MONILIGASTER GRANDIS, A. G. B. 375 
Remarks upon previously described Species. 
M. houteni differs from all my species in the long tubular 
prostate, about which there can be no mistake ; it is evidently 
more like one of the prostates of Desmogaster. With regard 
to the numbering of the segments I say nothing. 
M. barwelli has been described piecemeal, and even now I 
am unable to be quite sure whether it is the same as M. 
minuta. I presume not, as the spermathecopores are in a 
different position. 
M. beddardi is obviously not M. parva, and it could be 
no other known species. 
M. deshayesi is lost in obscurity, and unless by means of 
the type specimen there will be little chance of identifying it. 
1 have found one species of Moniligaster in Ceylon among some 
thirty species of other genera, so that Moniligaster is not the 
dominant genus in Ceylon, even in the hills, that it is in 
S. India (at any rate on the Nilgiris). My notes of this 
Ceylon specimen are insufficient. I refrain, therefore, from 
naming it at present, and give an external figure only, for future 
reference. Its colouring distinguishes it from all my other 
species. The gizzard occupies Segments xv—xvitt. I obtained 
one specimen only at Kandy. ao ets 
M. bahamensis is at present very insufficiently charac- 
terised. I have gathered most of the characters mentioned 
above from the figures. : 
BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
The Moniligastride. 
1. PERRIER.—“ Recherches pour servir a Vhistoire des Lombriciens ter- 
restres,” ‘ Nouvelles Archives du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle de 
Paris,’ t. viii, 1872. 
2. Bepparp.—“ Notes on some Karthworms from Ceylon and the Philip- 
pine Islands, including a Description of Two New Species,” ‘ Annals 
and Magazine of Natural History,’ ser. 5, vol. xvii, 1886. 
