BY J. J. FLETCHER, M.A., B.SC. 545 



The segmental organs are conspicuous, and consist of coiled, 

 glandular, ciliated tubes of the usual Lumbricus type, and similarly 

 disposed, namely a pair in each of the segments excepting a few of 

 the most anterior ones. The external apertures of these organs are 

 not discernible in the specimens I have examine.d, but in specimens 

 of a worm from Mr. Macleay's garden differing from those described 

 in colour and in the number of segments comprised by the clitellum, 

 they are easily seen as a row of pores on each side, on the anterior 

 margins of the segments, just dorsad of the second row of bristles 

 on each side. 



Hab. Sydney, Seven Hills near Parramatta, Picton, Wagga 

 Wagga, Guntawang near Mudgee, Turon River near Capertee 

 (2700 ft. above sea level), N. S. W. 



Obs. This worm seems to prefer poor and medium soils. I 

 have never found it either at Burrawang or Mt. Wilson, nor do I 

 know whether it is found in any of the other colonies. The 

 specimens from Wagga were from gardens, about drains, tanks, 

 and damp places in paddocks ; the Guntawang specimens were 

 collected over a large extent of country, both from cultivated and 

 from virgin soil, and from clayey flats on the banks of the 

 Cudgegong River. 



Of the two other anteclitellian worms which also occur in the 

 Elizabeth Bay gardens, one has the characters of the European L. 

 olidus as follows : — Prostomium pear-shaped, extending back on the 

 buccal segment for about half its width, number of segments about 

 80, the lateral and dorsal portions of the middle of each segment a 

 dark red, the anterior and posterior margins being yellowish or 

 white, ventral surface white, clitellum of about six segments from 

 xxv to xxx or xxxir, lighter in colour than the other portions of the 

 body, male pores on xv, setae in eight rows of four pairs. This 

 worm is very partial to manure heaps, and emits an unpleasant foetid 

 odour. Mr. Masters informs me that birds will not knowingly 

 touch it, and that, if by first feeding some tame curlews in his 

 gardens with ordinary worms he beguiles them into taking one 

 the foetid worms, it is instantly rejected with evident disgust. The 



