1877.] Rajendralala Mitra — On tlie Sdthigumplid InsGrlptlon, 163 



Bacillus iitspidulus, var. 

 Bacillus hispuMus, Wood-Mason, J. A. S. B., 1873, Vol. XLII, p. 47, pi. Til, 

 fig. 2 et 3 ^ ? . 



Longer and slenderer and with much longer legs than the type specimens 

 from the Andamans. The specimen mentioned on page 48, loo. supra cit., 

 agrees with the males and was prohably also from the neighbom*hood of 

 Moulmein. 



Hab. Abundant throughout the valley of the Houn^-da-rau. 



Ohs. — B. Jiispidulus $ is very nearly allied to B. Souchongia, Westw., 

 but differs in not having the posterior angles of the penultimate dorsal abdo- 

 minal segment acuminate, in its feebly forcipated anal cerci, etc. 



LEPIDOPTERA. 



Fam. MoEPniDJi:. 



Thaumantis Louisa, n. sp. 



Th. alis supra alhis, anticis dimidio basalt, posticis partilus duahus 

 hasalibus Icotissime et purissime fidvis ; singulis, ut in Th. Howqua, j^«scz"« 

 sibbmarginali lunidariom citm maculis liastatiformihus coalitarum satui'j^tis- 

 sime violaceo-fusca, ornatis ; lunulis maculisq^ue alarum posticarum valde 

 majorihus : alis infra luteo-fulvis, anticarwn parte media sola alba luteo 

 vix tincta ; strigis qtmtuor simmtis, duabus basalibus saturate bruuneis, 

 alterisque duabus siibmarginalibiis obsoletis et tantum ad angulum analeni 

 hnmneo-coloratis ; anticarum ooellis omnibus (5) obsoletis, posticarum au- 

 tem duobus (intermediis tribics obsoletis) rufis fupilla alba, iride tenui 

 nigra. 



Expans. alariorn antic, unc. 5 lin. 3. 



Habitat in Tenasserim in montibus " Taoo'' dictis ad alt. 3 — G00O^;^rt^. 

 0, Limborg detexit. 



This line and distinct species belongs to the same division of the genus 

 as Th. Camadeva, Th. Nourmahal, Th. Cambodia, and Th. Howqita, to the 

 last of which it is most nearly related, but from which it differs in having 

 the upper surface of the wings white and fulvous instead of fulvous through- 

 out, and in having five spots instead of ocelli on the under-surface of the 

 fore wings and only two well-developed ocelli on the hinder wings, instead 

 of three and five respectively. 



Dr. Hajendealala Mitea exhibited to the meeting plaster casts of 

 the celebrated Hathigumpha inscription at Udayagiri, and submitted a 

 revised reading and translation of that record. He said, he was indebted to 

 his friend Mr. H. ,H. Locke of tbe Calcutta School of Art for the opportu- 

 nity of reading the record and of exhibiting the casts, which had been 

 prepared under the iimiiediutc superintendence of Mr. Locke, at the cost of 



