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There are at present no Antipatharia recorded from Mid Atlantic. Of those 

 included in the above list, the genera Stichopathes, Antipathes, Antipathella, and 

 Aphanipathes occur off Madeira, and one or two species having a bottle-brush type of 

 growth have been found in the Gulf of Guinea. Antipathella boscii has been 

 recorded by Lamouroux from South Carolina, and also off the west coast of France. 

 [Antipathes] arctica, Liitken, is apparently the only species which has been obtained 

 north of lat. 47° N.; it has been obtained on two occasions off the coast of Greenland. 

 The occurrence of Cirripathes spiralis (Linn.) off the coast of Norway appears to me 

 very doubtful, and requires confirmation before the species can be admitted into the 

 above list. A new genus (Pteropathes) is represented by a single species off St. Paul's 

 Rocks, near the Equator. None of the species included in the above list have as yet been 

 found outside the North Atlantic area. 



II. Mediterranean. 



Savaglia Idmarcki (Haime). 

 Leiopathes glaberrima (Esp.), M.-Edw. 

 Antipathes dichotoma, Pall. 

 ,, fceniculacea, Pall. 



Antipathes mediterranea, n. sp. 



,, virgata, Esp. 



Antipathella subpinnata (E. and S.). 

 Parantipathes larix (Esp.). 



The occurrence of Antipathes virgata, Esp., in the Mediterranean requires 

 confirmation. The species is at present included on the authority of Lamarck, on the 

 supposition that his Antipathes scoparia is synonymous with Antipathes virgata, Esp. 

 Antipathes fceniculacea, Pall., has not, so far as I am aware, been met with by 

 subsequent investigators in the Mediterranean. It is possible that Antipathes 

 fceniculum, Lamk., obtained off West Australia during the "Gazelle" Expedition, may 

 not be identical with the type of Pallas. Leiopathes glaberrima (Esp.), M.-Edw., 

 occurs in the West Indies as well as in the Mediterranean, and is probably the only 

 Mediterranean species which has been found elsewhere. I am not aware that any 

 uubranched species of Antipathidse have recently been obtained in the Mediterranean. 

 The occurrence of Cirripathes spiralis in this area, cited by Pallas on the authority of 

 Baker, requires confirmation. 



III. West Indies. 



Stichopathes pourtalesi, n. sp. 



,, occidentalis (Gray). 



,, desbonni (D. and M.). 



„ liitheni, n. sp. 



Leiopathes glaberrima (Esp.), M.-Edw. 



,, lenta (Pourt.). 



Antipathella atlantica (Gray). 

 „ gracilis (Gray). 



