1847.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society, SH7 



7. Mr. E. Lindstedt. Several specimens of snakes. 



8. Mr. T. C. Madge. A specimen of the common hammer-headed Shark of the 

 mouth of the river. Sphyrna Blochii, (Val.), v. Zygcena taticeps, Cantor. 



9. Lieut. Blagrave, 26th N. I. A few bird skins from the Upper Provinces. 



10. W. C. Hurry, Esq. A number of living beetles, which, at this season, are 

 extremely destructive to various flowers, &c, in the gardens around Calcutta. The 

 species is widely distributed over the country, and is nearly allied to the well known 

 Turnip- fly of England {Haltica nemorum) ; but I have no immediate means of de- 

 termining it more exactly. 



Among the few stuffed specimens, will be observed a Monkey from the Cape de 

 Verd Islands (C(rc/>pit/iecus sabceus) : some undescribed Squirrels, and with them 

 the $. tristriatus, Wateihouse, which I found in the vicinity of Miduapore, and 

 have since received from Ceylon ; the voice of this little animal being extremely 

 unlike that of Sc. palmarum, which I found inhabiting the same places. Also a 

 new Jungle-fowl, from Ceylon, Gallus lineatus, nobis : s?nd a fine Cobra, 9 feet 

 long, the Hamadryas hannah, Cantor, As. Res. XIX, 87, (183G ;) being also the 

 H. ophioyhagus , Cantor, P. Z. 8. 1838, p. 72, and Naia vittata of Mr. Elliot, 

 Madr. Journ. No. XXVI, 39, as identified by that naturalist with Dr. Cantor's 

 reptile in the following No. of the same Journal, p. 390. 



March 9(h, 1847. E. Blyth. 



Books received during the month of Feb. for the meeting of the \§th March, 1847. 



Presented. 



Meteorological Register for January, 184 7. — From the Surveyor General's 

 Office. 



Ditto ditto, kept at Kyouk Phyoo during the month of January, 1847. — From 

 the Secretary to the Superintend ant of Marine. 



The Horn Book of Storms, for the Indian and China seas, third Edition. — By 

 H. Piddington, Esq. 



Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, No. XVII. — By the Society. 



Archseologia ; Vol 31. — By the Society of Antiquaries of London. 



Historia Abbadidarum ; Praemissis Scriptorum Arabum de ea Dynastia Locis 

 nunc. Primum Editis. Auctore R. P. A. Dozy. Vol. Prius. — By the Curators 

 of the Academy of Leiden. 



The Oriental Christian Spectator, Vol. VIIT. No. 2nd. — By the Editor. 



The Calcutta Christian Observer, for March, 1847. — By the Editors. 



R. Griffin & Co.'s Catalogue of Books and Stationary.— By R. Griffin & Co. 



Statement of Facts relative to the transactions between the writer and the late 

 British Political Mission to the Court of Shoa, in Abyssinia, by C. T. Beke, Esq. — 

 By the Author. 



A grammar of the Tahitian dialect of the Polynesian Language. — By the 

 Rev. J. Long. 



