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1585, when Madhii Singh was zaminddr of Kokrah, and to the 
second invasion, in 1616, under Ibrahim Khin Fath-jang, governor 
of Bihar, who defeated Rajah Durjun Sal. There are also some 
notes on the diamond washings as then carried on in the River 
Sank. 
Regarding Pachet we havea short notice of Rajah Bir Narain, 
who died in A. H. 1042-43, or A. D. 1632-38. 
The extracts regarding Palamau refer to the invasions, in A. D. 
1641 and 1648, by Shiistah Khan and Zabardast Khan, when 
Pratib, son of Balbhadr, the Chero, and Tij Rai, his usurping 
uncle, were Rajahs. Pratéb was afterwards reinstated, and was 
still alive in 1647. The jyama’ of Palimau was then R. 250,000, 
and the peshkash which the Rajahs had to pay to Shahjahan’s trea- 
sury, was fixed atalac of rupees. The ’AlJamgirndmah says that the 
the Rajahs did not regularly pay the peshkash; and in 1661, the 
fourth year of Aurangzib’s reign, Daid Khan, governor of Bihar, 
was ordered to invade the.district. Of this expedition we have am- 
ple details. The result was that the forts Deokan, Kot’hi, and 
Kundah, were occupied, and Pal4mau itself was taken by storm on 
the 14th December, 1661, when the then Rajah, whose name is not 
given, had to submit to the appointment of an imperial Faujdar. 
The first Faujdér, Mankli Khan, remained at Palinfiu for a few 
years. 
IV.—On soME NEW sPECIES oF Persran Bats, by G. E. Dosson, 
B. A., M. B. Assistant Surgeon H. U.’s British Forces. 
(Abstract.) 
Mr. Dobson introduced to the notice of the Society two new 
species of Persian bats. One of the species is the type of a new 
genus of 2hinolophine bats, and its discovery leads to the necessity 
of forming for its reception a new group, as the characters given 
by Dr. Gray of the four groups into which he divides the Aino- 
lophide* do not admit of its being placed in any one of them. 
The nasal appendages are very complicated, the anterior por- 
tion of the nose-leaf is horse-shoe shaped, consisting of two 
* Proc, Zool. Soc. 1866, 
