2.) 1 Proceedings of ike Asiatic Society, [August, 



Gangavansa kings. There was a large fort built of laterite, which 

 lias lately been entirely demolished, and its materials used for the 

 repair of the Trunk Road. A magnificent tank, twenty acres in area, 

 and some broken pillars are all that now remain to attest its former 

 greatness. The Mahabinayaka hill stands by the side of the high 

 road to Katak, and is covered by a dense forest. It has a small 

 temple and a perennial fountain which are held in great reverence 

 by the people, and the place is reckoned to be one of the four most 

 sacred spots in Orissa. 



The receipt of the following communications was announced — 



1. Notes on the Mondar Sill. — By Babu Rashbeharee Bose, 

 Banla. 



2. A Qondi Vocabulary (enlarged). — By Rev. J. Dawson, 

 Chindwara. 



3. The Vdstu Ydga, and its hearings upon Tree and Serpent-worship 

 in India. — By Babu Pratapa Chandra Ghosha, B. A. 



4. Notes on some Beptilia and Amphibia from Central India , — 

 ly W. T. Blanford, Esq., F. G. S., 0. M. Z. 8., &c. 



(Abstract.) 



The writer has been mainly induced to collect and note the 

 localities of Reptiles by finding that the provinces into which Dr. 

 Giinther proposed, in his ' Reptiles of British India,' to divide 

 the Peninsula, differ to a very important extent from those which 

 appeared probable from a study of the land Mollusca, the birds, 

 and mammals. It appears that Dr. Giinther was to some 

 extent misled by the imperfect evidence at his disposal ; for the 

 Reptilia appear to agree in distribution with the other animals 

 mentioned. 



The following are the Zoological sub -divisions, into which the 

 writer proposes to divide India proper. He especially restricts this 

 name to the country to which it was originally applied, and 

 excludes the regions east of the Bay of Bengal, which are entirely 

 different in climate, inhabitants, zoology, and botany. 



1. The Panjab province. This is the eastern extension of 

 the great desert province. 



2. The Indian province proper, thus sub -divided — 



