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PHERETIMA VULGARIS Chen, 1930 



A good species if the account of the typical forms is correctly inter- 

 preted, distinguished from P. guillelmi, with which Chen has lately 

 (1933), confused it, by the characteristic club-shaped copulatory 

 chambers as well as by the spermathecal invaginations. 



Fig. 15. — Pherclinia vulgaris. Spermathecal duct and ectal portion of divertic- 

 ulum. X ca. 36. 



P. pingi Michaelsen, 1931, and P. kiangensis Michaelsen, 1931, are 

 probably, at least in part, synonymous with P. vulgaris; some of the 

 Hamburg specimens labelled P. pingi and P. kiangensis are obviously 

 P. vulgaris. An aclitellate specimen from Ichang in Hupeh, referred 

 by Fang to P. vulgaris, is correctly identified, but specimens from 

 Peiping referred to P. vulgaris by Fang cannot be properly placed. 



LITERATURE CITED 

 Chen, Y. 



1933- A preliminary survey of the earthworms of the lower Yangtze valley. 

 Contr. Biol. Lab. Sci. Soc. China, vol. 9, no. 6. 

 Gates, G. E. 



1932. The earthworms of Burma. III. The Megascolecinae. Rec. Indian 

 Mus., vol. 34, pt. 4. 

 Stephenson, J. 



1933- Oligochaeta from Australia, North Carolina, and other parts of the 

 world. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1932. 



