376 SUBANTARCTIC ISLANDS OF NEW ZEALAND. [Hirudinea. 



possibly of generic importance. The epididymis is a large compact mass of coiled 

 tube. The ductus ejaculatorius arises as a thick muscular duct, soon becoming 

 thinner, before entering the anterior face of the rounded muscular penial sac. There 

 is no " cirrus sac " nor prostate gland. The penial apparatus recalls that of 

 H. antifodum, Benham.* 



The ovisac is large ; the wide oviducts open into a small " albumen-gland," 

 whence the long muscular utero-vaginal canal passes backwards in an undulating 

 manner to the female pore. 



Locality. — Snares Island (W. B. B. ; H. Browne ; Professor Kirk). 



* Renham, " Two New Species of Leech in New Zealand," Trans. N.Z. Inst., xxix, p. 180. 



IVCYRIAPODA. 



Several specimens of Myriapods were obtained under and in logs, &c., at the 

 Auckland Islands, and a few were collected by Dr. Chilton and Mr. Chambers on 

 Campbell Island. These have not yet been identified, but it is intended to ask 

 Professor Sylvestri, of Portici, to examine them. 



There is one species of the Chilopod Cormocephalus, and one, or perhaps two, 

 species of a Diplopod belonging to the family Polydesmidae. 



These are all very similar to the New Zealand species, but as the necessary 

 literature for the work is wanting in the Dominion, and much has been done on 

 the group since the paper by Hutton on our Myriapods, it is thought better not to 

 attempt the task of naming them. 



W. B. Benham. 



