1'20 V. Ball — On an Ancient KitcTien-Miilden near CttUach. [June, 



forest, the larger trees of which are covered with thick creepers ; and the 

 ravines as filled with a luxuriant growth of bamboos, canes, screw-pines, tree- 

 ferns, plantains, etc. The author expresses his regret at not having been 

 enabled to penetrate beyond this region of dense, sombre forest into the 

 higher and unknown ranges beyond, where, he feels confident, his success in 

 all branches of zoology would have been far greater. Finally, he expresses 

 his indebtedness to the ofiicers of the sm'vey and of the force, especially, 

 to General StafEord, for assistance rendered and for the lively interest taken 

 by them in the work ; and to Arthur Viscount Walden, for kind assistance 

 in the identification and nomencature of the species. 



The jDaper -will be jDubhshed in the forthcoming number of the Journal, 

 Part II, with coloui-ed illustrations of the two new species, Actimora Dafia- 

 ensis and SiitJwra Daflaensis. 



Mr. W. T. Blajstfoed said — 



The paper by Major Godwin- Austen which has just been read is of 

 great interest, as the author is the first natm'alist who has had an opportu- 

 nity of investigating the zoology of the Himalayas east of Bhutan. It is 

 a subject for great regret that he was not permitted to penetrate fm'ther 

 into the country. It is impossible for us to tell what reasons may have 

 existed for the singularly small results in the way of exploration which have 

 resulted from most expeditions of late years, doubtless there were reasons, 

 but it is most unfortunate that in the Dafla expedition, as in that to 

 Yarkand, so Httle was done with the admu'able means which existed. At 

 the close of the Dafla campaign, there was an overwhelming force in the 

 country, there were ample means of carriage, and there were thoroughly 

 competent officers. Major Godwin-Austen himself being an admirable 

 example, who only asked to be allowed to go on, but nothing was done, and 

 to this day peaks and mountain ranges within view of our own possessions 

 are as thoroughly unexplored as if they were at the South Pole. 



4. On an Ancient KitcJien-Midden at Chaudioar, near Guttach. — 

 By V. Ball, Esq., M. A., F. G. S. 



It is more with the object of j)utting on record a few facts in refer- 

 ence to a discovery recently made on the site of the old city of Chaudwar, 

 and of thus anticij)ating the possible promulgation of an erroneous view 

 which the discovery at first gave rise to, than because the facts are of them- 

 selves of much importance, that this note has been written. 



On my arrival in Cuttack last November I was informed that a block 

 of laterite, raised in the quarries at Chaudwar, had been forwarded to the 

 irrigation works at Marsagai where it was observed to contain fragments 

 of pottery and to be, as a building stone, unsuited for the pui'pose to which 

 it had been destined. Subsequently it was removed by Mr. Macmillan, the 



