A. JE. Verrill — The Bermuda Islands. 847 



Pheretima Schmardce (Horst.) Mich. 



In formalin pale buff, with a purplish or chocolate-brown clitellus. 

 In life, often dark brownish red or sometimes greenish or olivaceous. 

 In formalin the segments are mostly carinate or angular, with long 

 rows of hooks. It is a very lively species, and when disturbed 

 wriggles about very actively, much like a salamander, and when 

 caught often breaks itself into two or more pieces. New to Ber- 

 muda ; known from Barbadoes. 



Common under stones at the old Walsingham house. 



Pheretima Bodericensis (Grube) Mich. = Peric/ueta Dyeri Bedd. 



A rather large species, 4-6 inches long. Color in formalin light 

 yellowish brown ; segments anteriorly and posteriorly with a promi- 

 nent angular median carina, bearing long rows of hooks. Widely 

 diffused in warm climates ; West Indies. Active like the preceding. 



Onychochwta Windlei Bedd. = Diachwta Windlei Bedd. Under 

 stones, not common. 



In addition to the above, Beddard has described, 1894, from this 

 locality Pheretima Bermudensis Bedd., as Perichceta, which is widely 

 diffused in the warmer parts of both hemispheres. Also, 1891, Pon- 

 todrillus Bermudensis (?=P. arena} Mich., t. Moore). 



b. — Land Nemerteans. 



A species of terrestrial nemertean ( Tetrastemma agricola W. Suhm) 

 was discovered in Bermuda by the Challenger Expedition.* We 

 found it common under stones and logs, near Hungry Bay, not 

 only close to the shore, but also on the hillsides where the soil was 

 rather dry. It is said to live also in the holes of land crabs. Full- 

 grown individuals are sometimes six inches long, in full extension, 

 and very slender. It has four small but very distinct black eyes in 

 a quadrangle. The color above is dusky brown, grayish, or smoky 

 brown, paler below. See Plate C; figure 4. 



Although it is known only from Bermuda, its habits and localized 

 distribution are like those of a recently introduced species. It is 

 associated with foreign species of earthworms and isopods ; still it 

 may, perhaps, prove to be endemic. We brought back living speci- 

 mens in bottles of damp earth and mould without difficulty. 



* See H. N. Moseley, Notes by a Naturalist on the Challenger, pp. 26, 27, and 

 figure. 



