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on the new species was published (Gates, 1935). The paper is now 

 brought to date to the end of 1936. 



I wish to express my heartiest thanks to Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt for 

 assistance on so many occasions as well as for the opportunity of 

 examining Dr. Graham's material; to Dr. Max Thiel and Dr. Wil- 

 helm Michaelsen, of the Hamburg Museum, and Dr. C. C. A. Monro, 

 of the British Museum, for the courtesies of their institutions and for 

 personal assistance given many times; to the Metropolitan Museum 

 of China for forwarding specimens for examination ; to Y. Chen for 

 tlie opportunity of examining some of his specimens; and to the 

 authorities of the Biological Institute of Harvard University and the 

 Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Mass., for accommoda- 

 tions provided while I was engaged in the final preparation of the 

 manuscript. 



Family MONILIGASTRIDAE 



Genus DESMOGASTER Rosa 



DESMOGASTER SINENSIS Gates 



1930. Desmogaster sinensis Gates, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 10, vol. 6, p. 590 



(type locality: Soochovp; type in author's collection). 

 1933. Desmogaster sinensis Chen, Contr. Biol. Lab. Sci. Soc. China, zool. ser., 

 vol. 9, p. 180. 



Material examined. — From the U. S. National Museum : 3 aclitellate 

 specimens labeled ^'■Desmogaster sinensis Gates ; Soochow, China ; 

 identified by Y. Chen." 



Remarks. — These specimens are much smaller than the type. No 

 setae are visible on any of the worms. The spermathecal tubercles 

 are more like anteroposteriorly flattened flaps than on the type. 



The largest specimen was opened. The gizzards are three, in 

 xiv-xvi. The nephridium of one side of xiii passes at its dorsal end 

 into the ovisac, which otherwise is empty. 



Genus DRAWIDA Michaelsen 



DRAWIDA GISTI Michaelsen 



1931. Drawida gisti Miohaexsen, Peking Nat. Hist. Bull., vol. 5, pt. 3, pp. 1, 8 



(type locality: Tsinan, Shantung; types in Hamburg and Peiping 

 Museums) ; Zool. Jahrb. (Abt. Syst.), vol. 61, p. 525. 

 1935. Drawida gisti Gates, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 93, no. 3, p. 2. 



Material examined. — From the Hamburg Museum : 2 clitellate speci- 

 mens labeled "Z>. glsti.^^ 



External characteristics. — The setae begin on ii and are closely 

 paired; aa slightly less than he. 



