1872.] Stoliczka — Barmese Bejpiiles. 143 



door abovementionecl ; the second is to the right of that door. The 

 fourth is to the left, and the Jifili is to the right of the easternmost of 

 the three doors on the south face of the building. A heap of rubbish covers 

 the wall almost to the level of the base of the last mentioned inscription ; 

 but there is no appearance inside the chamber at this place of a door, nor 

 is there anything indicating that there was a vault there. The Muhammadan 

 custom of building into the walls of ruins inscriptions that have fallen or 

 become detached might account for the altered position in which the inscrip- 

 tions are now found from what they are described by Buchanan to have occu- 

 pied nearly forty years ago, were it not that there is no new masonry, 

 nor any break in the courses in the walls round the inscriptions, or indeed 

 in any part of the walls. I made a careful enquiry from the person in charge 

 of the ruins, and from other persons living in the vicinity, but they had no 

 knowledge of any other inscription than the four abovementioned ever having 

 been seen at the place. This was in the month of June last. 



" The translation published by Thomas, and which he received from 

 Col. Nassau Lees was made by the latter from a rubbing of the inscription 

 numbered L, by Mr. Blochmann, taken by me in 1868, and then shown to 

 Col. Lees. The Kai Kaiis Shah mentioned in that inscription is referred to 

 in the Society's Journals for 18G4, page 579, and for 1867, page 40. It 

 will afford me much pleasure if the rubbings of the Gangarampiir inscriptions 

 which I took last month will resolve the doubt expressed by Mr. Blochmann, 

 in the translation of his No. I inscription, or supply the date wanting in the 

 rubbing furnished him of his No. IV inscription." 



The President laid before the meeting a copy of Dalton's " Descriptive 

 Ethnology of Bengal," and remarked that the editing of these papers had 

 been' undertaken by himself and Mr. Blochmann, at the latter end of 1870, 

 at the request of the Council. The work had been some time in press 

 owing to various causes, and to the delay which must necessarily arise in 

 getting so many and such excellent lithographic illustrations executed, but 

 the Editors had now much pleasure in laying a complete copy before the 

 Society. 



The following papers were read — 



I. — Note oit a few Barmese species oe Satjria, Ophidia and 

 Bateachia, — hy Dr. F. Stoliczea. 



I have lately received from Mr. Theobald a few very interesting species 

 of Eeptiles and Amphibians, collected by him in various parts of Pegu and 

 near Moulmain in the Tenaserim district. There is a new species of worm- 

 or blind-snakes among the Moulmain specimens, and the examination of 

 excellently preserved specimens of Blyth's Megaloplirys guttulata and En- 



