Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen’s Pacific Expedition 
1914 — 16 . 
XXVIII. 
Madreporaria I. 
Fungiidae. 
Systematic Description and Biological Notes of the material from the Danish 
Expedition to the Kei Islands 1922, Dr. Mortensen’s Pacific Expedition 
1914—16, and from various other localities, in the 
Copenhagen Zoological Museum. 
By 
Dr. H. Boschma, 
(From the Zoological Laboratory of the University of Leyden). 
(With Plates V—XI). 
During the Danish Expedition to the Kei Islands (1922) the 
reef-exploration was of secondary importance, the main object being 
the dredgings in deeper water. Therefore the collection oF reef- 
corals from the different localities does not give an accurate idea 
of the number of species present in a certain locality and of their 
quantitative distribution. From most of the larger species of Fungia 
and the colonial Fungids chiefly those specimens were collected 
which showed some features of biological interest, such as budding 
or regeneration. The corals from the dredgings are all preserved 
with the exception of some too much worn-off specimens, and these 
therefore accurate indication of the species in the diffe¬ 
rent localities. In the Banda Islands a native diver rendered us 
excellent service by collecting a large quantity of the smaller Fungiae 
belonging to the patella-group. This large material enabled me to 
demonstrate, that in „Fungici paiellci^^ of different authors a number 
of distinet species are united. In a former publication (1923 c) I 
gave diagnoses of these species and some of the specimens dealt 
with in this paper are already described and figured there. 
I desire to express here my sincerest thanks to Dr. Th. Mor¬ 
tensen, who kindly put the whole of the material from the Danish 
