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Described from a single example taken by Mr. Bell- 

 Marley at Krautzkloof, Natal, July 1910. 



Platynus (Anchonienus) zuluanus, sp. u. 



Length 7A-8 mm. ; -width 2J-3 mm. 



Head, protlioiax, labrum, and maudiljles piccous red, the 

 head a shade darker than the other parts ; first three and 

 tips of ultimate joints of antennre, palpi, and legs light 

 testaceous brown, the remaining joints of antennte, annulets 

 on terminal joints of palpi, the femora al)out knees, the 

 tibia3 above, and tarsi at apices of joints infuscated or more 

 deeply browned. Elytra greenish black, senescent, very 

 shiny, outer margins and beneath rufo-testaceous. 



Head smooth, frous shallowly grooved on either side 

 above epistome. 



Prothorax narrow, as long as wide, much narrower in the 

 posterior than in the anterior parts, apical angles declivous, 

 prominent, moderately sharp, sides reflex-margined, gently 

 ampliated to about middle, thence siimately narrowed to 

 the basal angles, which are somewhat obtuse and recurved, 

 disc smooth or hardly perceptibly aciculate, a little convex 

 mediMlly, lateral basal sulci elongate and parallel to 

 margins, median groove deep reaching from apex to a little 

 al)ove base. 



Elytra at base nearly twice as wide as prothorax, shoulders 

 rounded, sides (male) very slightly, (female) a trifle more 

 ampliated, broadly rouuded to and a little sinuated before 

 apices, very finely striate, intervals plane and smooth, 

 seriate punctures on third intervals very faint, one near base 

 impinging on the fourth stria, a second a little postmedian, 

 and two others near together on the apical declivity. 



In the narrowness of the elytra, not in its contour, it 

 approximates to F. alacer, but in its less elongate legs and 

 other charecteristics it is far removed from that species. 

 Of the South-African species known to me its nearest allies 

 are F. Icetulus, Per., and P. falluciusus, Per. 



III. — Some new Species of Earthioorms belonging to the 

 Genus Glyphidrilus. By C. R. Narayan IIao, M.A., 

 University of ^Mysore, Bangalore. 



According to the published records, the following species 

 represent the family Glossoscolecidse in India : Pontoscolex 

 corethrurus, Criodrilus lacuum, C. bathybates, Glyphidrilus 

 annandalei, and G. tuberoi>us. This paper discusses four 



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