1882.] Coins of tTie Andhrnhlirifyn Bynnsfy. 59 



Southern Mahratta country : tbey consist of two descriptions, lead and 

 copper, the former small, the latter large. 

 The list of kings is as follows : 



1. Gotami putasa I, cir. A. D. 135. • 



2. Vasitho „ 



3. Maduri „ 



4. Gotami ,, II. 



All that is known of them will be found in the references at the head of 

 this note. 



ii I regret I have no spare coin of No. 2, Vasitha-putasa, but there were 

 fewer found of this king. 



" They are curious coins and may be acceptable to the Society. 



" I have placed the names in the order in which Pandit Bhugwunlal 

 Indragi puts them and the date of Gotami putasa I, 135 A. D., is tliafc 

 assigned by him. There were no coins found belonging to this first king." 



The following papers were read — 



1. Notes on the Anatomy of the Scorpion-spiders (Thelyphonus). Fart I 

 The Scent-glands. — By J. Wood-Maso:n-. 



(Abstract.) 



The remarkable Arachnidan genus Thelyphonus is confined in its dis- 

 tribution to South America and Southern Asia and their islands. Of its 

 internal anatomy nothing but the nervous system is known. The French 

 zoologist Lucas states that the Thelyphoni are called Yinaigriers by the 

 inhabitants of Martinique on account of the strong vinegary odour which 

 they emit when touched or handled. Stoliczka, who examined living speci- 

 mens of one of the Indian species, states that a peculiar but inodorous 

 fluid issues from two internal pyloric (!) appendages. These Arachnides, 

 according to Lucas, live in damp places under stones on the ground. 

 Stoliczka and Mr. Peal found them beneath the bark of decayed trees in groups. 

 The author of the present paper was only able to obtain specimens for 

 dissection during the heaviest rain, when all vegetation and the ground 

 is saturated with water, and the animals come forth from their holes in the 

 rocks, and he had found that death quickly followed their removal from 

 their humid haunts, air saturated with moisture being apparently necessary 

 for the due performance of their respiratory functions. All the specimens 

 he had met with emitted, when touched, a most powerful and lasting odour 

 exactly like that of a highly concentrated essence of pears, but which when 

 deeply inspired had all the characteristic smell and pungency of strong 

 acetic acid. This odour did not emanate from the general surface of the 

 body, but proceeded from a pellucid fluid which exudes from the neigh- 

 bourhood of the anus and is secreted by special glands. These are paired 



