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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
Iii the arrangement of families 1 have followed Verri 11 quite closely, as his classi- 
fication seems the most satisfactory in many respects. The new family names which 
are proposed are for the most part necessary changes of old names, his general 
scheme being followed. 
The plates are from photographs by Mr. Levin C. Handy. The drawings for 
the other figures were made by Dr. J. C. McConnell and Miss Florence Wieser. 
DISCUSSION OF SPECIES. 
Class ANTHOZOA. 
Order ACTINLE. 
Suborder SCLERACTINI7E. 
Family CARYOPHYLLIDT Verrill. 
Genus CABYOPHYLLIA Lamarck, 1801. 
Caryophyllia berteriana Duchassaing?. 
1850. Caryophyllia berteriana, Duchassaing, Anim. Had. Ant., p. 15. 
1868. Caryophyllia formosa, Pourtalfis, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. I, No. 6, p. 113. 
1871. Caryophyllia formosa, Pourtales, 111. Cat. Mus. Comp. Zool., No. iv, p. 7, pi. i, fig. 16; also C. berteriana? , ibid, p. 8. 
1874. Caryophyllia berteriana, Pourtales, 111. Cat. Mus. Comp. Zool., No. VIII, p. 32, pi. vi, figs. 1, 2. 
1878. Caryophyllia formosa, Pourtales, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. v, No. 9, p. 199. 
1880. Caryophyllia berteriana, Pourtales, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. vi, No. 4, pp. 96, 99. 
1881. Caryophyllia berteriana, Moseley, Deep-Sea Corals, Challenger Reports, p. 134. 
A single young specimen of a species of Caryophyllia was obtained. C. berteriana is apparently the 
only species to which it can be referred. The correctness of the identification is not, quite positive, 
and therefore the name above is followed by a question mark. Locality not given. 
Genus PARACYATHUS Milne-Edwards & Haime. 1848. 
Paracyathus de filippii Duchassaing & Michelotti. PI. i, figs. 1, la. 
1861. Paracyathus de filippii, Duchassaing & Michelotti, MCm. Corail. Ant., p. 60 (of reprint), pi. ix, tigs. 2, 3. 
1866. Paracyathus de filippii, Duchassaing & Michelloti, Sup. M&m. Corail. Ant., p. 65 (of reprint). 
1869. Paracyathus confertus, Pourtales, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. I, No. 7, p. 134. 
1871. Paracyathus confertus, Pourtales, 111. Cat. Mus. Comp. Zool., No. IV, p. 11, pi. vi, figs. 11, 12. 13. 
1874. Paracyathus de filippii, Pourtales, 111. Cat. Mus. Comp. Zool., No. vur, p. 38. 
1878. Paracyathus confertus, Studer, Monatsber. Akad. Wissen. Berlin for 1877, p. 628. 
1878. Paracyathus <lc filippii, Pourtales, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. v, No. 9, p. 200. 
1880. Paracyathus dr filippii, Pourtales. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. vi, No. 1, pp. 96, 105. 
1881. Paracyathus de filippii, Moseley, Deep-Sea Corals, Challenger Reports, p. 144. 
Two specimens of this common West Indian species were obtained from station 6062, Mayaguez 
Harbor, and station 6075, Boca Prieta, Point Guaniquilla. Both are young and neither is very good. 
Bathymetric occurrence, 8f to 30 fathoms. 
