CONTENTS 



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



JOURNAL OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL FOR 1876, 



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

 Telegraphy (with a Woodcut). — By Louis Schwendleb. — On some 

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

 dactylus, a?ic? Trapelus (Pis. I and II). — By W. T. Blai^foed. — On certain 

 protracted Irregularities of Atmospheric Pressure in the Indian Monsoon 

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

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

 Wood-Mason. — _Z)e5cr^p^^^o;^ q/Felis Shawiana, a new Lyncine Gat from 

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

 of Cetoniidse. — By J. Wood-Mason. 



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

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

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

 JBsychrometer hy di^'erent methods of Reduction. — By H. P. Blanfoed. — 

 List of the Birds collected on the Expedition into the Dcifla Hills, Assam, 

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

 IV). — By H. H. Godwin- Atjsten. — 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 Sketch of the Vegetation of 

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

 Golunda EUioti from Sind (PL X.).—By W. T. Blanfoed.— 0;j the 

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

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

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

 scription of new Species o/Blattidse belonging to the Genus Panesthia. — By 

 J. Wood-Mason. 



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

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

 H. H. Godwin- Austen. — Gontrihutions towards a Knowledge of the Bur- 

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

 tion into the Dafla Hills, Assam (PL VIII). — By H. H. Godwin- 

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

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

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

 some Fossil Plants from the Damuda Series in the Baniganj Coalfield, 

 collected ly Me. J. Wood-Mason (Pis XV— XXI).— % Ottokae 

 Feistmantel. 



