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Lumbricus xanthurus, Templeton in Loud. Mag. Nat. Hist. ix. 235. 

 The Gilt-tail or Tag-worm, Hofland, Angl. Man. 10. 



Hab. "Found among rotten oak-bark, in old hot-beds and melon 

 frames," Templeton. 



Obs. Apparently some slight variety of L. foefidus. 



10. L. gordiamis, "of a pale rosy red." 



Lumbricus gordianus, Templeton in Loud. Mag. Nat. Hist. ix. 235. 

 Hab. "Common in cultivated sandy ground, where it is uniformly 



found contorted, assuming the appearance of a very intricate 



knot." — Templeton. 



ILL. omllums. 



Lumbricus omilurus = Omilurus rubescens, Templeton in Loud. Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. ix. 235. 



Hab. "Common in rich grounds, generally where docks grow." — 



Desc. "Body long, contractile, cylindrical, with a compressed 

 lanceolate apex, unfurnished with a belt at the position of the sexual 

 organs, each ring with very small spines projecting backwards." — "I 

 am not disposed to concur in the necessity of erecting this into a 

 genus ; but the characters separating it from the preceding species 

 (L. lividus) are obvious enough. It is never larger than half the 

 size of L. terrestris ; and is of a bright reddish-brown, with the 

 hinder part, or apex, very flat." — Templeton. k ^ I ^ 



2. ENCHYTRJEUS, Henle, 1837. 



Enchytrgeus, Henle, Ann. des Sc. nat. viii. 32; Ann. Nat. Hist. xii. 

 432. Grube, Fam. Annel. 103. 



Char. Body filiform, smooth, white, rather indistinctly annulated, 

 the segments from 30 to 70, armed with short spinets only in four 

 small fascicles, which are quadriserial : spinets 3 or 4 in a fascicle. 

 Terrestrial, living in a moist mould. Blood colourless. No mus- 

 cular stomach. 



1 . E. vermicnlaris. 



Lumbricus vermicularis, Milll. Zool. Dan. Prod. no. 2603; Verm. i. 



ii. 26. Fabric. Faun. Grcenl. 277. Flem. Phil. Zool. ii. 603. 



Johnston in Zool. Journ. iv. 421. Duges in Ann. des Sc. nat. viii. 



32 (1837). 

 Lumbricus putredinis. Hardy in Proc. Berw. Nat. Club, ii. 335. 

 Enchytraeus vermicularis, Grube, Fam. Annel. 103. 



Hab. In the soil under the bark of rotted trees, in decaying leaves, 

 and at the roots of decayed vegetables : common. 



