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war under Daud Khan, Aurangzeb’s general, are still remembered 
by the inhabitants of the district. Mr, Forbes’s details prove 
in a most striking manner the reliability of our Muhammadan his- 
torians ; the only discrepancies refer to the relationship of several 
Chero chiefs. His geographical remarks form a valuable commen- 
tary on several passages in the Pddishéhndémah and the ’Alamgir- 
ndmah, and correct, in one case, a bad reading of the Society’s 
edition of the latter work. 
2. NorEs ON AND TRANSLATION OF TWO COPPER-PLATE INSCRIPTIONS 
FRoM CHarpassA, SineBuu’M, dy PRATAPACHANDRA GHOSHA. 
(Abstract.) 
The copper tablets were discovered buried in the ground in the 
village of Bamanghati. ‘They record grants of several vil- 
lages Bamanvasti, &c., to two brahmans by two princes of the Ma- 
yurbhanj family, a family still extant in the Katak Tributary 
Mahalls, The plates are each surmounted by a seal, bearing the 
name of the donor, and signs such as the bull, the trident, and the 
erescent moon. Rajabhanja, the son of Ranabhanja, is the donor 
mentioned in one tablet and Ranabhanja is the donor of the other. 
The tablet of Ranabhanja bears a date which is supposed to be 56 
Samvat. 
38. On Two Saurian GENERA EuRYLEPIS AND PLocEDERMA, BiytH, 
WITH A DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF Mazouta, F'1rzingEr,— 
by Dr. ANDERSON, Corator, InpIAN Museum. 
In comparing some of the Reptiles in the Indian Museum with 
the catalogue of that Section prepared by Mr. Theobald for this 
Society, I have lately made two identifications which it is desirable 
should be put on record, as they refer to two of Mr. Blyth’s genera 
which have hitherto escaped the notice of Herpetologists. I refer 
to the two genera Kurylepis and Plocederma. In Mr. Theobald’s 
Catalogue, no mention is made of either of them, and I can only ac- 
count for their having been overlooked by the circumstance that 
they were originally published as foot notes to two consecutive 
pages of the Journal of this Society for 1854.* The species illus- 
* J. A. 8. Beng. vol. xxiii, pp. 738-739. 
