1. fig. 1, and pi. 2. fig. 1 ; Eupsammia stinip- 
soniana (Verr.), pi. 2. fig. 3 ; Dendrojyhyllia gracilis (Edw. & H.), pi. 1. fig. 2, 
and pi. 2. fig. 2 ; Astrcea {Favia) hombronii (Edw. & H.) ? ; PlesiastrcBa urvillei 
(Edw. II.) ; Galaxca fascicidaris (Oken) ? ; Jletcrocyathus alternata (Verr.), 
pi. 2. fig. G. Veri-ill also notices several specimens collected by the Pacific 
Exploring Expedition, which could not be determined owing to their being 
young or mutilated ; among these are species of Forites (p. 26), Turhinaria 
(p. 28), Flahellum (p. 42, pi. 2. fig. 5), Fungia (p, 43), and Ctenactis (p. 44). 
Astrangia dance (Edw. & II.) is called A. edwardsii by Verrill, A. dance 
(Agass.) having been described one year before it. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. II. x. 
p. 335, note. 
Caryophyllia smithii is recorded by M'^Intosh (Proc. Boy. Soc. Edinb. vol. v. 
p. 001) as found in vast numbers at the verge of low water on the eastern side 
of the Island of North Uist, attached to muddy stones. 
Antlica cercus. E. II. Bennett mentions a mode of fissiparous reproduc- 
tion observed in this Actinozoan. Proc. Dubl. Nat. Hist. Soc. vol. iv. pp. 
208-211 ; Dub. Quart. Jour. Scien. January 186G, pp. 48-62. 
Antipathes suhpinnata and A. larix. Lacaze-Duthiers (/. c.) gives a very 
detailed account of the histology of these two species, especially of the 
former. This paper is a continuation of the same author’s memoir on the his- 
tology of the Gorgonidee. 
New genera : — 
Verrill (List of Polyps and Corals sent in exchange, &c.) describes the 
following new genera : — 
Synar<ea, 1. c. p. 42, for Forites erosa, F. mformis, and F. monticidosa (of 
Dana). New sp. : S. irregularis, Verr. 1. c. p. 43, Sandwich Islands ; S. con- 
Verr. ibid., and S. solida, Verr. ibid.. Society Islands. 
