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Keport on the Pennatulida of the Mergui Archipelago, collected 

 for the Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, by Dr. 

 John Anderson, F.R.S., Superintendent of the Museum. 

 By Prof. A. Milnes Maeshall, M.A., M.D., F.B.S., and 

 Gr. Heebeet Fowlee, B.A., Ph.D. (Communicated by 

 Dr. John Andeeson, F.K.S., P.L.S.) 



[Kead 3rd November, 1887.] 



(Plates XXII. & XXIII.) 



The collection of Pennatulida entrusted to us for examination 

 and report is an interesting one, for though it only includes 

 representatives of five genera and ten sp>ecies, of these latter two 

 are new, of two others only single specimens have hitherto been 

 described, and three others are as yet very imperfectly known. 



The zoological position of the genera and species is shown in 

 the folio wiug Table, abridged from the classification proposed by 

 Kolliker in his Report on the Pennatulida collected by H.M.S. 

 * Challenger ' # . The genera and species represented in the 

 Mergui collection are alone mentioned : — 



Order PENNATULIDA. 



Section I. PennatulejE. 

 Subsection 1. Tenniformes. 

 Family i. PteroeidiDjE. 



Pteroeides elegans, Herklots. 

 Pteroeides Lacazii, Kolliker. 

 Pteroeides chinense, Herklots. 

 Pteroeides Esperi, Herklots. 



Family ii. PennatulidjE. 



Subsection 2. Virgularieoe. 



Family i. VirgulariidjE. 



Yirgularia Eumphii, Kolliker. 

 Virgularia prolifera, sp. nov. 



Family ii. Stylatclid^e. 



Section II. S p i c a t m. 

 Section III. EenillejE. 



* Kolliker, Eeport on the Pennatulida, Zool. Chall. Exp. part ii. (1880), 

 pp. 33-35. 



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