EDITORIAL NOTE. 



The Préfaces to tlie ' lavestigator ' Reports issued last year explain liow tlie 

 ' Investigator ' collections came to be made and to fiud their way to tlie Indian 

 Muséum. 



Tlie présent Fasciculus contains the figures of tlie Shallow-water Ophiuroidea 

 described by Dr. Koeliler in the Bulletin Scientifique de la France et de la Belqiqne 

 and in the Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France, for 1898. The fio'ures form 

 eight plates, which are numbered XV-XXII in continuation of the plates of Deep-sea 

 Ophiuroidea published last year. 



I hâve, in behalf of the Trustées of the Muséum and of the Naturahsts of the 

 ' Investigator,' to record my best thanks to Dr. Koehler for having carried an onerous 

 voluntary undertaking to a happy issue. 



A. AlcocKj Major, I.M.S., 

 Supei'intendent of the Indian Muséum. 



