British Encliytneids. By Rev. H. Friend. 13 



as long as broad. Salivary glands broad, band-like, with branches 

 at hinder extremity. Spermathecse with large ampulla, and usually 

 4 stalked diverticula. Duct of spermatheca about twice as long as 

 the ampulla, and relatively narrow^ 



Beddard, Monograph, p. 346 ; Michaelsen, Das Tierreich, p. 101. 



British Bccords. — During a visit to Eugby, February 14, 1896, 

 I found seme w^orms by a little stream on the Dunchurch Eoad 

 which proved to belong to this species. I figured the spermathecffi 

 in my copy of Beddard with the record. August 1, 1896, received 

 specimens from Mr. Hart, of Howth, Ireland, and April 1, 1896, 

 July 1897, from Dr. Trumbull, collected in Murlock Wood. 



3. Fridericia ulmicola Friend. 



A w^hitish worm found in old elm trunk. Lensth 18-20 mm. 

 Segments 60. Brain lobed, attached by strong muscular processes 

 behind ; set?e 4-7 in front, unec^ual, 4 behind nearly equal in 

 length ; hooked almost at right angles within. Spermathecse with 

 three diverticula and long coiled duct. Salivary glands branched ; 

 girdle with about thirty-four rows of transverse cells. 



British Bi cords. — Ireland, April 1896; Friend in Irish 

 Naturalist, 1898, p. 195. Differs in many points from F. michael- 

 seni Bret., and if they were identical, as Southern suggests, my 

 name has precedence. I have Bretscher's description (Eevue 

 Suisse de Zool., 1899, vol. vi. p. 410), and am familiar with his 

 species. Malvern, June 7, 1909. 



4. Fridericia striata Levinsen. 



Varies in colour from white to yellow, grey or gi'ecnish. Length 

 15 mm. , segments 50-55. Setpe vary much in number from 3-9, 

 smallest and shortest inncrmcst. No diverticula to the sperma- 

 theca:'. Brain somewhat longer than broad, with weak concavity 

 in front and convexity behind. 



Michaelsen, Das Tierreich, p. 96 ; Beddard, p. 342. 



British Records. — My earliest notes and drawings are dated 

 "Clifton and Lowther, Cumberland, February 13, 1896"; 

 Naturalist, August, 1898, and earlier ; then Broughton, March 28, 

 1896; Apperley Bridge, January 3, 1898; Friend, in Zoologist, 

 1898, p. 121 ; Sutton Park, May 1899, 1907, 1908 ; Southern and 

 Evans, as above, for Ireland and Scotland ; Newton Moss, Cum- 

 berland, March ; Eepton in May ; and Ticknall, Derbyshire, 

 June 30, 1911. 



Some other worms belonging to this genus w^ere found in 1896, 

 but as they were not described with sufficient fullness it is better, 

 for the present, to leave them unnoticed. I have, therefore, placed 



