CONTENTS 



OP THE NATUEAL HISTOET PAET (PT. II.) OF THE 



JOURNAL OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY tiF BENGAL FOR 1876. 



No. 1, (issued June 26th, 1876). On tJie General Theory of Duplex 

 Telegraphy (with a Woodcut). — By Louis Schwen^dler. — On some 

 Lizards from Sind, with Descriptions of new Species of Ptyodactjlus, Steno- 

 dactylus, «^ic? Trapelus (Pis. land II). — By W. T. Blanfoed. — On certain 

 protracted Irregularities of Atmospheric Pressure in the Indian Monsoon 

 region^ and their Relation to Variations of the local Bainfall. — By H. F. 

 Blanfoed. — Description of a new Species of Phasmidse (PI. XI). — By J. 

 Wood-Mason. — Description of Felis Shawiana, a new Lyncine Cat from 

 Uastern Turkestan. — By W. T. Blanfoed. — Description of a new Species 

 of ^atoniidse. — By J. Wood-Mason. 



No. 2, (issued August 18th, 1876). An Account of JEocperiments made 

 in 1875 and 1876 in various parts of India, for the purpose of comparing 

 the ohserved Temperature of the Dew-point with that computed from the 

 Psychrometer ly different methods of Reduction. — By H. F. Blanfoed. — 

 List of the Birds collected on the Expedition into the Dafia Dills, Assam, 

 together loith those ohtained in the adjacent Darrang Terai (Pis. Ill and 

 IV). — By H. H. Godwin- Austen. — On the Physical Geography of the 

 Great Indian Desert with especial reference to the former Existence of the 

 Sea in the Indus Valley ; and on the Origin and Mode of Formation of the 

 Sand-hills. — By W. T. Blanfoed. 



No. 3, (issued November 14th, 1876). A STcetch of the Vegetation of 

 the Nicohar Islands (Pis. XII and XIII). — By S. KuEz. — Description of 

 Oolunda EUioti from Sind (PI. X).—By W. T. Blanfoed.— 0/» the 

 Cjclostomacea of the Dafla Hills, Assam (Pis. VII and VIII, A). — By H. 

 H. Godwin- Austen. — Descriptions of some iiew Land and Fresh-TVater 

 Shells from India and Burmah (PL XIV). — By W. Theobald. — De- 

 scription ofneio Species q/'Blattidse belonging to the Genus Panesthia. — By 

 J. Wood-Mason. 



No. 4, (issued April 19th, 1877). Fifth List of Birds from the Rill 

 Banges of the North-East Frontier of India (Pis. V, VI, and IX). — By 

 H. H. Godwin- Austen. — Contributions toimrds a Knoicledge of the Bw- 

 mese Flora. — By S. Kuez. — On the Helicidse collected during ihe Expedi- 

 tion into the Dafia Hills, Assam (PI VIII). — By H. H. Godwin- 

 Austen. — On the Physical Explanation of the Inequality of the two Semi- 

 diurnal Oscillations of Barometric Pressure. — By H. F. Blanfoed. — 

 Contributions towards the knowledge of the Fossil Flora in India. I. On 

 ^ome Fossil Plants from the Damuda Series in the Baniganj Coalfield^ 

 collected by Mr. J. Wood-Mason (Pis. XV— XXI).— -By Ottokab 

 Feistmantel. 



