4 Wood-Mason — Systematic position of Nexo Zealand ksk^(^^'^. [Jan. 



Heterorrhina Roepstorfii, $ ?, from S. Andaman. 



Seterorrliina annectans, $ ? , from Sikkim. 



Mr. Wood-Mason also exhibited specimens of a new species of fresh- 

 water AstacidcB from New Zealand, for which he proposed the name AstU' 

 coides tridentatios from the presence of three spines on the inferior edge of 

 the rostrum, arranged and shaped like the teeth of a saw. He denied the 

 existence of any special relationship between the New Zealand species of 

 freshwater Astacidce and the marine genus Neplirops, from which they 

 differed, as indeed did all freshwater crayfish whatsoever, in having the last 

 abdominal somite freely movable upon the preceding, and in having, like 

 the species of the genus Astacoides, no appendages to the first and the 

 appendages to the second post-abdominal somite similarly constructed to 

 those of the following ones even in the male. Under these circumstances 

 and as the species referred to Faranephrops difi'ered less from those 

 of Astacoides than these latter did from one another, and as, moreover, 

 the latter name had priority,* he proposed, provisionally, to refer the New 

 Zealand species of Astacidce to it. 



In continuation of his readings and translations of Arabic and Persian 

 inscriptions, Mr. Blochmann exhibited the following from D i h 11, R o h t a s, 

 and S a h a s r a m. The Dihli rubbings belonged to the batch received from 

 Mr. Delmerick ; those from Eohtas were taken by Mr. J. D. Beglar and 

 were given to the Society, together with two rubbings from Sahasram, by 

 Major-General A. Cunningham, 0. S. I. 



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 1875), in the niche of the gate of the Dargah of Nizamuddin, south. Bu- 

 iaH metre. 



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 lenm which is full of bEss and beauty. 



* Astacoides, Guei-ia, ' Ecvuo Zoologique,' 1839, p. 109. 

 Taramphrops, White, Gray's Zool. Miscellany, 1842, p. 78 ; and Dieffenbach's 

 New Zealand, 1843, vol. II, p, 267. 



