294 DESCRIPTIONS OF EARTHWORMS. 



segment, beginning from the 13th, a narrow tranverse 

 strip, consisting of tufts of faint coiled tubes. In the 5th, 

 Cth and 7th segment there are three pairs of racemous 

 glands , made up of numerous loop-like coiled tubules , 

 supplied by a network of capillaries , which show several 

 dilatations in their course; their structure is quite similar 

 to that of the » grape-like glands" in Trigaster Lankesteri, 

 circumstantially described and illustrated by Mr. Benham ^). 



On AUobophora Oerleyi, u. sp. 



Lumbricus terrestris , var. platyurus Oerley ; A magya- 

 rorszagi Oligochaetak Faunaja, I, Terricolae, p. 583, pi. I, 

 fig. l,d. 



We owe to the kindness of Dr. L. Oerley a fine collec- 

 tion of earthworms from Hungary, enumerated and descri- 

 bed by him in the above-named catalogue ^). Among these 

 worms there are three specimens , labelled Lumbricus ter- 

 restris , var. platyurus mihi. From a careful examination of 

 these specimens I must conclude, that they cannot be as- 

 signed to the genus Lumbricus , neither can be identified , 

 so far I am aware of, with one of the hitherto described 

 species. 



The individuals before me measure from 100 to 120 m.m. 

 in length ; the number of their segments is about 145. 

 The body is cylindrical , somewhat octogonal , resulting 

 from the presence of eight prominent series of bristles ; 

 it is nearly equally broad over its whole length , only its 

 anterior portion before the girdle being somewhat thickened. 

 The cephalic lobe is broad , triangular, impinging over 

 the half of the buccal segment , without a longitudinal 

 groove at the ventral side. Each segment is furnished with 

 a transverse groove over its middle. The dorsal pores are 



1) Loc. cit. p. 96, pi. IX, fig. 35 and 36. 



2) 1 regret not to be able to understand Mr. Oerley's diagnosis , these being 

 written in the Hungarian tongue. 



Notes from th.e Leyden Museum , Vol. IX. 



