JOURNAL 



OP THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL 



VOL. LIII. 

 PART II. (Natural Science.) 

 (Nos. I TO IV.— 1884 : with 14 plates.) 



EDITED BY 



The Natural J^istory jSecretary, 



" It will flourish, if naturalists, chemists, antiquaries, philologers, and men of science 

 in different parts of Asia will commit their observations to writing, and send them to 

 the Asiatic Society at Calcutta. It will languish, if such communications shall be long 

 intermitted ; and it will die away, if they shall entirely cease." Sia Wm. Jones. 





CALCUTTA : 



PRINTED BT J. W. THOMAS, AT THE BAPTIST MISSION PRESS, 



AND PUBLISHED BT THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY, 57 PAKK STREET, 



1884. 



