THE ANNALS 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[FIFTH SERIES.] 

 No. 98. FEBRUARY 1886. 



X. — Notes on some Earthwoi'ms from Ceylon and the Philvp- 

 pine Islands^ including a Description of two new Species. 

 By Frank E. Beddard, M.A., F.R.S.E., Prosector to 

 the Zoological Society of London. 



[Plate II.] 



The following notes refer to a number of earthworms which 

 I have had the opportmiity of dissecting during the past year. 

 The specimens were in no case in any tit condition for histo- 

 logical examination, and the descriptions of the rough ana- 

 tomy are in many points incomplete. I have thought, how- 

 ever, that the observations are worth publishing, because they 

 relate in two cases to new species, one of wdiich at any rate 

 {Perichmta ceylonica) possesses certain structural features 

 hitherto unknown in the genus to which it belongs. 



Pericheeta ceylonica^ n. sp. (PI. II. figs. 1-3.) 



Several species of his genus Perichceta have been described 

 by Schmarda * from the island of Ceylon ; but in no case are 

 these descriptions, although accompanied by chromo-litho- 

 graphs, of much use, since they refer only to external 

 characters, and even these are recorded in a very meagre 

 fashion. It is therefore a matter of total impossibility to 



* Keue wirbell. Tliierej Bd. ii. 

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