394 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [November, 1913. : 
of the caverns themselves, although he makes an important 
contribution to the geology of the rocks containing them. 
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the interior of any of the caves. He visited those 
Moulmein and, in an interesting letter! published by the Ge 
gical Society of Italy (Bull. Soc. Geogr. Ital., 1888) dealt with 
their peculiarities and his collecting in them. The zoological 
results of his journey are published in the Ann. Civ. Mus. Stor. 
Nat., 1869-1897; many cave-haunting species are described b 
specialists in this important series of papers. 
e Batu caves near Kuala Lumpur in the Malay State of 
Selangor were investigated by Ridley at the request of t 
British Association, in whose Report for 1898 (pp. 572-582) 
published the results of his researches. Four caves are cate 
fully described and diagrams of two of them are given; the 
animals inhabiting their darker parts are recorded with notes 
on their habits. ee 
In 1899 the members of the Skeat Expedition to the 
Malay Peninsula visited the caves near Biserat in the Sia 
State of Jalor, which had not previously been invest 
In these they discovered several new cavern-haunting 
(described in Reports on the Expedition, mostly in the Pro 
igs of the Zoological Society of London, 1900-1903), © 
allied to those found by Fea in the Farm Caves. 
have been described in Fasciculi Malayenses (Liverpool, It 
1905), in the supplement (‘‘Itinerary’’) to which notes ee 
caves themselves will be found (pp. vi and xxv-xxViil). | 
The caves of the islands in the Talé Sap are describe 
Skeat in his report to the British Association (1900) also 
in his Fi in Siam. 
Bi 1 Fea’s more detailed account of his wanderings (‘ Quave 
wmaine et le Tribu Limitri’’) is unfortunately not available 
