Prelimlmcri/ Notice of Vlc'or'mn EarthworrtiH. 28 



Ovaries in seo'ment 13, into which the oviducts open. 



Spermathecpe, five pairs, in segments -5-9, gradually 

 increasing in size from before backwards. Each consisting 

 of a sac, with a short blunt rounded diverticulum. 



Habitat. Mt. Goonmurk, Croajingolong. Whilst collect- 

 ing in Croajingolong I only found this interesting form, the 

 colouring of which renders it at once noticeable, under logs 

 at the head of a fern gully on iVlt. Goonmurk, at an elevation 

 of about 3500 feet. Mt. Goonmurk forms part of the 

 Dividing Range which runs from east to west across 

 Victoria. 



(19) Perlchceta yarraensis, sp. n. (Figs. 61, 62, 63, 74). 

 Length of spirit specimen 5i inches, of living form 

 7 or 8 inches, breadth h inch. 



In life the body is of a dull purple colour, darker dorsally 

 than ventrally. The setpe are placed on little lighter-coloured 

 .spots. The clitellum stands out very clearl}^ in the living- 

 form, being thick and cream white in colour. 



P]-ostomium completely dovetailed into the peristouiiuni. 



Clitellum thick and strongly-marked, and extending over 

 segments 13-17. The ventral surface of segments 15, 16 

 and 17 is not always white and glandular, the clitellum here 

 being then incomplete and saddle-shaped. In other specimens 

 it is complete. 



Setae. The first two setigerous segments have four on each 

 side, arranged in two couples. Back to the clitellum there 

 are two couples on each side, and in addition a fifth one 

 external to these. Occasionally, but rarelj^ an additional 

 one may be developed, but the worm can be recognised by 

 the presence of five setae on eajh side, regularly an-anged so 

 far back as the clitellum and including, at any rate, the two 

 first segments of this. Worms from four localities all show 

 this feature. Behind the clitellum the number increases to 

 10-14? on each side, arranged, save the innei-most one. very 

 irregularly. There is left a broad very iiTegular doisal space 

 fiee from set?e. 



Male pores on slight papilltB, from which penial settv may 

 iDe seen protruding, on segment 18, at the level of the 

 interval between the two inner setae of each side. 



Oviduct pores on segment 14 anterior to, and ventral of, 

 the level of the innermost seta?. 



