160 J. Wood-Mason — Neiv Insects from Tenasserim. [July, 



in 1874 when, in company with Major Sandeman, he visited the Suliman 

 region west of Dera Ghazi Khtin. There was no time for any exploration 

 of the mounds to which their attention had been drawn by the Khetrans, 

 who seemed to regard them as being of great antiquity. Certain it is 

 that people of that part of the country, at the present day, neither use 

 nor manufacture any description of pottery. 



The CiiAiEMAisr said that the thanks of the meeting were due to Major 

 Mockler for permitting his collection of antiquities to be exhibited to th-e 

 meeting. They were highly interesting both from an antiquarian and 

 an ethnological jDoint of view. The study of the social condition of a people 

 from the remains of their utensils, arms, and other domestic articles was 

 of modern date ; but it was one which, in the absence of other and more 

 direct evidence, was of great importance, and in connexion with the dwellers 

 of the Lake -habitations of Switzerland, and other ancient people had been 

 very largely utilised. The evidence the articles afforded were also of a 

 character, which none could gainsay, and were thoroughly authentic. For 

 the illustration of the history alike of art and of civilization they were of 

 inestimable value. He was not aware of the exact date of the articles ; but 

 accepting the opinion of his learned friend Mr. Blanford, founded upon 

 fairly reliable evidence, that the articles must be abomt 2000 years old, he 

 thought the fragments of glazed pottery exhibited were particularly interest- 

 ing. In Arrian's Periplus of the Erythrean Sea, mention was made of the 

 celebrated Murrhian cups which were said to have been exported from 

 Bairigaza, modern Broach, but were manufactured in Guzerat and its 

 adjoining provinces ; as also in Oojein. Some antiquarians supj)osed that 

 the cups were made of crystal ; but there was no doubt now of their having 

 been of porcelain, and the glazed pottery on the table showed that those 

 who coidd prepare such excellent glaze, would not find the manufacture of 

 porcelain impossible for them : at least the probability lay in their favour. 



The specimens of glass on the table were not particularly^ good ; but it 

 was said that glass was manufactured in India from a remote period of 

 antiquity, and mention of it was met with in many ancient works. The 

 specimens gave a tangible proof of the assertion. 



Mr. WooD-MASOif exhibited specimens of new and little known in- 

 sects collected by Mr. Ossian Limborg and staff in Upper Tenasserim, and 

 read the following preliminary notes upon them : — 



OETHOPTEEA. 



Fam. PHASMIDiE. 



* Female perfectly apterous ; the metanotum proper much longer than the medial * 

 segment, A process at the hinder extremity of the sixth ventral segment of the abdomen. 



