992 NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN EARTHWORMS, 



The spermathecse are single median pouches, each with two cseca, 

 as in C. fasciatus, and C. purpureus ; not pairs of pouches one of 

 each of which is rudimentary. 



Hah., — The banks of Lake Cudgellico, a few miles from the 

 Lachlan River, N.S. W. (collected by Mr. T. G. Sloane). 



Cryptodrilus Smithi, n.sp. 



A good series of about eighty specimens killed in an extended 

 condition from 21 (juv.) to 145 mm. long, 1-3 mm. broad; number 

 of segments from about 135-170. 



Prostomium divides the buccal ring all but completely. Body 

 slender, cylindrical, segments mostly tri-annulate ; colour pallid, 

 the integument more or less pellucid. 



Setae in four ventral and four dorsal longitudinal rows forming 

 on each side of the body a ventral and a dorsal couple separated 

 by an ususually wide interval : the setae of the ventral couples 

 distant from each other about as far as (or a trifle less than) their 

 inner rows are from the median ventral line ; those of the dorsal 

 couples at varying distances apart, the third row on each side not 

 being straight, rarely closer but usually more distant than those of 

 the ventral couples ', except on the first three or four setigerous 

 segments (ii-iv or v) where they are a little further removed, the 

 setae of each fourth row quite close (unusually so) to the median 

 dorsal line, closer than the first (ventral) row is to the median 

 ventral line. 



Clitellum of four segments, xiv-xvii, complete all round except 

 for certain papillae. On the ventral surface between each two 

 segments from xv-xx, but encroaching more or less upon these, is 

 a pair of contiguous nearly circular or elliptical eminences or 

 papillae, one on either side of the median line, their summits with 

 a pore-like depression ; those of the third and fourth pairs (between 

 XVII and xviii, and xviii and xix) much depressed, and less conspi- 

 cuous, and with an additional very conspicuous papilla immediately 

 dorsad of each of them — the posterior pair of which probably carry 



