THE ANNALS 



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MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[SEVENTH SERIES.] 

 No. 10. OCTOBER 1898. 



XXXII. — On some new Earthworms in the British Museum. 

 By Daniel Rosa, D.Sc, Assistant in the Royal Zoological 

 Museum, Turin. 



[Plate IX.] 



THROUGH the kindness of Prof. Jeffrey Bell I have received 

 for identification a small collection of earthworms from various 

 parts of the world. 



In this collection, which belongs to the British Museum, 

 fourteen species are represented, of which seven prove to 

 be new to science. These species I propose to describe in 

 the following pages. Mention will also be made of the 

 already-known species in this collection and of their localities. 



Anteus potarensis, sp. n. (PI. IX. figs. 1-3.) 



Hab. Higher Potaro River Districts (British Guiana). 

 Collected by Rose Lloyd ; presented by J. J. Quelch, Esq. 



The examination of this worm has convinced me that the 

 conclusions I had arrived at* regarding the general characters 

 of the genus Anteus were correct. In my chapter on the 



* Mem. R. Accad. Sc. di Torino, ser. ii. t. xlv. 1895, p. 115. 

 Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 7. Vol. ii. 20 



