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CONTENTS 



OF THE NATURAL HISTOET PAET (PT. II.) OF THE 



JOURNAL OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL FOR 1881. 



No. 1, (issued April 30th, 1881.) Beport on a visit to the Nonqyanq 

 Lake, on the Burmese Frontier, February 1879. (With Pis. VIII— Xlllj. 

 — By S. E. Peal. On the Identification of certain Diamond Mines in 

 India, lohich were known to and worked ly the Ancients, especially those 

 which were visited by Tavernier. With a note on the history of the 

 Koh-i-nur. (With two Woodcuts). — By V. Ball, Geological Survey of 

 India. List of Mollusca from the Hills between Mari and Tandiani. — By 

 W. Theobald, Depy. Supdt. Geological Survey. -4 /«6*^ o/ Butterflies 

 taken in Sikkim in October 1880, with notes on habits, Sfc. — By Lionel dk 

 Nice'yille. List of Farthquakes recorded in Assam during the years 

 1879 and 1880. — By the Government of Assam. (Title, Contents, and 

 Index to Vol. XL IX, 1880.) 



No. 2, (issued July 30th, 1881). On the relations of cloud and rain- 

 fall to temperature in India, and on the opposite variations of density in the 

 higher and lower atmospheric strata. — By H. F. Blanford, Meteorological 

 Beport er to the Government of India, Description of a rain-gauge loith 

 evapometer for remote and secluded stations. (With 1^1. XV). — By H. F. 

 Blanford, Meteorological Beporter to the Government of India. On some 

 Lepidopterous Insects belonging to the Bhopalocerous Genera Euripus and 

 Penthema from India and Burmah. (With Pis. Ill and IV). — By 

 J. Wood-Mason, Deputy Superintendent, Indian 3Iuseum, Calcutta. On 

 the Voles (Arvicolse) of the Himalayans, Tibet, and Afghanistan. (With 

 Plates I and 11). — By W. T. Blanford. On Myospalax fuscicapillus, 

 Blyth. (With part of PI. II).— i^y W. T. Blanford. 



No 3, (issued October 22nd, 1881). Neio or little known Mollusca of 

 the Indo-Malayan Fauna. (With Plates V, VI, Vll), — By Geoffrey 

 Neville, A sketch of the history of the fossils of the Indian Gondtvdjia 

 system. — By Ottokar Feistmantel, Falceontologist, Geological Survey 

 of India. Additional note on the identification of the ancient diamond 

 mines visited by Tavernier. — By V. Ball. List of Diurnal Lepidoptera 

 inhabiting the Nicobar Islands. (With a Woodcut). — By J. Wood- 

 Mason, Deputy Superintendent, Indian Museum, Calcutta, and Lionel de 

 Nice'yille (With a Woodcut). 



No 4, (issued December 21st, 1881). JVote on an apparently unde- 

 scribed Varanus from Tenasserim and on other KeptiUa and Amphibia. 

 (With Plate XVI). — By W. T. Blanford. Second List of Ehopalacerous 

 Lepidoptera from Fort Blair, Andaman Islands, with Descriptions of, and 

 Notes on, new and little-known Species and Varieties. (With Plate XIV 

 and part of Plate IV). — By J. Wood-Mason, Deputy Superintendent, 

 Indian Museum, Calcutta, and Lionel de Nice'yille. Description of a 

 new Species of Kostellaria, from the Bay of Bengal. — By Geoffrey 

 Neyill. a numerical Estimate of the species of Animals chiefly Land 

 and Fresh-water hitherto recorded from British Isles and its Dependencies, 

 — By W. T. Blanford. Description of a new species of the Lepidopterous 

 Genus Euripus from North- Eastern India, (With part of Plate IV). 

 — By J. Wuod-Mason, Deputy Superintendent, Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



