PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



For April, 1878, 



The Monthly G-eneral Meeting of the Asiatic Society was held on Wed- 

 nesday, the 3rd April, at 9 o'clock p. m. 



W. T. Blanfoed, F. K. S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



The following presentations were announced : — 



1. From the Home Department, Government of India, a copy of a 

 work entitled, " Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum, Vol. 1, Inscriptions of 

 Asoka." By General A. Cunningham, C. S. I. 



2. From J. Wood-Mason, Esq., the following pamphlets : — 



Note on My gale Stridulans. Description of a new species of Plias- 

 midcd from India. On a small collection of Orthopterous Insects of the 

 families PJiasmidce and Mantidcs from Australia and New Britain, with 

 descriptions of four new species. Notes on new and little known Mantidce. 

 On the discovery of Stridulating Apparatus in Scorpions. Preliminary 

 notice of a species of JPhasmidcB apparently possessing all the Structural 

 Arrangements needed both for Aerial and Aquatic Eespiration. 



3. From the Author, " Fine Liste von Eajmahali-Wortern. By T. 

 Aufrecht." 



4. From the Hon. Sir Edward Bayley, K, C. S. I., several copies of 

 old Journals of the Asiatic Society, and a Persian MS. entitled " Zafar- 

 namah-i-Alamgiri." 



5. From the Government of Bengal "A Statistical Account of 

 Bengal," Vols. VI— XIX. By Dr. W. W. Hunter. 



6. From J. Eudd Eainey, Esq., Kulna, jQssore. A silver coin found 

 in the village of Eamnagar, near Kulna. 



