1888.] ON ECHINODERMS FROM TUTICORIN, MADRAS. 



383 



testaceis : capite sparse vage strigoso et punctulato : thorace 

 minus transversa, subrotundato, antice magis quam tintke angus- 

 tato, angulis posticis rectis sed apice obtusis, lateribus late 

 explanato-refiexis ; dorso undulatim hand acute striguloso : 

 elijtris elongato-oblongis, postice paullo latioribus, apice arcu- 

 atim truncatis, angulis acutis, subproductis, acute et profunde 

 subpunctulato-striatis, interstitiis parum convexis sparsissime 

 punctulatis, tertio pu/ictis setiferis qiuUuor, octavo postice vulde 

 dilatato et in dilutatione bistriato. Tarsi articulo quarto 

 valde bilobato, unguibus latis 10-11 pectinatis. Venter selifero- 

 punctulatus. Long. 14 millim. 2 . 

 Kiu-Kiang. One example. 



COLPODES SUPERLITA. 



C. amoense {Chaud.) simillima, sed differt elytris apice prope 

 suturam rotundatis anguloque suturali haud dentato. Long. 

 1 1 millim. 



Kiu-Kiang. Of similar elongated subdepressed form to the 

 widely-distributed x\siatic C. amcena, Chaud. (splendens, ^Nloraw.), but 

 differing in the form of the sublobular apex of the elytron, which in 

 the latter is truncated near the suture, with dentate sutural angle, 

 and, in C. superlita, simply rounded. The whole insect in both 

 species is ruddy testaceous, with the surface of the elytra {i. e. ex- 

 cluding basal folds and epipleurse) brassy green. 



4. Report on a Collection of Echinoderms made at Tuticorin, 

 Madras, by Mr. Edgar Thurston, C.M.Z.S., Superin- 

 tendent, Government Central Museum, Madras. By 

 Professor F. Jeffrey Bell, M.A., Sec. R. M.S. 



[Received June 5, 1888.] 



As the Society did me, last year, the honour to publish a report 

 on a collection of Echinoderms from the Andaman Islands', I hope 

 they will accept a notice of a collection from the opposite, or western, 

 side of the Sea of Bengal. The specimens were collected in the 

 course of last year by my friend Mr. Edgar Thurston, C.M.Z.S., 

 who has presented a large number of theiu to the British Museum. 



Before proceeding to give a list of this well-prepared series of 

 specimens, I may be allowed to remind the student of the recent 

 appearance of a memoir on the Echinoderm fauna of the Island 

 of Ceylon-, ftom which it is to be gathered that fifty-four species 

 of Echinoderms are known from Ceylon. Shortly after the distri- 

 bution of that memoir, my respected correspondent, M. de Loriol, 

 was kind enough to write and tell me of four other species of 



1 P Z. S. 1887, p. 139. 



- Scieutific Transactions ot the Eoyal Dublin Society (2), iii. p. 643 et seq. 



