BY J. J. FLETCHER, M.A., B.SC. 539 



funnels are in segments x and xi. A similar condition has been 

 described by Perrier as occurring in Pontodrilus and others, and 

 by Beddard in Acanthodrilus. 



In the following list the three described species are included. 



A. ANTECLITELLIAN WORMS. 



1. Lumbricus Nov;E-Hollandi.e, Kinberg. 



Lumbricus Novce-Hollandice, Annulata nova, Ofversigt af Kongl. 

 Vet. Akad. Forhand. Stockholm, 1866, p. 95. 



As there appears to be no copy of Kinberg's paper in the colony, 

 and in neither of the abstracts available are the specific characters 

 of the worm mentioned, all I can learn about it is, that Kinberg did 

 describe a species of Lumbricus from Sydney. Professors Perrier and 

 Lankester, however, both speak of Kinberg's descriptions as being 

 insufficient being founded wholly on external characters, (1) the 

 former writer also stating that Kinberg was unable to identify the 

 male pores in the Australian Lumbricus ; hence a fuller description 

 of it is both desirable and necessary. 



The commonest species of earthworm about Sydney is a 

 Lumbricus (or Allobophora of Eisen), and it appears to be widely 

 distributed in this colony, for I have received specimens of it from 

 Picton, from Wagga Wagga, and from Guntawang near Mud gee, 

 and I have found it on the banks of the Turon River near Capertee, 

 and at Seven Hills near Parramatta (2). There can be, I think, little 

 doubt that this is the species to which the examples examined by 

 Kinberg, belong, because I have not been able to meet with any 

 other worms referable to this genus except from the Hon. W. 

 Macleay's garden at Elizabeth Bay, one of the oldest-established 

 gardens in Australia, and to which plants have been brought from 

 many parts of the world. In this and in a neighbouring garden 



(1) Perrier loc. cit. p. 33, and Lankester Phil. Trans. Vol. 163, p. 265. 



(2) Since the above was in type I have received specimens of this worm 

 from Bowning near Yass, kindly sent to me by Mr. J. Mitchell. 



