376 Dr. T. Wright on new Species of Echinodermata 



are not frequent visitors. A Paradoxurus typus just caught was 

 brought to me for sale ; the Herpestes griseus, or common large 

 Mungoose, is sometimes found ; the Canis aureus is very com- 

 mon, and in the park of Barrackpooi*e I have seen this animal 

 (the Jackal of India) allow carriages to pass within a few yards 

 of it, whilst they composedly sat down ; the common Fox, Vul- 

 pes bengalensis, is also found. 



Amongst the Rats I obtained Mus indicus, M. flavescens, M. 

 nemoralis, M. decumanus and M. manei ; also Sorex murinus, and 

 another Sorex which may prove a new species or a very dark 

 variety of the former ; the Sciurus palmarum is very common. 



Amongst the Bats I obtained Nycticejus castaneus, N. luteiis, 

 Rhinolophus lepidus, Taphozaus lonyimanus, Megaderma lyra, Cy- 

 nopterus marginatus and Pteropus edivard^ii, all very common ; 

 this latter is the Flying Fox of India. Thus ends my list of mam- 

 malia found at Barrackpoore : that several other species exist 

 there can be no doubt, yet as I failed to obtain them I refrain 

 from mentioning them. I must not omit mentioning that I 

 received every assistance from my friends E. Blyth, Esq., and 

 Jas. Curr, Esq., during my stay at Barrackpoore, to whom 1 offer 

 my best thanks. 



XXXII. — Contributions to the Palaontology of Gloucestershire : — A 

 description, with Figures, of some new Species of Echinodermata 

 from the Lias and Oolites. By Tiiqmas Wright, M.D. &c.. 

 Professor of the Natural Sciences in the Cheltenham Grammar 

 School. 



[Concluded from p. 324.] 



Ophioderma Gaveyi, Wright, 1852. PI. XIII. fig. 1 a-c. 



Diagnosis. — Disc large, upper surface not exposed, under surface 

 with five pairs of heartshaped plates, above which the five rays 

 pass ; the median scutal plates of the rays form a ridge in the 

 centre of each pair of plates ; the mouth-opening is sur- 

 rounded with five pairs of very prominent toothlike processes ; 

 the rays are slender and gently tapering ; the central scutal 

 plates on the dorsal and ventral surfaces of the rays are 

 narrow, those on the ventral surface resemble the bodies of 

 small vertebrae deprived of their neural elements. 



Transverse diameter of the body-disc 1 inch and y^ths, trans- 

 verse diameter of the rays at their junction with the disc nearly 

 y'^ths of an inch. 



Description. — This Sea-star must have been rather abundant 

 in the Liasic sea ; we have seen many fine specimens of it, and 



