1875] G. E. Dobson— On Chiroptera of tie KMsia Sills. 85 



The following papers wei*e read — 

 1. Postscript to the List of Chiroptera inhabiting the Khdsia Sills, — * 

 by Gt. E. Dobson, B. A., M. B. 



BaEBASTELLTTS DAEGELINENSTS. 



JPlecotus dargelinensis, Hodgson, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1855, p. 103. 



Plecotus auritus, Blyth, Cat. Mammal. Mus. As. Soc. Bengal, p. 36, 

 No. 114. 



This species, which, on a superficial examination appears not to differ 

 from the European form, may be readily distinguished from that species by 

 the absence of the small, but very distinct, lobe, which in B. communis, 

 projects from the outer margin of the ear at a point corresponding to the 

 junction of the upper and middle thirds, and by the conspicuously larger 

 ears which, laid forward, extend beyond the extremity of the muzzle. 



Plecotus homochrous, Hodgs., a species belonging to a genus closely 

 allied to Barbastellus may also be expected to occur in the Khasia Ranges. 

 It it distinguished from P. auritus, S. of Europe by its larger ears, by the 

 proportionately much shorter thumb, and by the tail being wholly contained 

 within the interfemoral membrane, not projecting for 0"'15 inch., as in the 

 European species. 



2. On a Coin of Kundnda (340 B. G.) found at Kamdl.f 



By Babtj Ra'jendeala'la Mitea'. 



(Abstract!) 



The mintage of which the coin submitted to the meeting was a speci- 

 men was well known to numismatists ; but the specimen was a remarkably 

 perfect one, and it enabled the author to express a decided opinion on the 

 reading of two of the words in its legend. The first word was the name of 

 the king, which Mr. Thomas, in his last essay on the subject in the 1st 

 Volume of the Royal Asiatic Society's Journal (N. S.), had read Krananda. 

 This has been questioned and the author has sided with Prinsep and Cun- 

 ningham in accepting it as Kiinanda. The second word has hitherto been 

 read amoghubhratasa, but the letters on the coin are perfectly clear, and they 

 yield the word amoghabhatisa which is obviously a compound of amogha 

 " unflinching" and bhalcti " faith," referring to the ' unflinching faith' of 

 the sovereign who had evinced it by delineating half a dozen symbols of the 

 Buddhist religion on his coin. The old interpretation was " brother of 

 Amogha," but as no king could feel himself flattered by saying that he was 

 the brother of so and so, that is suspected not to be the right one. The 

 presence of an i over the t in bhati is also against that supposition, inasmuch 

 as the Sanskrit bhrdtri always changed into bhrdta or bhdtd or into bhrd- 

 tara never bhdti in the Areano-Pali, and there is no reason to suppose that 

 the reading of the coin is an exceptional one. 



* Vide Journal As. Soc. B. Tart II, No. 4, 1874. 

 f Received from the Rev. Mr, Carleton of Kmnal. 



