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Dorsal por-es present. 



Alimentary canal. Gizzard in segment 15. Vascular 

 swellings in segments 11 and 12. Calciferous glands some- 

 what ventraliy placed in segment 18. Lai'ge intestine 

 commencing in segment 17. Prominent glandular tufts 

 (pepto-nephridia ?) attached to the pharynx. 



Circulatory system. Dorsal vessel single. Hearts in 

 segments 8-13. A continuous supra -intestinal vessel in 

 segments 9-14. A lateral vessel in segments 7-13. 



Excretory system. Plectonephric. 



Reproductive system. Testes not visible, but a large 

 membranous sac on each side in segment 1 1 tilled with 

 sperm, and enclosing a prominent rosette. Probably this 

 encloses also the testes. 



Prostates flattened, rather small; mammiilated surface; in 

 segment 18. A large whitish swelling close to each duct, 

 containing penial setae. 



Sperm sacs, one pair, attached to the anterior wall of 

 segment 12. 



Ovaries in segment 13, into which the oviducts open. 



Spermathecse, two pairs, in segments 8 and 9. Each con- 

 sisting of a large sac and divei'ticulum. 



Habitat. Navre Warren. Fern Tree Gully (collected by 

 Rev. W. Fielder and Mr. Mann). Sassafras Gully (collected 

 by Mr. She})hard). Under logs, in burrows partly exposed 

 when the log is lifted, and })artly penetrating to a depth of 

 one or two feet beneath the surface. 



The first specimens of this were found by the Rev. W. 

 Fielder and Air. Shephard, and subsequently Mr. French 

 and myself found it abundantly at Narre Warren. • Its area 

 of distribution appears to be very limited, as I have never 

 found it elsewhere, or received it from other districts. 



(17) Ferichcvta frost i, sp. n. (Figs. 13, 14, 15, 71). Length 

 of spirit specimen G inches, breadth about ^ incli. 

 Number of segments about 220. 

 As in the case of F.fielderi, the worm has not the slight- 

 est resemblance in appearance to an ordinary pericha^te. It 

 resembles closely in general appearance the group of forms at 

 present classed together under the genus Qyptodrilus. In 

 spirit the body is bleached, and the clitellum of a light 

 brown colour. 



Prostomium not at all dovetailed into the peristomium. 



