3/6 Records of the Indian Museum. Vol. VIII, 



Drawida kempi, sp. nov. 



Egar stream, between Renging and Rotung, under stone in water ; g-i- 

 1912. A single specimen. 



Length 3 inches; diameters mm. Colour Hght oHve green. 

 Segments 125 ; no secondary annulation. 



Prostomium small, under cover of segment i, prolobous. 



No dorsal pores. 



Setae closely paired ; anteriorly aa=Sab=bc=8cd, dd=r of 

 circumference ; in the posterior part of the body the ventral pairs 

 of setae become approximated, aa being reduced. 



No clitellum was visible on the dorsal surface ; it was 

 possibly represented ventrally by a slight apparent thickening of 

 segments x and xi. 



The male apertures are situated on small papillae in inter- 

 segmental groove }-}; the centre of each papilla is just within the 

 line of setae c. Around each papilla is a slightly darker area of skin, 

 which extends on each side in a transverse direction from the line 

 of setae b outwards to beyond the line of <^; in a longitudinal 

 direction each area extends over the greater part of segments x 

 and xi, being however longer (antero-posteriorly) at its outer than 

 its inner limit. Each area is slightly depressed along its anterior 

 and posterior borders, so as to form a couple of shallow grooves. 



The female apertures are minute, in H, in the line of setae b. 



The spermathecal apertures are one pair, small, in groove i, 

 between the lines c and d, or perhaps rather in c ; the setae in this 

 region in the specimen are few, and exact estimation of the 

 position difhcult. 



The first septum is u ; in front of this the retractor muscles 

 of the pharynx have the arrangement in successive transverse 

 sheets which has been noticed in the previous species. Septa I, 

 T, i, t are thickened, the last most so. The rest of the septa are 

 thin (or, in this specimen, softened from defective preservation). 



There are no calcareous glands. There are four gizzards, in 

 segments xvi — xix ; of these the three posterior are large, round, 

 and well-developed, while that in xvi is smaller. In xv a thick- 

 ened portion of the oesophagus, with strong longitudinal muscular 

 fibres, marked off by a slight constriction from the gizzard in xvi, 

 might rank as a rudimentary gizzard Even in xiv the oesophagus 

 is still thicker than normal. 



The last heart is in segment ix. 



The nephridia have the same arrangement in relation to the 

 septa as has been described in previous species. 



The sperm sacs are large yellowish masses, suspended and 

 constricted by septum to ; approximately equal portions of the 

 sac are situated in each segment (ix and x). The vas deferens is 

 a fme tube, not very much coiled, running down the posterior 

 face of the septum to the body-wall ; it then enters the prostate 

 at the lower and inner margin of the latter (in the position in 



