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he has been engaged on his “ Monograph of the Stromatoporidse,” has led him to regard 
the masses in the Eeid Limestone as more probably referable to Stromaiopora proper, 
and oven allied to the typical and true S. coneentrica, Goldf., and Stromatoporella 
(PI. 1, figs. 1, 2). The surfaces of many of these large masses from the Eeid 
Limestone present mammillary or button-shaped prominences, which have been left by 
the process of weathering, possessing, however, the same structure as the general mass. 
They may be merely the result of peculiar preservation, or they may be young examples 
included in the older ones ; at any rate, so far as we can at present ascertain, they do 
not appear to have any specific value. 
Pending a detailed and proper description of the Eifel and Devonshire forms of 
Stromaiopora,* I refrain from entering into details concerning these specimens, and 
hope to be able to do so, with more satisfactory material, at some future date. 
Loc. and Horizon. Broken Eiver, a tributary of the Clarke Eiver {The late H. 
Daintree) ; Terrible or Arthur’s Creek, Burdekin Downs (iE. L. Jack) ; and Eegan’s, 
hforthern Eailway, thirty-one miles from Townsville, Eeid Limestone {It. L. Jack), 
Class — Actinozoa. 
The three groups of the Zoantharia, Alcyonaria, and Eugosa are represented in 
the Devonian of Queensland — the first by the genera Favosites and Alveolites, &c., the 
second by Aiilopora, Amplexopora, &c., and the last-named by the genera Oyathophyllum, 
Cainpophyllum., and Gystiphyllum. The examination of all these corals is rendered 
difficult, as in the case of the Stromatoporoidea, by their highly altered condition. No 
doubt a further examination of the localities mentioned will bring to light a much more 
copious coral fauna than that here described. 
Orcler— ZOANTHARIA. 
Sub-Order — Z. Sclehodermata. 
Section — Peepoeata. 
Family— PAVOSITID^. 
Oemis — FAVOSITES, Lamarck, ISIG. 
(Hist. Anim. sans Vertiib., ii., p. 204.) 
Ols. Amongst the Queensland corals are two forms of Favosites only separable 
by the size of the corallites composing the respective colonies. These are referred to 
the cosmopolitan Favosites gothlandica, and its variety Ooldfussi. 
A single specimen of a massive Favosites with plenty of tabula; was obtained at 
Eaglau, Port Curtis, by Mr. AV. II. Eands. It is preserved in a light slate-blue 
conchoidal limestone and has a strong Devonian aspect. The material was not sufficient 
in quantity to permit of the preparation of sections for a specific determination. 
Favosites gothlandica, {Fougt.) Lamarck, PI. 3, figs. 1-5. 
Favosites gotMandica, Lamarck, Hist. Anim. sans Verteb., 1810, ii., p. 200. 
Calamopora gothlandica, GoHfuss, Petrefacta Gerraaniae, 1829, i., p. 78, t. 20, fig. 3 a-e. 
Favosites gothlandica, Edwards and Ilaime, Polyp, foss. Terr. Pal., 1861, p. 232. 
Favosites Goldfwsi, Edwards and Haime, ibid. p. 235, t. -xx., fig. 3 a, b. 
Favosites gothlandica, Nicholson and Etlieridge fit, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1870, iv., p. 209. 
Favosites gothlandica, Nicholson, Tab. Corals Pal. Period, 1870, )). 46, t. i., figs. 1-G. 
Obs. It will he convenient to consider the form with the smallest corallites 
(PI. 3, fig. 4), as the typical F. yothlandica, whilst that with the larger calices may be 
* Now in course of preparation by Prof. H. A. Nicholson, and publication by the Palaeontographical Society. 
