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Show 1868.] ON ECHINODERMS FROM TUTICORIN, MADRAS. 383 testaceis : capite sparse vage strigoso et punctulato : thorace minus transverso, subrotundato, antice magis quam entice angustato, angulis posticis rectis sed apice obtusis, lateribus late explanato-reflexis; dorso undulatim haud acute striguloso : elgtris elongato-oblongis, postice paullo latioribus, apice arcu-atim truncatis, angulis acutis, subproductis, acute et profunde subpunctulato-striatis, interstitiis parum convexis sparsissime punctulatis, tertio punctis setiferis quatuor, octavo postice dilatato et in dilatatione bistriato. Tarsi articulo quarto valde bilobato, unguibus latis 10-11 pectinatis. Venter setifero-punctulatus. Long. 14 millim. 2 • Kiu-Kiang. One example. COLPODES SUPERLITA. C. amcenae (Chaud.) simillima, sed differt elytris apice prope suturam rotundatis anguloque suturali haud, dentato. Long. 11 millim. Kiu-Kiang. Of similar elongated subdepressed form to the widely-distributed Asiatic C. amcena, Chaud. (splendens, Moraw.), 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. excluding basal folds and epipleurae) brassy green. 4. Report on a Collection of Echinoderms made at Tuticorin, Madras, by M r . Edgar Thurston, C.M.Z.S., Superintendent, Government Central Museum, Madras. By Professor F. J E F F R E Y B E L L , 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 Islands1, 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 m y friend Mr. Edgar Thurston, C.M.Z.S., who has presented a large number of them 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 Ceylon2, from which it is to be gathered that fifty-four species of Echinoderms are known from Ceylon. Shortly after the distribution of that memoir, m y 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. 2 Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society (2), Hi. p. 643 et seq. |