340 Records of the Indian Museum. [Voi,. X, 



transversel37 , and hence it is impossible to discover whether thej^ 

 are modified in any way ; the mode of sectioning, however, has the 

 advantage that it allows a very pretty demonstration of the exact 

 relations of ducts and setae. 



The ovaries and their funnels are in segment xiii. The 

 spermathecae are in ix, the apertures being in f, in line with setae 

 a) the ampulla is pearshaped; two short diverticula are given off 

 from the duct. On one side the two diverticula arise separately 

 from the duct, on the other by a common stalk. 



Michaelsen (8) has recently subsumed under the one head of 

 M. phosphoreus no fewer than six forms previously accounted 

 distinct. The diagnoses of these six forms {cf. Michaelsen, 3) 

 differed in such details as the relations of the male pores and 

 spermathecal poies to the lines of the setae, the presence of one 

 or of two diverticula of the spermathecae, and the degree of 

 development of the gizzard. So far as these dift'erent diagnoses 

 have an}^ value, the present form seems to approach most closel}- 

 to the description of M. hefnpeli F. Smith, and differs from that 

 of M. phosphoreus in having two spermathecal diverticula instead 

 of a single one. 



Sub-fam. MEGASCOLECINAE. 

 Lampito mauritii, Kinb. 



Lahore, New Shahmar ; so-x-igir ; Ibrahim. 



Kapurthala (Punjab) ; July 1913 ; Ibrahim. 



The only feature worthy of note is the considerable break in 

 the setal chain ventrally {aa=2^~^ab) ; ab was as usual the 

 widest setal interval, but no regular decrease in the intervals 

 could be substantiated on travelling outwards towards the lateral 

 margins. 



This species was represented in a small collection which I 

 sent from Lahore to Dr. Michaelsen in 1907 or 1908 (4, p. 179); 

 but it must be very rare near Lahore, since the capture of a single 

 specimen in 1911 constitutes the only occasion on which it has 

 since been met with. 



Lampito trilobata, sp. nov. 



Baroda ; 2-viii-i9i2 ; Bishambar Das. 



Length 86 mm. ; breadth maximum 4 mm. Colour light 

 brown dorsally, with, behind the clitellum, a mid-dorsal purplish 

 streak ; pale laterally and ventrally. Ventral surface flattened. 

 Segments 160 ; only segment xiii is triannular. 



Prostomium prolobous, i.e. separated by a transverse groove 

 from segment i ; but there is also a pair of longitudinal grooves on 

 the dorsal surface of the first segment, which, extending back- 

 wards for half the length of the segment, are not connected with 

 each other behind. 



The first dorsal pore is in ii. 



