372 Records of the Indian Museum. [Voi,. XIII, 



so that a needle can be passed from segment xii forwards into x 

 along the side of the gut underneath the floor of the chamber. 



The ovary is fringe-like, curving round the alimentary tube on 

 the anterior wall of the ovarian chamber. The funnel on the pos- 

 terior wall is an elongated groove with white lips, and with a 

 similar curve. The ovisacs are large ; the right extends back to 

 septum 15/16 ; the left is curved ventrally so as to pass underneath 

 the intestine, and is confined to segment xii, bulging back 

 septum 12/13. 



The spermathecal ampulla is an ovoid sac in the usual situa- 

 tion ; the duct is long and convoluted, and leaves the ampulla 

 rather below the middle of its greatest length, passing down to 

 pierce the septum and join the base of the atrium. The atrium is 

 of relatively large size ; its upper part is constituted by an elon- 

 gated ovoid sac, thin-walled, of regular shape, with a smooth surface 

 and in size longer than, but not so broad as, the spermathecal 

 ampulla ; the lower part is a duct, half as wide and slightly more 

 than half as long as the upper sac-like portion. The atrium is 

 either erect in segment vii or lies forwards on the ventral body-wall. 



Remarks : — This species again belongs to the same group as the 

 former ; but while the atrium of the spermatheca has developed 

 still further, the elongation and coiling of the prostate is less than 

 in the two forms immediately preceding. It is unfortunate that 

 the species is represented by only one example, and that hence the 

 value of the genital papillae as a distinguishing character is not 

 eas}'' to appraise. 



Drawida nepalensis, Mchlsn. 

 (PI. xvi, fig. 4). 



VV. 72/1. Rangamati, Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bengal. i3-vii-igi5. 



R. Hodgart, Four specimens, one larger than the rest, and sexually 



mature. 

 W. 80/1. Kierpur, Purneah Dist., Bihar; under iron tub in open field. 



io-ix-1915. C. Paiva. Nine specimens, the majority mature. 



External characters. — Length 123 mm. (70 mm. Kierpur) ; 

 diameter 5 mm. Colour light grey, almost white, nonpigmented. 

 Segments 149. 



Prostomium prolobous. 



Dorsal pores absent ; but the longitudinal muscular coat 

 shows an interval middorsally behind each furrow, easily visible 

 through the superficial layers ; these gaps are well seen from the 

 inner side of the body-wall, where they quite give the impression of 

 dorsal pores (Michaelsen, " dorsal pores apparenrly absent "). The 

 gaps are probably to be looked on as the remnants of pores. In a 

 specimen of the second batch, on stripping off the cuticle and press- 

 ing on the bod^'-wall, the spirit inside the body cavity welled out, 

 in several regions, through these pores, as seen by the diffraction 

 fines in the water in which the animal was lying ; probably in addi- 

 tion to the longitudinal muscular coat being absent, the other 



