

CONTENTS 



OF THE NATURAL HISTORY PART (PT. II.) OF THE 



JOURNAL OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL FOR 1S81. 



No. 1, (issued April 30th, 1881.) Report on a visit to tJie Nongyang 

 Lalce, on the Burmese Frontier, February 1879. (With Pis. VIII— XIII). 

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

 India, which were Tcnown to and worked hy the Ancients, especially those 

 which were visited hy Tavernier, With a note on the history of the 

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

 India. List of MoUusca from the Hills hetioeen Mari and Tandiani. — By 

 W. Theobald, Bepy, Supdt. Geological Survey. A list q/ Butterflies 

 tahen in SiJcJcim in October 1880, with notes on habits, Sfc. — By Lionel de 

 NiceVille. List of Farthq^ualces recorded in Assam during the years 

 1879 and 1880. — By the Gover:h^ment of Assam. (Title, Contents, and 

 Index to Vol. XLIX, 1880.) 



No. 2, (issued July 30th, 1881). (Jn 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 

 Reporter to the Government of India, Bescription of a rain-gauge loith 

 evapometer for remote, and secluded stations. (With PI. XV). — By H. F. 

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

 Lepidopterous Insects belonging to the Rhopalocjj^^ous Genera Euripus and 

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

 J. Wood-Mason, Deputy Superintendent, Indian Museum, Calcutta. On 

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

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

 Blyth. (With part of PI. 11).— By W. T. Blanford. 



No. 3, (issued Octoher 22nd, 1881). New or little Icnown MoUusca of 

 the IndO'Malayan Fauna. (With Plates V, VI, Nil). — By Geoffrey 

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

 system. — By Ottokar Feistmantel, Palceontologist, 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'ville (With a Woodcut). 



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

 scribed Varanus from Tenasserim and on other Keptilia and Amphibia. 

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

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

 Notes on, neio and little-hnown Species and Varieties. (With Plate XIV 

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

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

 new Species of Rostellaria, 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-Fastern India. (With part of Plate IV). 

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



