BALUCHISTAN NAT. HIST. SOU. PROCEEDINGS. 945 



Read letter, dated the 21st August 1908, from Captain A. D. Gr. Ramsay 

 forwarding a donation of Rs. 30 to the funds of the Society. The Hon'ble 

 President remarked that the time had not yet come to call on members of the 

 Society for subscriptions or donations, but he urged on those who had not yet 

 done so to become regular members of the Bombay Natural History Society, 

 which charged an entrance fee of only Rs. 10 and an annual subscription of 

 Rs. 15. 



2. Read letter, dated the 21st August 1908, from Lieut. L. Lang, forwarding 

 a specimen of the Tick which infested the barracks at Kalat, and had caused 

 their abandonment, and another of a variety of Crustacea, found also in the 

 same place. The Hon'ble President drew attention to the Tick, and pointed 

 out that not only did this small insect cause much loss to Government by 

 making buildings uninhabitable, but that its bite was well known to produce 

 fever in human beings. Dr. Holland confirmed this and remarked that frontier 

 sores had in some instances also been traced to the same cause. 



3. The Hon'ble President then placed before the meeting a specimen of a 

 snake (Zamenis floruleuta), obtained in Quetta in August 1907, which he had sent. 

 to Colonel Wall for favour of identification. This snake was now referred to by 

 Colonel Wall in the last issue of the Bombay Natural History Society's Journal. 

 The Hon'ble President remarked that this variety of snake was to be found in 

 Egypt but had never been before reported in India. The Horned Viper 

 (Eristicophis McAIahonii) found by him on the Baluch -Afghan Boundary, 

 Commission, the Cerastes Viper recently found in the Gomal, and other reptiles 

 belonging to Baluchistan proved the close relationship which existed between 

 the Fauna of Egypt and Northern Africa and of this part of Asia. 



