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ing sperm, but no sperm-sacs.*) Prostates tubelike, occupying 

 some (3 or 4?) segments, with rather long and nearly straight duct, 

 and a thicker, serpentine glandular part. Penial setae ca. 1 mm. 

 long and in the middle ca. 25 /u thick, slowly getting thinner 

 towards the distal end which is about 13 /< thick ; distal quarter 

 curved to about a quarter of a circle; distal end abruptly much 

 more slender than the adjacent part, quite smooth, with very 

 tine tip bent in the form of a hook ; the interruption at the proximal 

 end of the slender distal part of the seta is caused by a short 

 and. broad chisel-like or scale-like protuberance or tooth semi- 

 encircling the seta (noted in none of the three species of Beddard, 

 but occurring in all type specimens examined by myself, as well as 

 in all other examined specimens assigned to Eodrili/s uriiinlinis} ; at 

 the part proximal to this protuberance the seta is ornamented 

 by a small number of smaller protuberances, about 8, standing 

 at the proximal end of small scar-like recesses. 



Spermathecae : Ampulla pear- or sac-shaped ; duct egg-shaped, 

 sharply separated from the ampulla, about half as long and a quarter 

 as thick as the ampulla ; from the middle of the duct arise generally 

 2, rarely 3, or even 4 diverticula, which are nearly as long as the 

 ampulla, and consist of a cylindrical seminal-tube and a thin, 

 and short stalk. 



EODRILUS PERINGUEYI, 11. Sp. 



LOG. Moddergat, near Lynedoch in the Stellenbosch district; 

 L. Peringuey, leg. 



External Characters. Length 60-70 mm., maximal thickness 

 3-| 3^ mm., number of segments 126-134. 



Colour dirty grey. 



Head epilobous (ca. f). 



Setae at the ends of the body enlarged, in general ventrally widely 

 paired, dorsally very widely paired ; in the middle of the body 

 aa : ab : be : cd : - 7:4:8:6, at the ends of the body about 

 aa : ab : be : cd == 6 : 4 : 6 : 6. Towards the male pores ab slowly 

 diminishing; dd ---- ,^-f /u. 



Prostate pores at the 17 and 19 segments in b. 



Seminal furrows slightly bent, laterally convex. 



Spermathecal pores at 7/8 and 8/9 in b. 



Copulatory papillae transversely oval, one pair at the hinder 



* In all his species in the paper in question Beddard noted these free sperm- 

 masses erroneously as sperm-sacs. I mention this fact here, but it also refers to 

 other species as well as this one. 



