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some facts in connection with the new species described in the 
present paper and the previous one (Boschma 1923c). 
The distribution of the three forms united in Ddderlein's 
Fungia patella is the following: 
Fungia hexagonalis: Friendly Islands (Moseley 1881), Philip- 
pines (Quelch 1886, Milne Edwards and Haime 1851), Pa¬ 
ternoster Islands and Banda (Boschma 1923c). 
Fungia patelliformis: Ralum, Neu Pommern (Ddderlein 1902), 
eastern part of East Indian Archipelago (Boschma 1923c), Sulu 
Islands, Java Sea, Siam, Hawaiian Islands. In this latter locality 
the species was not found in a living State, but the specimens show 
the typical characteristics of F. patelliformis. 
Fungia fragilis: Philippines (Quelch 1886, Cycloseris freycineti 
and C. discus), Andaman Sea (Alcock 1893), Ralum, Neu Pom¬ 
mern (Doderlein 1902, F. patella var. filigrana), Hawaiian Islands 
(Vaughan 1907), Seychelles (Gardiner 1909), eastern part of 
East Indian Archipelago (Boschma 1923c). 
One of the species of Fungia dealt with in this paper, viz. 
Fungia laciniosa, is hitherto known only from Banda. Fungia mar- 
ginata was besides in the Banda Islands also collected in the Pater¬ 
noster Islands (Boschma 1923c). As for F. moluccensis one of 
the specimens described by van der Horst (1919, 1921) was 
found in the Moluccas, the locality of the other is unknown. In 
the present material there are 12 specimens of this species from 
Banda, but it occurs probably also in the neighbouring islands. It 
certainly has a much wider range of distribution, for in the Museum 
of Comparative Zoology in Cambridge (iVlass.) there is one speci- 
men from Singapore, labeled Pleuractis elevata Verrill, which 
without any doubt is a representative of F. moluccensis. There is 
no description of Pleuractis elevata published, and consequently the 
species has to keep the name F. moluccensis. 
Fungia distorta is found farther towards the eastern part of the 
Indian Archipelago than it was recorded by Gardiner. It is a 
very common species in the Banda-group and in the Kei-Islands. 
The species from the Hawaiian Islands described by Vaughan 
(1907) as Fungia patella, for which I have substituted the name 
Fungia vaughani, is after V a u g h a n (1907 c) and G r a v i e r (1911) 
also found in the Red Sea. 
