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village, and was deserted only about 100 years ago ; the other is said to 

 Lave been a fort. Under a tree on the Bara-ganw hill have been collected 

 a few fragments of figure sculpture, one of which had been afterwards 

 appropriated for a Muhammadan building, as it shows on the back the 

 endings of four lines of a Persian inscription in bold raised characters. 



" The coin was probably found in the Kot mound, where bricks of 

 large size are also excavated. Its inscription is in modern Nagari charac- 

 ters, and what remains of it is very clear ; but so many of the outside 

 letters have disappeared, together with the outer rim of the coin itself, 

 that I am unable to decypher it. I shall be glad if you can enlighten me." 



Dr. Hoernle remarked that the coin was a well-known one. It had 

 already been described and figured in Marsden's Numismata Orientalia 

 (No. MCCII, p. 789). It was again described and figured in the Appen- 

 dix to Prinsep's Indian Antiquities (Useful Tables, Vol. II, p. 65). In 

 the latter work it is said to be a coin issued by an obscure zemindar of 

 Jayanagar, a village near Bajragarh. The inscriptions are differently 

 read in the two works mentioned, but incorrectly in both. The correct 

 reading appears to be the following. Obverse : Sri Bdghava Pratdpa 

 Pavana-putra BalavardJialca. Reverse : yah siha par chhdp maha JRdja 

 Jay a Singh {Ke date Jayanagar). The words enclosed in brackets 

 with the date, are wanting on the present coin. Both inscriptions are in 

 the Hindi language, and in modern Nagari characters. The reverse 

 states that " on this coin is inscribed the name of the Raja Jai Singh, 

 (the date, and the mint Jayanagar)." 



The following papers were read : 



1. On Indian Ants of the Indian Museum in Calcutta. — By Pro- 

 fessor Aug. Forel. — Communicated by the Natural History Secretary. 



(Abstract.) 



This paper is an account of a collection of Calcutta ants recently 

 forwarded to the author for determination by the Superintendent of the 

 Indian Museum. The collection contains 26 species, of which two are 

 described as new, one from the ' soldier ' form under the name of Pheidole 

 juGunda, and the other from the soldier and worker forms under that 

 of Pheidole woodi, and a third has its female described for the first time. 



The paper will be published in the forthcoming number of Journal, 

 Part II, for the current year. 



2. Notes on the Chittagong Dialect. — By Mr. F. E. Pargiter. 



(Abstract.) 

 In offering these Notes on the Chittagong dialect, Mr. Pargiter re- 

 marked that he was aware how incomplete they were, how many matters 



