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l-fauna of 



Pocillopora brevicomis, Lamarck. 



Pocillopora brevicornis, Lamarck, Hist. Anim. s. Vert. (2) ii. p. 443. 



Appears to be common" at Ceylon. It is also found at the 

 Sandwich Islands and Fiji Islands according to Milne-Edwards 

 and Haime, who also record it from Ceylon ; Verrill also 

 records it from Ceylon. 



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* Pocillopora elongata, Dana. 



Pocillopora elonyata, Verrill, Proc. Essex Institute, vi. p. 59. 



Recorded by Verrill from Ceylon. 



Suborder Antipatiiaria. 

 Cirrhipathes spiralis, Pallas. 



Antipathes spiralis, Pallas, Elench. Zooph. p. 217. 



This is a common Indian-Ocean species. Pallas's descrip- 

 tion is extremely accurate and renders identification easy. 

 This is not the species so named by Pourtales (Bull. Mus. 

 Comp. Zool. Cambridge, Massachusetts, vi. p. 114) from 

 the West Indies ; it probably does not occur in the Atlantic 

 region. 



Cirrhipathes anguina, Dana. 



Antipathes anffuina, Dana, Zooph. U.S. Expl. Exp. p. 576, pi. lri. fig. 1. 



A species quite distinct from the above, differing in the 

 only slightly twisted condition of the axis and in the arrange- 

 ment of the spines of the surface: these are longitudinally 

 arranged in A. spiralis, with minute ones placed between the 

 larger sharp ones; in A. angiiina there is an obscure spiral 

 arrangement and the smaller spines are wanting. Also from 

 Red Sea (Klunzinger) , Fiji Islands [Dana). 



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Hydradendrium spinosum, Carter. 



Hydradendrium spinoaum, Carter, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) v. p. 454, 

 pi. xix. fig. 8. 



This was described by Mr. Carter as allied to the Hydroid 

 genus Hydr actinia ; it appears, however, to belong to the 

 Antipatharia, a view to -which Mr. Carter . himself seems in- 

 clined^ in a paper written subsequently to the original one 

 {op. cit vL p. 301), mentioning Antipathes ulex, Ellis, as 

 apparently identical in form with Hydradendrium. 



Obtained in 65 fathoms in the Gulf of Manaar {Carter). 



Possibly identical with the following. 











