194 MEGASCOLEX SCHMARDAE. 



The llth, 12tli and 13tli septum are extraordinaily thick 

 and muscular. Like in Megascolex Sieholdi the intestine 

 is provided on each side of the 26th segment with six 

 caeca , of which the superior is the longest ; however this 

 seems to be not a constant characteristic , in one of the 

 specimens only the superior caecum being present. 



Colour : above greyish-blue , lead-coloured , underside pa- 

 ler , rufous ; girdle brownish ; genital pores , mouth and 

 vent yellowish. 



Length 570 m.m. ; circumference of the body directly 

 behind the girdle 48 m.m. ; number of segments 166. 



Hab. Java (Kuhl & van Hasselt, Vorderman). 



According the observations of Mr. Vorderman , who was 

 kind enough to forward] me two specimens for examination , 

 those worms are living in the high mountain forests and 

 make a sharp interrupted noise during the night. 



Indigenous name »tjatjing sondarie". 



Megascolex Schmardae n. s. 



Cephalic lobe reaching about half the buccal seg- 

 ment. 



Orifices of the copulatory pouches situated between the 

 7th and 8th, 8th and 9th segment; opening of the ovi- 

 duct indistinct. The number of setae on each segment 

 amounts to 62 or 64 ; on the girdle they are Avanting. 

 The two pairs of copulatory pouches are placed in the 

 7th and 8th ring; each pouch consists of two parts, a 

 large globular vesicle, with a short duct and a modera- 

 tely long tube, rolled together near its end in two or 

 more windings. Testicular sacs in the llth and 12th 

 segment; each sac bears at its superior side a small 

 lobe, situated within the common coat, but clearly distin- 

 guished from the remaining of the seminal vesicle by its 

 white colour. The vasa deferentia are provided with 

 two funnel-shaped mouths, one placed in the llth, the 

 other in the 12tli ring. There is on each side a large 



Notes Iroiii tlic Lieytlen IMusciini, Vol. "V. 



