I9I7-] J- Stephenson : Indian Oligochaeta. 385 



There are no penial setae. 



Remarks. — A curious feature of both the specimens is the 

 shifting backwards of the male apertures one segment, to xix ; this 

 is accompanied by an extension of the clitellum also (Beddard 

 describes the clitellum as including segments xiii-xix). There is 

 some doubt as to the locality from which Beddard' s (second and 

 well characterized) specimens were obtained ; in his paper he says 

 Seebpore, but subsequently (3) states that he had mislaid his 

 notes and that it might be from Darjiling ; the locality of the pre- 

 sent specimens renders this second supposition perhaps the more 

 likely of the two. 



Genus Lampito. 

 Lampito mauritii, Kinberg. 



W. 136/1. Vareeg Islet, S. side of Mormugao Bay, Portuguese India ; 

 shore collecting, under stones. August, 1916. S. W. Kemp. A 

 single specimen. 



Genus Pheretima. 

 Pheretima posthuma (L. Vaill.). 



It is scarcely necessary any longer to particularize concerning 

 the distribution of this almost ubiquitous worm, at any rate in 

 those provinces where it has already been found. I have lately 

 received, in the present collection belonging to the Indian Museum 

 and otherwise, specimens from Ludhiana (Punjab), Allahabad, 

 Agra, lyucknow (United Provinces), Rangamati (Bengal), Kierpur 

 (Bihar), as well as from Ajmere in Rajputana, a part of the 

 country of whose Oligochaete fauna; we are still in ignorance. 



A specimen from Kierpur, Purneah Dist., Bihar, showed a 

 peculiarity which is worth passing mention. This was the acces- 

 sory papilla on segment xvii on the right side. The accessory 

 papillae are as a rule present on segments xvii and xix, almost in 

 line with and somewhat resembling the papillae which bear the 

 male pores on segment xviii ; this particular papilla however 

 seemed so exactly like the true porophores that I opened the worm, 

 and found that it represented the opening of an accessory prostate, 

 instead of as usual a small bunch of cutaneous glands. This pros- 

 tate was small, and attached by a strand oE tissue to the septum in 

 front ; but it had a well-developed duct, coiled and almost as 

 thick as the one in segment xviii. 



Pheretima houlleti (E. Perrier). 



Allahabad, United Provinces. L. Karam Narain Bahl. 



Pheretima hcterochaeta (Mchlsn). 



VV. 139/1. Rangamati, Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bengal, ii-vii-1915. 

 R. Hodgart. A single specimen. 



