12 Messrs. J. Wood-Mason and A. Alcock on 



Fathom. 1 '. 



26. Parascombrops pellucidus, Alcock . . Bay of Bengal. 98-102 



27. Centropristis invent igatoris, sp. n. 

 (A.) 



28. Uranoscopus crassicej^s, sp. n. (A.) 



29. Triffla hemisticta, Schlegel 



30. Gobius cometes, sp. n. (A.) 



31. Cullionymus carebares, sp. n. (A.) 



32. Scianectes mncrophthahnus, Alcock 



33. Cynoglossus Carpenteri, Alcock . . 



34. Scopelus pterotus, sp. n. (A.) .... 



35. , sp 



Phylum ECHINODERMA. 

 Class ASTEROIDEA. 



Asteroidea were trawled on three occasions, and thirty-eight 

 individuals of nine species and as many genera were collected. 

 Of these thirty-two specimens, of five species and genera, were 

 obtained on a clean and comparatively hard bottom of coarse 

 coral-sand off the west coast of the Andaman Islands, in 240 

 to 220 fathoms, while the six remaining specimens, of four 

 species and genera, came from 740 to 1000 fathoms in the 

 Laccadive Sea, where the bottom consists principally of coral- 

 mud. Of nine fairly successful hauls in water of 100 to 1500 

 fathoms in the northern part of the Bay of Bengal, where the 

 bottom consists of soft mud (terrigenous deposit), not one 

 produced a starfish. 



There is little doubt that the investigation by a specialist 

 of this collection, which is but a small part of the accumu- 

 lations of several years' trawling in Indian waters, would 

 bring to light some new forms. 



We have here attempted nothing more than to roughly 

 indicate the affinities of the forms most recently acquired. 



Order P H A N E R O Z ON I A. 



Family Archasteridae. 



1. Pontaster, Sladen. 



Three fairly perfect specimens of a species very near to P. 

 venustus, Sladen, were taken in the Laccadive Sea, off the 

 Elicapeni shoal, in 1000 fathoms. In our specimens the 

 supero-marginal plates are more numerous and the inner series 

 of spinelets on the infero-marginal plates is comparatively 



