ISa Wood -Mason— 0^ Blind Cmstaceans. [August, 



4. To build a lofty mosque. Ask him minutely regarding its excellence. 



5. I searched for the date of its construction, and the old sage told me the words 

 '« Like a house of agate/^ A. H. 1074. 



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1. In the reign of Shah 'Alamgir, the just, the religious, the light of wliose justice 

 illuminates the world, 



2. Mu'tamid Khan found grace to build with sincerity of heart this holy 

 mosque. 



3. Tlie revenue of this well and this bath and these rooms was given as a perpetual 

 gi'ant to the servants of the mosque for their maintenance. 



4. I request the just kings and rulers of the age not to misappropriate the revenues 

 of the mosque for the sake of God. 



5. O God, may this mosque through the kindness of the people of the world remain 

 standing as long as the world, the sun, the moon, the earth, and the heaven remain ! 



Mr. J. Wood-Mason exhibited drawings of various Blind Crustaceans 

 and drew attention to tlie fact that a species differing in no particular of 

 generic value from Deidmnia leptodactyla et crucifer of Willemoes v. Suhm, 

 discovered by H. M. S. ' Challenger,' had, years before, been described by 

 Prof, C. Heller under the name oi Polyclieles typJilops ; in which species from 

 the Mediterranean the organs of vision were also morphologically entirely 

 wanting, being merely represented by two minute pigment-specks situated 

 at the usual place of origin of the eye-stalks. Mr. Mason also stated 

 that Folycheles typhlops and its allies could be placed in no existing family 

 of crustaceans, recent or fossil, with the exception perhaps of the Eryonidce, 

 the structural characters of which appeared to be far too imperfectly known 

 to warrant their being included in it ; he, therefore, proposed to establish a 

 new family, to be called the PolyclieVidce^ for their reception, and provision- 

 ally to consider them as members of its single genus Folycheles. Mr. Mason 



