THE ANNALS 
AND 
MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 
[FIFTH SERIES. ] 
No. 70. OCTOBER 1883. 
XXV.—WNote on some Earthworms from India. By FRANK 
E. Bepparp, M.A. Oxon., F.R.S.E., Naturalist to the 
‘ Challenger’ Commission. 
[Plate VIII.) 
I am indebted to the kindness of Professor M‘Intosh for the 
opportunity of studying a number of earthworms, collected 
chiefly in the neighbourhood of Calcutta, which had been sent 
to him from the Indian Museum at Calcutta for identification. 
He requested me to report upon them; and the following 
description relates to these specimens. 
The collection contained four recognizable species—Mega- 
scolex affinis, Pericheta armata, Perionyx M‘Intoshii, and Ty- 
pheus orientalis, of which the ‘last three are apparently new 
to science. ‘There was also a bottle filled with a number of 
earthworms which were not sufficiently well preserved to 
enable me to determine the species; they were, however, 
evidently members of the genus Megascolex or Pericheta. 
I received also a quantity of “ castings,” precisely similar 
to those figured and described by Mr. Darwin in his work on 
Earthworms, from beneath which all the specimens in the 
collection, with the exception of Pertonyx M‘Intoshit, had been 
gathered. 
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