138 Mr. FI. Friend on 
spermathecee. The prostomium is typical, and is destitute 
alike of pore and suture. No dorsal pores have been seen. 
The male pores were found on one specimen close to the 
18/L9 intersegmental groove. ~ 
Sparganophilus elongatus, Fy., Pencarrow, Cornwall. 
Natural size. 
The worm is stiff and wiry, disagreeable to the touch, and 
very irritable. The wiriness is due to the great development 
of the longitudinal muscle-layer. ‘There are, as usual, 8 sete 
on each segment, those in the ventral bundles of segments 8 
to 11 being conspicuous. Apparently these ae specially 
Fig, 2. 
Sparganophilus elongatus, Fully developed seta. Enlarged. 
developed for sexual purposes. There is a slight tendency to 
ornamentation on all the sete, whether fully developed or 
young. ri 
In one important point the new worm differs strikingly 
from Sp. tamesis, Benham. There is no “ large truncated 
conical somite carrying the dorsal anus at its end” as a py- 
gidium. The anus is lumbricid in character, and may be 
5 . . . 
described as a dorso-ventral terminal pore. The girdle is not 
