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Part VIII.—EARTHWORMS. 
By J. STEPHENSON, D.Sc., Major, I.M.S., Professor of Biology, 
Government College, Lahore. 
I received from the Indian Museum in November, Igri, four 
tubes containing earthworms, collected by Mr. J. Coggin Brown 
of the Geological Survey of India, in Yunnan and the Shan States. 
Of these one tube contained a single specimen, which, owing to its 
being sexually quite immature, was unidentifiable. The rest were 
all species of Pheretima. 
PHERETIMA BROWNI, Sp. nov. 
A large number of specimens, all in a bad state of preserva- 
tion, owing apparently to the whole of the specimens having been 
placed in far too small a quantity of preservative fluid. 
Tengyueh, Yunnan. 
EXTERNAL CHARACTERS.—Leneth 4 inches; maximum breadth 
3 mm.; segments about 108. Colour dark brown, often with a purple 
tinge. 
Prostomium small, prolobous. 
First dorsal pore in the intersegmental furrow !!/,,. 
Clitellum xiv—xvi=3,; no trace of annulation and no sete 
visible on the clitellum. 
Male apertures on segment xviii, nearly one-third of the 
circumference apart, with 12 setee intervening. The apertures are 
large, and are not situated on papille 
Female aperture median, anteriorly in segment xiv. 
Spermathecal apertures in furrows 1/, and °/,. 
No genital papillae or other special marks. 
The sete form a ring which is closed ventrally, and almost 
closed dorsally ; the setz are a little closer together ventrally than 
laterally and dorsally, and those of segments iv—ix are enlarged. 
Mumrbers onsetese— (FSM - watt) siya) sixs 
INTERNAL ANATOMY.—The septa are so softened that it is 
impossible to tell which are thickened, probably °/, and '/,, possibly 
also '°/,, and |'/,, are stouter than the rest; and */, is probably 
absent, 
