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FIG. 77. Fridericia santcebarbarce. 



Locality. Two specimens from Santa Barbara, California, May, 

 1898. In garden soil. The specimens being in poor state of preser- 

 vation made it impossible to ascertain the structure of the chylus cells. 



FRIDERICIA POPOFIANA sp. nov. 

 Text-figs. 78 and 79. 



Definition. Length about 18 mm., width .5 mm. Somites over 

 45. Setae four in a fascicle, the inner ones smaller. Prostomium 

 blunt, rounded, slightly rugose. Clitellum small, not prominent, 

 XII and XIII. Copulatory papillae small. Peptonephridia with 

 thick and rather short 

 body, at the apex of 

 which are found four 

 or five branches of 

 smaller lobes. Brain 

 longer than broad, 

 anteriorly straight, 

 posteriorly convex. 

 Spermatheca with a 

 cylindrical thick am- 

 pulla which connects 

 with the intestine by FlGa 7 g. Fridericia popofiana. 



a broad opening. The 



narrow duct is about one-half longer than the pouch, and from one- 

 half to one-third as thick. There are two diverticles at the base of the 



