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apSogpo, that is ardhavira or the half male, half female Siva (Parvati). 
The letters are evidently meant as mere ornament, and badly imitated, with¬ 
out understanding, from the corresponding Greek legend on Indo-Scythian 
coins. The real legends of the coin are not Greek, but Indian. There is 
no monogram on either side. Neither in Prinsep nor in "Wilson is there 
figured any coin exactly resembling this one. The copper coin, in Prinsep, 
XXXI, 4, is the nearest to it. Prinsep (Vol. I, p. 387) reads the legend 
on the obverse, maJca. 
The other gold coin is one of the so-called Gupta series and belongs to 
Chandragupta II. There is no specimen exactly like it, in either Prinsep 
or Wilson. Those nearest are Prinsep, XXX, 9, and Wilson, XVIII, 4. 
But on the present coin, on the obverse, the king is turned to the right, 
looking at his bow, while his right arm is raised, the hand holding some 
indistinct object; the inscription is Deva sri mahdrajddJiirdja ; no mono¬ 
gram. The reverse is exactly like that on Prinsep, XXX, 9.; viz., Lakslimi, 
sitting on a lotus; left hand pointing downwards, right hand holding the 
royal fillet; legend sri vikrama ; monogram. 
The following papers were read— 
1. Description of some new Species of Hy droid Zoophytes from the Indian 
Coasts and Seas.—By Db. J. Abhsteong. 
(Abstract.) 
This paper contains descriptions of the following new species. Lafoea 
elongatd, found at Pigeon Island and Konkan Coast, also at Diamond Island 
off the coast of Pegu; Halicornaria setosa, found off Cape Negrais in 80 
fathoms, Cheduba Island in 8 to 10 fathoms, off the Terrible Islands in 25 
fathoms, and off Cape Comorin in 40 fathoms; Halicornaria plumosa, found 
off Cape Comorin in 35 to 40 fathoms, and off Cheduba Island in 10 to 15 
fathoms ; Thiinaria compressa, found in abundance off Diamond Island and 
on the Konkan Coast, also off Cape Comorin ; Antennella alhnanni, found 
off Cape Comorin in 50 fathoms and off Cheduba Island in 8 to 10fathoms; 
Sertularella riyosa, found off Cape Comorin in 40 fathoms and off the 
Arakan Coast in from 10 to 15 fathoms ; Desmoscyphus humilis, found on 
coast of St. George’s Island, West coast of India. Endendrium ramosum, 
found off Cape Comorin in 40 fathoms and very sparingly along the coast 
of Arakan in from 10 to 70 fathoms. 
With the exception of a single species, all the above hydroid are caly- 
ptoblastic. The one exception is Endendrium ramosum, which is a typical 
gymnoblastic zoophyte, and is especially remarkable in having the gonojfiio- 
res borne not upon a true blastic style but upon atrophied hydrantha from 
which the tentacles have disappeared. 
The paper will be published, with plates, in the Journal, Part II. 
