26 Memorandum on Shikarpore, in Upper Sindh. [No. 109. 



Estimated distance 100 koss; 15 stages, and occupies from 15 to 

 1 8 days. From Jaysulmere to Palee by way of Porwin and Jodhpore 

 120 koss ; 16 stages, and occupies 16 to 19 days. 

 Shikarpore to the NW. to Dadur. 

 Janeedera. 



Royhan (edge of the desert.) 

 Brushoree (across the desert.) 

 Kassimka Joke. 

 Bagh. 

 Meyassir. 

 Dadur. 

 90 koss; 14 stages, occupying from 7 to 10 days. 



The routes above the Bolan Pass to Kelat, Kandahar, Cabool, &c. 

 Above the Bolan. are now too well known to require repetition. 

 From Shikarpore to the south to Karachee by way of Sehewan, 

 Shikarpore to Karachee, Lorkhana, distance 1 50 koss ; 29 stages, 

 Karachee. occupying from 29 to 33 days ; this road is imprac- 

 ticable from April or May to September as far as Sehewan, and the 

 river is the means of conveying merchandize. 



Classical terminology of Natural History. By B. H. Hodgson, Esq., 

 Resident at the Court of Nepal. 



(To the Editor of the Bengal Asiatic Journal.) 

 Sir, 



Although I think the prevalent humour of the day, which cannot 

 tolerate any other than Greek and Roman names of genera in Zoology, 

 is, in good part, absurd and pedantic, yet as I am told that continued 

 non-compliance therewith on my part will be considered by most per- 

 sons as a sort of excuse for past and future appropriations of my disco- 

 veries in this branch of science, as described in your Journal, I have now 

 the pleasure to transmit to you a series of classical substitutes for my 

 previous local designations. Many other new forms having originally 

 received from me classical appellations (for I am no exclusionist) need 

 not be here noticed : of those that were priorily described by local 

 names the following enumeration supplies, on the left hand, the new 



