1 887.] R. B. Foote— On the Stone Age in South India, 259 



7. Lastly, Nycticejus nivicohis Hodgs. is said by Dr. Horsfield 

 (loc. cit. p. 395) to be from Nepal. I am not certain as to what this 

 species really is ; it is possibly Harjpyiocephalus harpia, before mentioned, 

 but, whatever it may be, Hodgson did not get it in Nepal. The correct 

 locality for the type is, " Sikkim Himalaya, northern region, near snow" 

 (Gray, Cat. Hodgson's Coll. 1863, p. 3). 



Considering that the list of Nepal bats is a short one, the number 

 of errors that have collected about it is more than usually large. 



XYIII. — Notes on some recent Neolithic and Palceolithic Finds in South 

 India. — By R. Bruce Foote, F. G. S., Superintendent of the Geo- 

 logical Survey of India, Fellow of the University of Madras. — Gom- 

 municated by the Superintendent of the Indian Museum. 



[Received and Read August 3rd, 1887.] 



(With a Map—Pl. XI.) 



Contents. 



§ 1. Introduction. 



§ 2. Eai-liest recorded finds in South India. 



§ 3. Mr. Eraser's discoveries at Bellary. Letter to the Geological Magazine, 

 1873. My finds in Bellary District and the South Mahratta Country, 

 exhibited at the Yienna International Exhibition and presented to the 

 Geological Survey Museum, 1873. 



§ 4. Mr. Valentine Ball's paper " On the Forms and Geographical Distribution 

 of Ancient Stone Implements in India," 1878. 



§ 5. Finds in Salem, Tinnevelly, Madura, Trichinopoly, Nellore, and Kistna 

 Districts, and the Nizam's Territory. Absence of littoral Kitchen- 

 middens of the Danish type. 



§ 6. Collection of Celts from North Arcot District described by Mr. John 

 Cockburn. 



§ 7. Cache of Neolithic Implements and Pottery at Patpad, Banaganapalle 

 State, Karnul District. Finds in the Yerra Zari Gabbi, in Billa 

 Surgam, and other Caves, 1883 — 85. 



§ 8. The Neolithic Settlements of the Bellary-Anantapur Country, 1884 — 87. 

 Slag and Cinder-mounds and Camps. Celt-factories. Selection of gra- 

 nite-gneiss hills for the great majority of the settlements. Yarieties of 

 implements, &c. found. Yarieties of stone selected for use. Pottery 

 and other implements. Connection of the Neolithic and Iron Ages. 

 § 9. Palaeolithic remains from the shingle-fans at base of the Copper mountain, 

 south of Bellary. 



§ 1. So many communications have been made to this Society on 

 the subject of prehistoric stone implements of various ages, discovered 

 in different parts of India and its dependencies, that I should hesitate 



