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Described from a single example taken by Mr. Bell- 
Marley at Krantzkloof, Natal, July 1910. 
Platynus (Anchomenus) zuluanus, sp. n. 
Length 73-8 mm. ; width 23-3 mm. 
Head, prothorax, labrum, and mandibles piceous red, the 
head a shade darker than the other parts ; first three and 
tips of ultimate joimts of antenne, palpi, and legs light 
testaceous brown, the remaining joints of antenn:ze, annulets 
on terminal joints of palpi, the femora about knees, the 
tibize above, and tarsi at apices of joints infuscated or more 
deeply browned. LElytra greenish black, senescent, very 
shiny, outer margins and beneath rufo-testaceous. 
Head smooth, frons shallowly grooved on either side 
above epistome. 
Prothorax narrow, as long as wide, much narrower in the 
posterior than in the anterior parts, apical angles declivous, 
prominent, moderately sharp, sides reflex-margined, gently 
ampliated to about middle, thence sinuately narrowed to 
the basal angles, which are somewhat obtuse and recurved, 
disc smooth or hardly perceptibly aciculate, a little convex 
medially, lateral basal sulci elongate and parallel to 
margins, median groove deep reaching from apex to a little 
above base. 
Elytra at base nearly twice as wide as prothorax, shoulders 
rounded, sides (male) very slightly, (female) a trifle more 
ampliated, broadly rounded to and a little sinuated before 
apices, very finely striate, intervals plane and smooth, 
seriate punctures on third intervals very faint, one near base 
impinging on the fourth stria, a second a little postmedian, 
and two others near together on the apical declivity. 
In the narrowness of the elytra, not in its contour, it 
approximates to P. alacer, but in its less elongate legs and 
other charecteristics it is far removed from that species. 
Of the South-African species known to me its nearest allies 
are P. letulus, Pér., and P. fallaciosus, Pér. 
I1I.—Some new Species of Earthworms belonging to the 
Genus Glyphidrilus. By C. R. Narayan Rao, M.A., 
University of Mysore, Bangalore. 
Accoxpine to the published records, the following species 
represent the family Glossoscolecide in India: Pontoscolex 
corethrurus, Criodrilus lacuum, C. bathybates, Glyphidrilus 
annandalei, and G. tuberosus. This paper discusses four 
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