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CCELENTEKATA. 
parallela, soaialiSf affmiSf ovalis^ dubia, and incerta, id, L c, pp. 267-2(34, 
pis. 19 & 20, Philippines. 
Heteropsammia michelinii^ M.-E., rotundatUf and ovalis, spp. nn., Philip- 
pines, id. 1. c. pp. 264-266, pi. 20 j Endopachys grayiy M.-E., id. 1. c. p. 267. 
Balanophyllia eleganSj Verr., figured. Am. Nat. vi. p. 732. 
Fungiidcs, 
Diaseris distorta, Mich., freycineti, M.-E., Semper (14), pp. 269 & 270, 
pi. 21, Philippines. 
Astrangiid<B. 
Vorrill unites Adrangia astrmformis with A. damn : Am. J. Sc. iii. 
p. 430. 
Alloporidce. 
Stylaster rosso-americanus, Brandt, Z. wiss. Zool. xxii. p. 292 (name only). 
Allopora norvegica (first described by Gunnerus as Millepora norvegica, and 
at a later period by Ehreuberg as A. octdina'), of which old Norwegian 
specimens are preserved in the Copenhagen Museum, was rediscovered by G. 
O. Sars during his excursion to “ Storeggen,” where he also saw something 
of the characters of the living polype. [The Styladoridce have been hitherto 
unknown in this respect j and there is reason to suspect that their sys- 
tematic position is not correctly understood, their evident affinity to 
Errina and Distichopora pointing rather towards the Ilydrozoa (^Millipoi'a') 
than towards the true Anthozoa.'\ Sars has ascertained that the polype is 
provided with a proboscis, and that the cylindrical tentacula are situated 
between (in true Madreporaria above or opposite) the (spurious?) septa. 
The occurrence at Norway of Stylader gemmascens, Esper, is also confirmed. 
Forh. Selsk. Ohr. 1872, p. 116. 
Errina fissurata, Gray (6), p. 745, pi. 62. figs. 6 & 6, Antarctic Ocean. 
A revised list, prepared by Vicuuill, of the Stony Corals and Antipathacea 
described in Dana’s ‘ Report on Zoophytes ’ is a valuable addition to this 
author’s work on coral reefs &c., as it gives the means of ascertaining at a 
glance the modern nomenclature of the species. Some novelties are intro- 
duced ; e. g., Symphyllia is merged in Mussa, different specimens of the same 
species sometimes differing in the same way and to the same extent as those 
two so-called genera, and the only difference given being dependent upon 
the mode of growth. [But these two genera differ in the same manner as 
Manicina and Trachyphyllia, Pterogyra and Euphyllia j Isophyllia and Sym- 
phyllia, on the other hand, ought to be united.] The reuniting of Coeno- 
psammia with Dendrophyllia is perhaps better founded (“ in certain species 
parts of the corallets have the structure of the former genus, and others that 
of the latter, even in the same specimen j the only distinction made is that 
Ccenopsammia has a smaller number of lamellas ”). Undaria is rightly re- 
stored for Pachyseris, Orbicella for Heliastrcca ; but the transferring of Astrcea 
to Favia of Oken and later authors cannot be approved of. \^Adroia, Lamarck, 
1801, has a double typo — rotulosa, commonly referred to Faoia, but in fact 
a species of Orbicella, and astroites, Linii. ( = Sideradrcea, Blainv., one of the 
