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Family ANTIPATHID.E Verrill. 

 Sub-family Antipathin^ Brook. 



Section 1. Indivisae. 



Genus Cirripathes Blainville. 



Cirripathes indica sp. n. 

 G. propinqua Brook. 

 C. spiralis Linn. 



Genus Stichopathes Brook. 



Stichopathes diversa (Brook) = Cirripathes (?) diversa Brook 



= (?) S. alcochi Cooper. 

 S. bisjrinosa nom. n. = Cirripathes (?) fiagellum Brook ; n. 



= Stichopathes flag ellum Eoule. 

 S. echimdata Brook. 

 S. gracilis Gray. 



Section 2. Ramosse. 

 Genus Ahtipat/tes Pallas. 



Antipatlies scdicoides sp. n. 



A. furcata Gray. 



A. tristis Duchassaing. 



A. lentipinna Brook. 



A. gracilis Gray. 



A. abics Brook. 



Genus Pteropatkes Brook. 

 Pteropathes simpsoni sp. n. 



Cirripathes indica sp. n. Plate V. fig. 9. 



See Cirripathes (?) Thomson and Simpson, Ceylon Pearl Oyster Eeport, 1905, 

 Supplementary Eeport 30, p. 95, fig. 8. 



A simple colony wound in a large circle, whose circumference is 

 77 cm. and diameter IS cm. The polyps are badly preserved, but 

 are distributed all round. In some parts they are crowded together. 

 The axis is black, 2 mm. in diameter, with a canal of • 5 mm, ; it 

 is covered with minute spines, distinctly papillose, all alike and 

 equal. They are arranged in no definite order, and from twenty- 

 four to thirty can be seen from one aspect. The specimen agrees 

 with the specimen which Thomson and Simpson described but did 

 not name. 



Locality. — Portuguese East Africa, Previously recorded from 

 Ceylon. 



