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JUN 14 1893 



A NEW SPECIES OF MONILIGASTER FEOM INDIA. 361 



Description of a New Species of Moniligaster 

 from India. 



By 



1¥. Blaxland Benliani, D.^cLoud., 



Aldrichiau Demonstrator of Comparative Anatomy in the University of 

 Oxford. 



With Plate XXXII. 



In June of the present year, 1892, my friend Professor 

 Bell sent me a specimen of a worm collected on the Nilgiris 

 by Mr. T. E. Henderson, which forms a new species of the 

 genus Moniligaster, Perrier, and for which I propose the 

 name M. indicus. 



At first I imagined that it would be one of Dr. Bourne's 

 species, but it agrees with none of them in the few — the very 

 few — characters given by him ; he practically only gives the 

 position of the gizzard in his seven species, and even this in 

 such a way as is scarcely sufficient for identification ; for 

 he does not state how many constrictions are present, i.e. 

 whether there is a separate portion of gizzard to each 

 somite passed through. We await impatiently a more detailed 

 description of the several interesting species, especially of M. 

 sapphirinaoides, which has been so long promised to us. 



The position of the various genital pores in Moniligaster 

 by the repeated contributions of Mr. Beddard (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), 

 as well as by those of Rosa, Bourne, and Michaelsen, has now 

 become definitely ascertained ; and 1 much regret that my 

 figure representing the genital organs of this genus, published 

 in my " Attempt to classify Earthworms," on p. 295, is 



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