ECHINOPERMA. 145 



ASTERINID/E. 

 Asterina cepheus (M. & T.). 



Station LXVL, oft' Mutwal Island, 10 to 35 fathoms; off Galle, in deep water; 

 on Navakaddu Paar, April 2nd, 1902; Station IV., off Karkopani, 6 to 9 fathoms; 

 Station XLL, 12 miles south of Galle, 100 fathoms. 



LINCKIID.E. 

 Ophidiaster cylindricus (Lamk.). 

 Station XXXVIII., outside Watering Point, Galle, 9 to 22 fathoms. 



Ophidiaster helicostichus (Sladen). 



What may be the young of this little-known species was taken south of Galle, in 

 deep water. 



Linckia multiforis (Lamk.). 



Specimens (including " comet forms") were obtained from Back Bay, Trincomalee ; 

 also at Station XXIII., 6 fathoms. 



Linckia laevigata (Gmel.). 



On the pearl banks in the Gulf of Manaar ; and at Station XIV., west of Cheval 

 Paar, 8 fathoms. 



Linckia pacifica, var. diplax (teste Siaden). 

 Muttuvaratu Paar, Gulf of Manaar. 



Nardoa tuberculata, Gray. 

 From lagoon inside the reef, Galle; and at Station LX., outside Muttuvaratu 

 Paar, 20 to 30 fathoms. 



Metrodira subulata (Gray). 

 Station XLIIL, west of Kaltura, 22 fathoms. 



PTEEASTERID^:. 

 Retaster cribrosus, v. Mart. 

 At Station XLIL, between Galle and Barbery n, 40 fathoms, one specimen (see 

 Professor Bell's Notes, below). 



ECHINASTERID^E. 

 Echinaster purpureus (Gray). 

 Station LXIV., south-east of Modragam Paar, 5 fathoms ; Station VI., Muttuvaratu 

 Paar, 6 to 9 fathoms; Station XIV., west of Cheval Paar, 8 fathoms; and other 

 localities on the pearl banks, Gulf of Manaar. 



