CHINESE EARTHWORMS — GATES 427 



may not have been quite normal {vide note on spermathecal divertic- 

 ula in description above). 



P. Upapillata (preoccupied by hipapillata Ude in 1905) is not 

 distinguished either from lucculenta or fangi by any characteristics 

 of specific value. 



PHERETIMA CHOEINA Michaelsen 



J927. Pheretitna choeina Michaelsen, Boll. Lab. Zool. Portici, vol. 21, p. 85 (type 

 locality: Lo-choei-Tong, Yunnan; type in the Hamburg Museum). 



1931. Pheretitna (Ph.) choeina Michaexsen, Lingnan Sci. Journ., vol. 8, p. 158; 

 Peking Nat. Hist. Bull., vol. 5, pt. 3, p. 3. 



Material examined. — From the Hamburg Museum: Contents of a 

 tube labeled "V 10424. Pheretima choeina Mich. Lo Choei Tong, 

 Yunnan, 2.3.35. F. Silvestri leg. Michaelsen ded." The tube contains 

 only a few internal organs, including two spermathecae. 



Remarks. — The seminal vesicles of xi and xii are small, little if at 

 all larger than the pseudo vesicles of xiii. The left anterior vesicle 

 is smaller than the others. The appearance of the seminal vesicles 

 and in particular of that of the left side of xi together with the ab- 

 sence of the setae on x ("Borsten am 10. Segment fehlend, wenn 

 nicht sehr klein") may perhaps be taken as evidence that the type 

 is abnormal. 



PHERETIMA CALIFORNICA Kinberg 



1867. Pheretima californica Kinbeeg, Ofv. Vet.-Akad. Forh. Stockholm, vol. 23, 



p. 102 (part) (exckuling octothecal specimens; type locality: Sausalito 



Bay, Calif.; types in the Stockholm Museum). 

 1912. Pheretima hroivnl Stephenson, Rec. Indian Mus., vol. 7, p. 274 (part) 



(excluding sexthecal specimens; type locality: Tengyueh, Yunnan; 



types in the British Museum and the Indian Museum). 

 1927. Pheretima modcsta Michaelsen, Boll. Lab. Zool. Portici, vol. 21, p. 88 



(type locality: Yi-Leang, Yunnan; type in the Hamburg Museum). 

 1931. Pheretima 'broivni Michaelsen, Lingnan Sci. Journ., vol. 8, p. 158. 

 1931. Pheretima (Ph.) browni + P. kiangensis Michaelsen, Peking Nat. Hist. 



Bull., vol. 5, pt. 3, pp. 3, 21 (type locality of kiangensis: Soochow, 



Kiangsu; types in the Hamburg Museum). 

 1931. Pheretima kiangensis Michaexsen, Zool. Jahrb. (Abt. Syst.), vol. 61, p. 



558. 

 193;l. Pheretima (Ph.) hesperidum Chen, Contr. Biol. Lab. Sci. Soc. China, 



zool. ser., vol. 7, p. 137 (part) (excluding from synonymy loehri Michael- 

 sen, 1899, and possibly though not probably sandvicensis Beddard, 



1896; Szechwan). 

 1933. Pheretima hesperidum Chen, Contr. Biol. Lab. Sci. Soc. China, zool. ser., 



vol. 7, p. 275 (Kiangsu, Chekiang, Anhwei, Kiangsi, Hupei, Hunan). 

 1935. Pheretima hesperidum Chen, Bull. Fan Inst. Biol. Peiping, vol. 6, p. 33 



(Hongkong). 

 1935. Pheretima modesta Gates, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 93, no. 3, p. 12. 



1935. Pheretima californica Gates, Lingnan Sci. Journ., vol. 14, p. 452. 



1936. Pheretima californica Chen, Contr. Biol. Lab. Sci. Soc. China, zool. ser., 



vol. 11, p. 270 (Szechwan). 



