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The displaced setae of the spermathecal region are not visible 

 from inside, since their sacs are wholly imbedded in the body-wall. 

 The onl}'^ way to obtain them for examination is therefore to cut 

 out a piece of the body- wall containing some of them, and lo tease 

 it out with needles on a sHde. The ordinary setae of this region 

 are '44 mm. in length and 251" in thickness below the nodulus ; they 

 have the usual curve, the tip is blunt, the nodulus is distal to the 

 middle of the shaft; there are a few extremely fine sculpturings, 

 — short transverse rows of dots, — scattered near the tip. The dis- 

 placed setae are rather longer and slenderer, — '49 mm. in length 

 and 24/^ in thickness ; the tip is sharper, the distal portion tapers 

 gradually, there is no distinct nodulus, and the proximal end of 

 the shaft is bent in the opposite way from that of the normal seta, 

 i.e. the curve is in the same direction as the distal curve, not 

 in the opposite as usual ; transverse sculpturings, well marked and 

 extending for some distance along the shaft, ornament the distal 

 end, but these transverse markings are not arranged in regular 

 rings, 



Hoplochaetella kempi, sp. nov. 

 (PI. xvii, figs. 15, 16). 



W. 68/1. Talewadi, near Castle Rock, N. Kanara Dist., Bombay Pres., 

 October igi6. S. Kemp. Nine specimens. 



External characters. — The largest specimen was 10.^, mm. long 

 and 4*5 mm. in thickness. Colour a rich brown above with darker 

 middorsal stripe ; pale ventrally, the setae on whitish rings. 

 Segments 106. 



Prostomium very variable, epilobous | to | ; broad and trian- 

 gular, or narrow and with parallel sides. 



Dorsal pores commence from furrow 6/7, 



The setae in rings ; ventrally aa = 2,\ah behind the clitellum, 

 and about 2ah in front, — but ab itself is somewhat variable ; dor- 

 sally zz = 2 to '^yz, but here again the middorsal interval and in- 

 tersetal spaces are irregular, and this is the case laterally too. 

 The intersetal spaces are greater, on the average, dorsally than 

 ventrally throughout the body. The following numbers were 

 counted :— 52/v. 56/x.. 45/xx, and 44 in the middle of the body. 



The clitellum extends over segments ^xiii-xvi -= 3^ ; it is 

 darker in colour than the general surface, and is smooth, but setae 

 and dorsal pores are present. 



The ventral surface is concave over segments xvii-xix. The 

 prostatic pores are two pairs of well-defined pits, in furrows 17/18 

 and 18/19 , these are fairly deep, transversely oval in shape, and in 

 length from side to side about equal to two intersetal intervals ; 

 the midventral interval between the pits of the same pair is greater 

 than the long diameter of the pits, but less than twice the dia- 

 meter; the actual apertures are probably at the bottom of the 

 pits, — this was seen to be the case in the posterior pair. 



Conspicuous on the male field, in the specimen first examined, 

 are two large broadly oval papillae, each surrounded by a deep 



