82 Records of the Indian Museum.  [Vot,. V, 1910.] 
POLYCHATE WORMS. 
“ Matla bengalensis”?: A CORRECTION.—In a previous number 
of this Journal (Rec. Ind. Mus., vol. ti, p. 39) I gave a description 
of a form which Isupposed to belong to a new genus of the Naidide. 
The animals, discovered in the brackish ponds at Port Canning, 
showed no sexual organs; but on the other hand asexual reproduc- 
tion was equally not to be observed. 
Last summer, while working at the Millport Marine Biolo- 
gical Station on the west coast of Scotland, I came across count- 
less numbers of Capitella capitata; and on examining a number of 
very young forms, I was surprised to find that they resembled in 
an extraordinary degree my previous specimens of Matla. 
By a curious coincidence I received within the following week 
a letter from Prof. Michaelsen of Hamburg, in which he wrote that, 
after reading the description of Matla, he was of opinion that it 
was no Oligochete but a Polychete belonging to the Capitellide. 
It is easy to see that the fact that my Port Canning specimens 
showed no signs of asexual division ought to have put me on my 
guard. I think there can be no doubt that the worms were very 
young specimens of a Capitellid, and hence that the name given 
to them ought now to disappear. 
J. STEPHENSON. 
