988 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN EARTHWORMS, 



I have to express my great obligations to Sir William Macleay, 

 and to the Trustees of the South Australian Museum for the 

 opportunity of describing several species, and to the following 

 gentlemen for furnishing me, often at considerable trouble, with 

 supplies of material, viz. Messrs. W. W. Smith, C. E. Rennie, 

 Henry Try on, .T. G. Sloane, and the Revs. A. Swift, and T. F. 

 Potts. 



Cryptodrilus (?) FASCIATUS, n.sp. 



Two (spirit) specimens 15-15-5 cm. long, 6-9 mm. broad; number 

 of segments 90 and 130. 



Colour : an anterior and a posterior portion of each segment of 

 a light colour (dull yellowish in the specimens which have been 

 some years in spirit and are in places somewhat stained or bleached), 

 enclosing a wider middle dark purplish or purple band, reminding 

 one of Allolobophora foetida ; sometimes the purple band is broader 

 than at others, especially at first, but on the whole the body in 

 both specimens presents a very noticeable and characteristic 

 banded appearance, alternately light and dark, obscured by the 

 girdle on the clitellar segments. 



Prostomium divides the buccal ring very slightly (less than J). 

 Body apparently not so depressed (at any rate in spirit specimens) 

 as in C. unicus ; one specimen is faintly but distinctly canaliculate 

 throughout in the median dorsal line, the other only shows it here 

 and there. Segments more or less distinctly bi-annulate (in one 

 specimen a layer of the body-wall is caking off which is 4-annulate 

 on the surface^ whereas underneath the surface is bi-annulate). 



Setse in eight straight rows, the setse of the outer couples 

 further apart than those of the inner couples, and about as far 

 apart as (usually a trifle further than) the two couples of each side. 



Clitellum in one specimen comprising six segments, xiii-xviii, 

 complete all round ; in the other less developed, but segments 

 xiv-xviii together with the posterior half of xiii are noticeably 

 modified 



