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what appears to be a second Lampyrid larva. It is not so brilliantly 

 luminous as the Siamese form, but closely resembles it. Should I 

 be able to rear it, I hope to publish a full description in due course. 

 So far as I am aware, these are the only cases in which aquatic Lam- 

 pyrids have been found. 



I may say tl at I am getting together material for an account of 

 the tank fauna of Calcutta, and will be glad to receive specimens of 

 fresh-water animals of all kinds from the neighbourhood. If possible, 

 arrangements Avill be made for their identification by specialists in 

 Europe, unless they belong to groups which are being studied by 

 naturalists at present in India. 



4. A note on Mahamahataka Ghandeswara Thakhura of Mithila, — By 

 The Hon. Mk. Justice Saroda Chakan Mitra. 



(Abstract.) 



Chandeswara Thakkura is known to lawyers as a leader of the 

 Mithila School of the Mitakshara system of Hindu law; to Sanskrit 

 scholars as (he author of the Saptaratnakara, of which the law exposi- 

 tion is but a part, and which contains the whole duty of man. Up to 

 the present time little has been known of him, but that he was a minister 

 of a Raja of Mithila, named Hara Singh, and was living in 1314 A. D., 

 thereafter going on a pilgrimage to Gujiat. 



It is now found out that he came of an ancient family of Mithila 

 Brahmins originating at a village called Visai not yet identified. His 

 grandfather, Devaditya, was prime minister to the then Raja of Mithila, 

 — a feudatory of the Sultan of Delhi ; and his father, Vireswara, was a 

 minister and the author of a work Chhandoga Paddhati. His brother 

 was a great Pandit. Mr. Colebrooke has claimed that Chandeswara 

 rather supervised the writing than wrote the Ratnakara, but there is 

 no improbability in the general belief that he wrote it. 



