276 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vor. VII, 
The present species has not so far been recorded from India. 
Since in the specimen here described there are certain fairly well 
marked differences from the typical form,—in size, in the presence 
of sete on the clitellum, in the details of the spermathecal 
apparatus,—it appears advisable to describe it as a separate 
variety. 
The figure of the spermathecal apparatus may be compared 
with that given in the original description of the worm (Michaelsen, 
Arch. ftir Naturgesch., vol. 58, 1892), the gizzard is there said to 
occupy segments ix—x, and the hearts to be situated in segments 
X—Xil. 
PHERETIMA HAWAYANA (Rosa). 
This species has been previously described under a number of 
different names (cf. Beddard, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1900, p. 
645), from many different countries. The species is apparently a 
variable one, and one form, previously described separately as 
P. barbadensis (Bedd.), but included in P. hawayana by Beddard 
in the paper just referred to, is considered by Michaelsen to have 
the value of a subspecies (Michaelsen, Mem. Ind. Mus., vol. 1, 
No. 3, 1909, p. 187). 
I give a fairly complete description of the specimens in the 
present collection, since they are of interest from the fact that 
they are in some ways intermediate between the typical form of 
P. hawayana and the subspecies barbadensis, and hence help to 
confirm Beddard’s view as to the specific identify of the two. 
Six specimens, in a tube with a single specimen of P. divergens 
var. yunnanensts. 
Tengyueh, Yunnan. 
EXTERNAL CHARACTERS.—Length 2—4 inches; breadth 3—4 
mm.; segments 88—go. Colour of most of the specimens a dirty 
yellowish brown. 
Pyostomium epilobous '/,; sometimes with a transverse fissure 
in addition completing the anterior boundary of segment i, 7.e. 
a combined prolobus and epilobous condition. 
First dorsal pore in intersegmental furrow !"/,,. 
Clitellum includes segments xiv—xvi=3; without sete. 
Male pores on xviii, */, of the circumference apart on small or 
very small papille. 
Female pore on xiv, mid-ventral, in a transversely extended 
depression. 
Spermathecal apertures three pairs, in furrows °/,, 9/,, "/.- 
Genital papilla, etc.—Internal to the male apertures on 
segment xviii, and either in the same transverse line with them or 
at a slightly posterior level, were a number of small pigmented 
spots, either one or two on each side. These had, except in one 
case, the character of depressions; in only the one exception was 
the spot a papilla. When more than one spot was present, they 
were separate, not fused. 
