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of his discovery of a 3rd species. Rev. Fairbank has re-discovered the 

 peculiar Tanalia stomatodon of Mr. Benson in the Pulney hills, and 

 the operculum shews that the species really belongs to the genus to 

 which it was, with some doubt, assigned by Mr. Benson. Aulopoma 

 amongst the operculated land-shells, and Acavus amongst the Helices 

 are the only Ceylonese forms still not known to be represented in 

 Southern India. 



Captain Beddome has also discovered a third Indian species of 

 Opisthostoma in the Wynaad, and this very curious form is much 

 larger than the two previously discovered, and even than the singular 

 Lubnan 0. Crespigni, H. Ad. The other shells described are a 

 species of Ennea allied to E. Perriei, Pfr., from the Pulney hills, 

 and a new and curious Streptaxis from Canara. 



IV. Notes on the Burmese route from Assam to the Hookoong- 

 valley, by H. L. Jenkins, Esq., — communicated, through H. Goode- 

 nough, Esq., by the President. (With a map). 



"Wishing to satisfy myself as to the practicability of opening out 

 the old *Burmese route from Assam into Upper Burmah, I started on 

 the fifteenth of last month from Makoom, the last outpost in that 

 direction, and travelled along the old path as far as lake Nonyang, 

 on the south side of that Patkoi range. The following notes of the 

 trip may perhaps prove interesting to persons connected with Assam. 



15th December. — Started from Makoom in the morning. There is 

 no road eastwards or southwards beyond this point, except the natural 

 bed of the Dehing river. It is necessary to cross the river at every 

 bend. This is not difficult at this time of the year. There is not 

 more than two or three feet of water at the outside. Encamped at 

 night at the mouth of the Terap river. 



16£A.— Continued to travel up the bed of the Dehing and camped 

 at night at a small Singfoo village, a short distance below the Kerrem- 

 pani, an affluent of the No Dehing river. 



17th. — Reached the new Beesa of the maps. Bunka, the most 

 influential chief of the Assam Singfoos lives here. He accompanied 

 me across the Patkoi. 



18th. — Camped at night at the mouth of the Dion-pani, another 

 affluent of the No Dehing. 



* See Wilcox's Survey Maps. 



