108 E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhynchota. [Aug., 



struck at Herat and Gazni as we see from the inscriptions, and Herat is 

 in the north west of what we call now Afghanistan. I do not think I 

 was wrong in saying that these coins were little known. There were 

 none, when I wrote my paper, in the British Museum or in any known 

 collection. My chief sin seems to have been this, that I had not read 

 Major Raverty's translation of the Tabaqat i Nasiri. This sin of omission 

 I am trying to get rid of, — for, as soon as my attention was called to the 

 existence of the book, I at once purchased a copy. I find it a vast repertory 

 of Oriental learning, tinged however with a certain amount of " surprise " 

 at the errors people fall into when studying a subject hitherto little 

 known. We stand on the shoulders of our forefathers, and see further 

 than they did. We ought therefore to be thankful for further light 

 obtained by their labours, and not ridicule their mistakes in a sarcastic 

 manner. Here in the Panjab, working alone and without a library of 

 reference and with few hours of leisure, there is no wonder that I made 

 and do make small mistakes. Major Raverty, unlike Col. Prideaux, does 

 not give me the credit for discovering the coins and bringing them to 

 notice. Col. Prideaux is, however, a fellow- worker in numismatics and 

 can appreciate the work of others, whereas Major Raverty disagrees with 

 every numismatist, except his own anonymous pet who is wrong in every 

 thing he states." 



The following papers were read : — 



1. Notes on Indian Rhynchota. No. 4i.—By E. T. Atkinson, Esq., 

 B. A. 



(Abstract.) 



This paper, which is the fourth instalment of the author's notes on 

 RJiynchota, comprises 49 species distributed amongst the following 

 genera: Fulgora 20 (2 new), Alcatlwus 1, Pyrops 2, Honialocephala 1, 

 Limois 1, Aphana 9, Lycarma 4, Euphria 5(1 new) Fharonis 2, Qebeuna 

 1, Folydictea 1, Ancyra 2. 



The paper will be published in full in Journal, Part II for 1885. 



2. On the *' Pamir "* from the Russian of Professor Minayeff. — By 

 Major W. E. Go wan. 



The Pamir,t which lies in 36" 35' 70" north latitude and 71° 15' 75-36" 



* Minayeff (Professor I.) Information relating to the countries along the upper 

 course of the Amu-Daria. St. Petersburg, 1879. 



t The etymological signification of this name has not yet been thoroughly clear- 

 ed up : formerly it was held to be derived from Urameru, i. e., the country beneath 

 the mythical mountain Meru, which stands, according to the teaching of ancient 

 Indian Cosmography, in the centre of the earth and this explanation is, perhaps, the 

 most likely. (See Lassen's " Indische AUerthumsicunde, 1, page 1019, Note 1.) Rawlin- 



