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Show 1880.] MR. H. N. MOSELEY ON A NEW CORAL. 41 because it therefore belongs to the restricted genus Myoxus, characterized by a simple stomach and a bushy distichous tail. Its nearest ally is M. dryas, Schreb., found in South-eastern Europe, Asia Minor, and Persia. Myoxus lasiotis is, according to Temminck, very rare in Japan: his original specimens were obtained from the province of Awa, in the island of Sikok ; and I can find no others recorded until the arrival of this one from Yokohama. Note.- Since writing the above I have discovered that this has been renamed M. javanicus by Schinz, in the appendix to his * Synopsis Mammalium.' As this name is incorrect and misleading, the species still requires a new name, in accordance with rule xi. of the Stricklandian code. 3. Description of a new Species of Simple Coral. By H. N. MOSELEY, F.R.S. [Received January 22, 1880.] DESMOPHYLLUM LAMPROTICHUM, sp. nov. Corallum straight, conical, the upper third expanding much more rapidly than the lower two thirds, moderately compressed. Wall both externally and internally tinged with a madder-red colour, excepting at the base and close to the margin of the calicle. Probably fixed by a narrow base (specimen broken at the base). External surface of the wall covered entirely with a very glistening and transparent epitheca, which is seen where broken towards the base to be present in several successive layers investing one another. Costae marked as fine striae over the entire outer surface; the primaries, secondaries, and tertiaries equally developed and more marked than those of lower order. Undulating accretion-lines present on the upper part of the wall. Calicle oval in outline, ratio of the axes about 86 to 100. Summits of the longer axis slightly higher than those of the shorter. Margin of the calicle nearly even, very slightly excavated opposite the intervals between the septa of the first three orders, and minutely denticulate in" correspondence with those of lower order. Septa regular, in six systems and five complete cycles. Primary and secondary septa equal, far exsert, with evenly rounded upper margins ; tertiaries much less exsert, with straighter free margins ; quaternaries and quinaries proportionally very small, the quinaries not extending to the margin of the calicle, the quaternaries reaching thus far only occasionally. Septa white, thin and delicate, slightly sinuous at the inner margins, with lines of granules on their faces. Fossa deep, gradually narrowing inferiorly, bounded by the margins of the primary and secondary septa. |