Mancliestcr Meuioiis, Voi Ixi. (191 61, No. 1. 



I. South African Gorgonacea. 



By J. Stuart Thomson, M.Sc, Ph.D , F.R.S.E, 



[Lecturer and Soiiur Demonstrator in Zoology, in. the Victoria 

 University of Ma>ichcster). 



(Read N ovcinbcr i-/.t/i, KjiO. Received for publication^ Ueceniber 



iSthj IQ16.) 



This paper concludes my report on the South African 

 Gorgonacea, collected by the Government of the Cape of Good 

 Hope, during the years i8g8 to 1907. 



In 1900 and 1904, Hickson published two pai>ers on the 

 Alcyonaria of the Cape of Good Hope, m which he recorded 

 the following Gorgonacese : — Family Briareidae, Sub-family 

 Spongioderminfe — Spongioclerma verruca sum, Mobius. Family 

 Melitodidae — Melilodes clichotoma, Pallas; Wrightella coccinea, 

 Gray. Family Dasygorgiidas — Trichogorgia fiexilis, Hickson. 

 Family Isidie — Ceratoisisis rauiosa, Hickson. Family Muriceidas 

 — Villogorgia viaiiritiensis, Ridley; Acanthogorgia raniosa^ 

 V'errill. Family Plexaurida? — Eiinicella -papulosa, Esper; 

 Euplexaiira capensis, ? Verrill. Family Malacogorgiidae, Hick- 

 son; Malacogorgia cafcnsis, Hickson. Family Gorgoniida? — 

 Gorgonia flannnea, Ellis and Solander; G. capensis, Hickson; 

 G. albicans, KoHiker; Eiigorgia gilchristi, Hickson; Gorgonia 

 sp. (?), Gorgonia ? crista, Mobius. Family Gorgonellidae — 

 Gorgonella stricta, Lamarck; J/incella elongata, Pallas; ]un- 

 cella spiralis, Hickson. 



In 191 1 I described in a paper to the Zoological Society the 

 following species from South Africa: — Family Briareid,ae, Sub- 

 family Bnareinae — Suberia capensis, St. Thomson; Sub- family 

 Spongioderminas, Spongiodernia verrucosian, Mobius. Family 

 Melitodiclse — Melitodcs esperi, Wright and Stucler; Melitodcs 

 nodosa, Wright and Studer; Melitodcs clichotoma, Pallas. 

 Family Isid?e — Ceratoisis rainosa, Hickson. Family Muriceid,as 

 — Muriceides fnsca, St. Thomson; Acanthogorgia arniata, 

 Verrill. Family Plexauridae — Eiinicella fapillosa, Esper; 

 Psauvnogorgia pulchra, St. Thomson; Euplexaitra media, St. 

 Thomson. Family Primnoidas — Stachyodes gilchristi, St. 

 Thomson; Thouarella hicksoni, St. Thomson. Family Gor- 

 goniidre — Gorgonia capensis, Hickson; G. flammea, Ellis and 

 Solander. Family Gorgonellidae — Scirpearia jurcata emend, 

 Simpson; Scirpearia flagellinn emend, Simpson; Hicksonclla 

 spiralis, Simpson = J iincella spiralis, Hickson. 



My present paper contains descriptions or records of the 

 following 29 species, of which 11 are new: — ■ 



May 20th, igiy. 



