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Another species, which is known from widely separated localities 
is Fungia somervillei. Gardiner (1909) has described specimens 
from the Seychelles and from the Amirante-group. The specimen 
described in the present paper was found in the Sulu Islands. The 
identity of van der Horst’s specimen from the Paternoster Is¬ 
lands with F. somervillei is not quite sure. 
Fungia granulosa is known from the Red Sea (Dbderlein 
1902), from Rotuma (Gardiner 1909) and from Larantuka, Cele- 
bes (van der Horst 1919). Moreover it was found by the Danish 
Expedition in the Banda Islands. It has therefore a much wider 
distribution than formerly was known. Fungia scutaria, which was 
previously not found in the East Indies (Gardiner 1909) also 
occurs in the Banda Islands. As for F. horrida I am not quite sure 
about the identification of my specimens with this species. If this 
may prove to be correct, this new locality forms a connection 
between the two hitherto known ones, viz. the Red Sea (Doder¬ 
le in 1902) and the Pacific region (Fiji Islands, Dana 1846, and 
Tahiti, Quelch 1886). 
As for the other species of Fungia dealt with in the present 
paper G'ardiner already States that these were found in the 
East Indies. Fungia fungites, which is a very widely distributed 
species was found also in Siam. 
Two of the species of the genus Herpolitha (simplex and weheri) 
are only known from a few localities. Herpolitha simplex was found 
in the Maldives (Gardiner 1905), between Samau Island and 
Timor (van der Horst 1921, Fungia echinata var. parvispina) 
and in Australia (Broome, Folke son 1919). To these now the 
Banda Islands can be added as a locality, where the species is 
fairly common. Herpolitha weberi is known only from the Pater¬ 
noster Islands (Stat. 315 of the Siboga Expedition, van der Horst 
1921). Herpolitha Umax now includes all the other previously des¬ 
cribed species of the genus and this species is very abundant in 
the East Indies and in the Red Sea. It also occurs in other loca¬ 
lities of the Indo-Pacific, but it has after Gardiner (1909) not 
yet been found in the Chagos and Seychelles regions. Probably it 
will also be found there, for van der Horst (1921) records a 
specimen from Mauritius. 
The material of Polyphyllia talpina from the Danish Expedition 
