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Family ANTIPATHID.E Yerrill. 

 Siib-faraily Antipathix-e Brook. 



Section 1. Indivisse. 



Genus Cirripathes Blainville. 



Cirripathes indica sp. n. 

 C. pro/diiqua Brook. 

 C. spiralis Linn. 



Genus SHchopathes Brook. 

 Stichopathcs (^z'rma. (Brook) = Cirnpatlics{^)diversa^ro6k 



■=. (?) S. alcocki Cooper. 

 ,S^. Uspiiiosa nom. n. = Cirripathes (1) Jlagellum Brook ; n. 



= Stichopathes flagellum Eoule. 

 S. echiimlata Brook. 

 S. gracilis Gray. 



Section 2. Ramosse. 



Genus Antipathes Pallas. 



Antipathes salicoides sp. n. 



A. fiircata Gray. 



A. tristis Duchassaing. 



A. lentipinna Brook. 



A. gracilis Gray. 



A. abies Brook. 



Genus Pteropathes Brook. 

 Pteropathes simpsoni sp. n. 



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



See C^■rrlpa<Aes (?) 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 18 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. 



