174! ExTiihition of forms of KYi\iYo^odi?i new to India. [AtrairsT, 



Six " dambs" were also examined at a place called Jati, 6 miles from 

 Guadar, three of these contained human bones alone, others contained 

 besides bones, pottery, iron, &c. 



Captain Mockler thinks that in all these dambs the bones were collect- 

 ed after the body had decomposed, and were placed either in an earthen 

 pot or on the gronnd, and that an earthen water pot and sometimes other 

 pots, perhaps containing food, were added, as well as ornaments and weapons. 

 No signs of cremation appeared, except at Sutkagen Dor, and at that place 

 there are no dambs and the houses were probably made by a different peo- 

 ple. Caj)tain Mockler concludes by saying that since his attention was 

 first drawn to these antiquities, which have never before been noticed, he 

 has heard of their occurrence in many parts of the country, and that he 

 hopes to continue his researches into these and other remains. 



Mr. BiiANroED added that the account appeared to indicate remains of 

 two different ages, as in the sets of buildings at Sutkagen Dor flint knives 

 were found and but little metal, whilst remains of iron imjDlements and 

 a Greek coin were found in those at Damba Koh. The remains of Cyclo- 

 pean masonry occur throughout Baluchistan, and the walls appear chiefly 

 to have been built in order to form dams to reservoirs of water. The vitri- 

 fied bricks mentioned are found at all old cities in Sind such as Ai-iir and 

 Braminabad. 



Mr. WooD-MASOisr exhibited specimens of a species of lapyx which he 

 had recently found amongst the decaying leaves and fungi at the foot of a 

 bamboo-clump in his own garden at Calcutta, and said — 



" This remarkable form of Arthropoda, which has not hitherto been 

 met with in India or, indeed, in any part of Asia, is of the greatest interest 

 as belonging to a group the members of which are considered by Sir John 

 Lubbock to be the living representatives of a primaeval form from which 

 the great orders of insects have all originated. Discovered many years ago 

 in Algeria by M. Lucas, the eminent French entomologist, lapyx solifugus, 

 the type of the group, was only made known to science in 1864, when Mr. 

 Haliday described and figured it in the ' Transactions of the Linnean Society 

 of London' ; in the following year it was submitted to a more careful exam- 

 ination by Meinert, who detected a pair of rudimentary appendages on each 

 of the seven anterior segments of the abdomen, just as in its allies, Campo- 

 dea and Nicoletia, in which latter, however, all the abdominal segments ap- 

 pear to be thus furnished. Four species of the genus have already been de- 

 scribed, viz., lapyx solifugus, Haliday, from Algeria, Switzerland, and various 

 parts of Italy ; I. Saussurii, Humbert, from Mexico ; I, gigas, Brauer, from 

 Cyprus ; and I. Wollastoni, Westwood, from Madeira and an adjacent is- 

 land. A fifth has now been discovered thoixsands of miles from the nearest 



