344 Records of the Indian Museum. [VOL.22er: 
The spermathecae are one pair. The ampulla is large, globu- 
lar, and sessile on the bodywall, without duct. A complete 
circle of relatively large, round, oval, or somewhat irregular diver- 
ticula surround the base of the ampulla; in one specimen these 
were eight in number on either side and each was attached by a 
stalk to the base of the ampulla; in another the diverticula, fif- 
teen in number, were not separable, being bound together by 
fibrous tissue at their contiguous margins, and so appearing as a 
continuous ring lobed peripherally. 
The penial setae (fig. 34) are g mm. long and 17, broad at 
the middle of the shaft. The shaft shows a slight curvature, 
rather more marked towards the free end; the tip is bluntly poin- 
ted. The ornamentation consists of a number of extremely fine 
sculpturings,—short transverse rows of fine points, near the tip 
and over the distal part of the shaft. 
Remarks.—The variety may be distinguished from the typical 
form by the greater number of the genital markings, the much 
shorter prostates, and especially the complete ring of diverticula 
at the base of the spermathecal ampulla. The penial setae are 
not known in the typical form. 
Gen. Eudichogaster. 
Eudichogaster bengalensis, Mchlsn. 
Bed of the Chitartala (branch of the Mahanadi), near Kenduapatna, 
Cuttack, 25-iii-1g10 (B. L. Chaudhuri). A number of specimens. 
I subjoin a few notes in order to supplement the original des- 
cription by Michaelsen (14). 
The first dorsal pore I found to be in furrow 11/12. 
The penial setae, in length 7 to ‘8 mm., and in diameter 
16, have a slightly bowed shaft and a tapering, rather more 
strongly curved blunt tip; the extremity is blunt. Near the distal 
end are a number of fine spines, rather irregularly arranged in 
about half a dozen transverse rows, and scattered spines are con- 
tinued for some little distance along the shaft. The end could not 
be described as claw-like; all the spines are very small, and there 
was no circle of larger spines round the tip, as is described and 
figured by Michaelsen. 
‘The spermathecal duct was not sharply set off from the 
ampulla, and the ducts of the two diverticula did not, in the 
specimen examined, join together before entering the main duct. 
The calcareous glands are of interest in connection with the 
definition and position of the genus. The bulgings of the oeso- 
phagus in segments x—xiii are thin-walled and not at all set off 
from the lateral walls of the oesophagus; they are not calcareous 
glands any more than the similar part of the tube in, for example. 
Pheretima posthuma is a series of calcareous glands. On opening 
this part of the tube through its whole length all four segments 
