08 Ml*. P. I. Lathy on the Castniinre in the 



first two attached imlopcudenlly of the liparts, to the 

 anterior suri'aee of" septa 9/10 and 10/11, and the last two to 

 the posterior face of septa 10/11 and 11/12). No prostates. 



A pair of ovaries and ovisacs in segment 13 attaclied to 

 the posterior snrface of septum 12/13. No oviduct can be 

 made out. Female oi)ening, as made out in transverse 

 sections, on segment 13 wiihin seta-space oa. 



Spermatheca not present. 



The supra-oesophagcal ganglion is in segment -4. The two 

 halves of the nerve-eord remain separate, being enclosed 

 only in a connective-tissue sheath. 



Type in the British INIuseum. 



Syntypes in the Hamburg and Indian Museums. 



Locality. — Margins of pools in the forests of Dubari, 

 Fraserpett (Coorg) ; river-beds of the Cauvery, Dubari 

 (Coorg). 



References to Literature. 



(i) Bhal Kabam Narayan. (1919.) " Nepbridia of Indian Earth- 

 worms." Q. J. M. S. vol. Ixiv. part 1 (u.s. no. 2o3). 



(2) Beddahd. F. E. (1895.) "A Monograph of the Order Ohgo- 



chaetn " (Oxford). 



(3) . (1890.) "Contributions to tbe Anatomy of Earthworms." 



Q. J. M. S. vol. XXX. (n.s.). 



(4) MiCHAKLSEN, W. (1900.) " Oligocbfeta '' in ' Das Tierreicb.' 



(5) . (ll>10.) "Die Oligochaetenffluua der vorderiudiscb-ceylon- 



ischen Kegion." Abb. Geb. Naturwiesen, Hamburg, vol. xix. 

 part 5. 



(6) . (1908.) " Tbe Olifrocbreta of India, Nepal, Ceylon, Burma, 



and tbe Andaman Islands." Mem. lud. Mus. vol. i. 



(7) Stephenson, J, (1914.) "Littoral Oligocbfeta from the Cbilka 



Lake, on tbe East Coast of India.'' l\ec. hid. Mus. vol. x. 



(8) . (1916.) " On a Collection of Oligocbajta belonging to the 



Indian Museum." llec Ind. Mus. vol. lii. 



IV. — An Account of the Castniinrc in the Collection of 

 Madame Gaston Foxirnier \^Lep{doj)tera\. By PERCY I. 

 Lathy, F.E.S. 



[Plate IV.] 



Since the appearance of M. Iloulbert's fine work on the 

 Castniinre (Etud. Lepid. Comp. xv. 1918) tho attention of 

 Le])idopterisls has naturally been turned towards this inter- 

 esting family. Mr. Talbot, in his review of this work 

 (Novitat. Zool. xxvi. pp. 28-35, 1919), and Lord Rothschild 

 {loc. cit. pp. 1-27) have already added considerably to our 



