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.
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