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their walls strongly ridged internally. The oesophagus is narrow 

 between the prostates. The intestine begins in xix. The intes- 

 tinal walls are very delicate and transparent ; there are no caeca, 

 nor lymph-glands on the intestine. 



The last heart is in segment xiii. 



Meganephridia exist in all segments as far forwards as ii ; in 

 addition, in the post-genital segments, there are a number of 

 minute micronephridia in regular transverse lines on the body- wall, 

 especially ventrally, in the neighbourhood of the meganephridia. 

 In the softened specimen the micronephridia are barely indicated, 

 through disintegration. 



The testes are two pairs, in x and xi ; the funnels, in the 

 same segments, are large, iridescent and much folded rosettes. 

 The vasa deferentia were not traceable 



The vesiculae seminales are two pairs, in xi and xii, depend- 

 ing from the anterior septa of their respective segments. They 

 are large, and fill up the whole length of the segment, those in xii 

 causing a backward bulging of septum tI. Those in xi are com- 

 pletely fused in this situation. 



The prostates take up segment xviii ; each is a hemispherical 

 mass, the flat surfaces facing inwards and apposed to each other. 

 Each gland is made up of a large number of small lobules ; the 

 appearance of the whole is thus roughly granular. The gland is 

 of considerable size ; hence the septa in front and behind are 

 bulged forwards and backwards respectively, and the segment 

 containing the prostates encroaches on its neighbours. The duct 

 is long and coiled, the coils closely applied to each other on the 

 inner face of the gland ; the last portion of the duct is thicker, 

 and has a vertical position in the segment, running downwards to 

 the external opening not far from the middle line. 



The ovaries are of moderate size, in segment xiii. The 

 funnels are small ; I could not trace the oviducts. 



The spermathecae are three pairs, in segments vii, viii and 

 ix. They are large, sausage-shaped, and immediately obvious 

 on opening the specimen, since they fill up the greater part of 

 their segments at the side of the oesophagus, and, bemg placed 

 with their long axes vertically, each almost or quite meets its 

 fellow of the opposite side dorsally to the alimentary tube. The 

 duct is short and moderately stout. Two or more very small 

 diverticula spring from the lower part of the ampulla, on which 

 they are sessile, above the duct; these small diverticula maj'' 

 or may not be themselves divided into minute lobes. 



The abnormal specimen already referred to showed the 

 following peculiarities. The dorsal process of the prostomium 

 was limited posteriorly by a transverse groove ; the first dorsal 

 pore was in furrow ji, the gizzard in segments vii and viii, and 

 the last heart in xvi. The niale apertures were on segment xx; 

 there were three pairs of testes and of large folded funnels, in 

 segments xii, xiii and xiv ; and two pairs of well-developed 



