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NOTE XVII. 



NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS 



MEGASCOLEX TEMPLETON (PERICHAETA 



SCHMAEDA) 



[N THE COLLECTIONS OF THE LEYDEN MUSEUM 



BY 



Dr. R. HORST. 



Haviag completed the examinatioa of the Earthworms, 

 brought home by the Sumatra-Expedition ^) and destined 

 to be deposited in the collections of the Leyden Museum , 

 I was surprised to find in the latter some specimens 

 of tropical Lumbricina, hitherto not described. These spe- 

 cimens, being collected a long time ago by von Siebold, 

 Kuhl & van Hasselt and Horstock , are not in a very 

 good state of preservation (as was also the case with the 

 worms from the Sumatra-expedition), and so I regret to be 

 not able to give always so exact a description , as should 

 be desirable. Before undertaking the description of the dilfe- 

 rent species , it will be necessary to give some details about 

 the history of the genus Meguscolex , because there seems to 

 exist a good deal of confusion concerning that generic title. 

 The genus Megascolex has been based by Robert Templeton ^), 



1) Midden-Sumatra, IV. Natuurl. Historie, 12e Afd. Vermes, door R. Horst. 

 ■i) Ann. ii. Mag. N. H, Vol. XV, p. 59. (in press. 



Notes trotn the Leyden ]y[uigeuixi, 'Vol. V. 



