EDITORIAL NOTE. 



The Prefaces to the ' Investigator ' Reports issued last year explain how the 

 ' Investigator ' collections came to be made and to find their way to the Indian 

 Museum. 



The present Fasciculus contains the figures of the Shallow-water Ophiuroidea 

 described by Dr. Koehler in the Bulletiii Scientifique dp. la France et de la Belgique 

 and in the ^Bulletin de la Societe Zoologique de France, for 1898. The figures form 

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

 Ophiuroidea published last year. 



I have, in behalf of the Trustees of the Museum and of the Naturalists of the 

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

 voluntary undertaking to a happy issue. 



A. Alcock, Major, I.M.8., 

 Superintendent of the Indian Museum. 



