BDELLODEA CLEPSINEA CLEPSINE ORNATA. 965 



an inch wide. The body was strongly annulated, with crenulated margins ; 

 on each annulation there was a transverse row of numerous small but con- 

 spicuous papillse. Ocelli united. The color was dark olive and fuscous- 

 brown on the back, with a row of small, semicircular, light yellowish spots 

 along each margin at every third annulation; head with an interrupted pale 

 yellow vitta ; ventral surface striped with olive-green and dull grayish. 



This specimen was taken, without eggs or young, near New Haven, 

 about the first of May. 



Var. e. Other somewhat similar specimens, from the same locality, were 

 3 inches long in extension and 0.5 to 0.75 broad; in contraction, 1.5 long 

 and 1 inch broad. Body much depressed, with thin margins, obtuse ante- 

 riorly. Back covered with numerous small, unequal, conical, or rounded 

 verrucse, arranged in transverse rows of twenty or more on each annulation. 

 Ocelli black, very closely approximate. Head, in front of ocelli, brownish- 

 white, with lateral brown spots ; behind the ocelli with a short, median, 

 orange-brown stripe. General color of body dark greenish-brown. The 

 ground color is brown, varied with very numerous minute, stellate specks 

 of dark green ; toward the lateral margins of the body and edges of the 

 acetabulurn the color is lighter orange-brown, with fewer green specks; 

 and a marginal series of roundish, pale brown spots extends along each 

 side and around the acetabulum ; beneath pale bluish, with sixteen to 

 twenty stripes of green. 



On the lower side, the dark brown viscera show very distinctly, through 

 the integuments, eleven branches or lobes on each side; these are elongated, 

 well separated, with few short, open branches ; the anterior ones are but 

 little shorter, and are not crowded. In this respect, this species is very dis- 

 tinct from C. picta, in which the branches are twenty or more on each side, 

 short, much branched, crowded, the anterior ones becoming much smaller 

 and more crowded. 



Connecticut to Nebraska, Colorado, and New Mexico. 

 Var. l>, No. 183, San Ildefonso, New Mexico, 1874, Dr. H. C. Yarrow. 

 Var. d, No. 154 B, Taos, New Mexico, Dr. H. C. Yarrow, 1874. 

 Clepsine papillifera Verrill, op. cit., p. 683, is a closely allied species, and 

 undoubtedly occurs with the preceding in the region explored, though il 



