VKYLON PEARL OYSTER FISHERIES 1905 SUPPLEMENTARY REPORTS, No. XXV.] 



REPORT 



ON THE 



ANTIPATHARIA 



COLLECTED BY 



Professor HERDMAN, at CEYLON, in 1902. 



BY 



Professor J. ARTHUR THOMSON, M.A., University of Aberdeen.. 



AND 



JAMES J. SIMPSON, M.A., University of Aberdeen. 



[With ONE PLATE.] 



The collection of Ceylonese Antipatharians here reported on was made in 1902 from 

 the Pearl Oyster Banks in the Gulf of Manaar, by dredging within the 100-fathom 

 line off Trincomalee and off Galle. The localities are more precisely referred to in 

 Professor Herdman's " Narrative" in Part I. of the General Report (1903). 



The collection is a small one, including thirteen species, but nine at least of these 

 seem to be new. The list is as follows : 



Family: ANTIPATHID.E. 

 Sub-family: CIRRIPATHIN^. 



*Cirripathes (?), n. sp. 



Sub-family : ANTIPATHIN^. 



* Antipathes gallensis, n. sp. Stichopathes gracilis, Gray, var. spiralis, nov. 



* Antipathes gracilis, n. sp.t Stichopathes echinulata, Brook. 

 Antipathes abies, Gray. * Antipathella rugosa, n. sp. 



* Stichopathes ccylonemis, n. sp. * Antipathella elegans, a. sp. 



*Stichopathes contorta, n. sp. * Antipathella irregularis, a. sp. 



* Stichopathes papillosa, n. sp. * Antipathella ceylonensis, n. sp. 



* Those marked with an asterisk are reported as new. 



t Non Antipathes gracilis, Gray (1860) = Antipathella gracilis, Gray; 



Non Antipathes gracilis, Koch (1889) = Antipathes mediierranea, Brook (1889). 



