102 J. Wood-Mason — New Telphusidae. [Apeil, 



Assam, viz., Pomatorhinus stenorhynchus, Actinura Oglei, and Pellorneum 

 pectoralis. 



The characters of some of the other specimens were briefly noticed, and 

 the close relationship of Actinura Oglei with Turdinus guttatus, Tickell, 

 from Tenasserim, pointed out. The other forms, probably new (further 

 examination being necessary), were provisionally noted as Ghleuasicus atro- 



rciliaris, Ahrornis Jlavogularis, and Turdinus Williamsoni. 



3. Description of two new Species of Freshwater Crustacea obtained ly 

 Mr. O. Limhorg in the Houng-da-rau Valley, Tenasserim. — Py J. 

 Wood-Mason. 



(Abstract.) 

 The author exhibited and read descriptions (i) of Paratelphusa Lim- 

 horgi, which is said to differ from its near ally P. JEdwardsii (from the 

 streams of the flat country lying along the base of the hill-ranges of the 

 N. E. Frontier of India) in the great development and prominence of the 

 extraorbital angles and of the front, which latter is also broadly emarginate, 

 in its slenderer legs, in the un grooved condition of the 2nd joint of its 

 external maxillipeds, &c., and (ii) of Telphusa lohifrons, in which the front 

 is divided by a broad and deep indentation of its surface and by an emargi- 

 nation of its free edge into two lobes, themselves slightly emarginate, in 

 which the external margin of the extraorbital tooth is equal in length to 

 half the width of the front, in which the posterior margin of the carapace 

 and the front are of equal width, &c. 



The collection sent up by Mr. Limborg also contains numerous exam- 

 ples of Telphusa Larnaudii, A. M.-Edw., but none of Paratelphusa 

 Sinensis — a form that abounds in the neighbourhood of Moulmein. 



4. Note on a case of Death hy Lightning in a Mine, communicated ly 

 I. J. Whittt, Esq., Supdt. of the Kurhurhari Collieries, Giridhi. 

 A remarkable case of death by lightning in a mine has been communi- 

 cated by I. J. Whitty, Esq., Supdt. of the Kurhurhari Collieries. The 

 mine is a shallow one, worked by levels driven on the side of a flat-topped 

 hill, only 20 feet from the surface, which is therefore the thickness of rock 

 above the coal seam. The working-face, where the accident occurred, 

 is about 130 feet from the opening. There were a number of miners in the 

 drift at the time. Those .near the entrance were unaffected. The two who 

 were killed (a man and a woman) were at the working-face in adjoining 

 galleries, separated by about 12 feet of coal. Two other miners nearest to 

 the face were knocked down and severely stunned. They were all natives ; 

 and the only account that they could give of what occurred was, that sparks 



