298 MR. F. E. BEDDARD ON NEW OR [May 18, 
Guinea,’ pt. ii. pl. 2, 1876), which belonged to the Museum of 
Warsaw. 
Since then only one specimen has been obtained (see Proc. Zool. 
Soe. 1883, p. 252), which is now in the British Museum, but nothing 
trustworthy has been made out as to the supposed habitat of the 
species— Waigiou (cf. Salvadori, Orn. Pap. ii. p. 646, 1851). 
Quite recently I have procured for the Dresden Museum a male 
example of this rare species, therefore the fourth, offered by a 
merchant from Amsterdam together with other Papuan birds. 
This specimen resembles exactly those figured by Gould and my- 
self, but its origin is quite as obscure as that of the other speci- 
mens. The accompanying birds being apparently of species found 
in New Guinea, and not in Waigiou, perhaps Beccari’s supposition 
(Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vil. p. 710, 1875), that this Paradise-bird 
occurs on N.W. New Guinea and Salawati, may be right. 
As it is of importance to know where type specimens are preserved, 
Ladd the history of those of Rhipidornis gulielmi-tertti described 
by myself. Having kept them in the Dresden Museum since 
the year 1875, I one day in the year 1877 received a telegram from 
van Musschenbroek, who had returned home in 1876, telling me 
that he wished to show the birds to King William III. I sent the 
specimens to him, and never saw them again. They remained in 
the hands of the king, and we never succeeded im recovering 
these types for science, though supported by the late Prof. Schlegel 
of Leyden; but after van Musschenbroek’s death in the year 1883, 
the King of the Netherlands delivered the specimens to the Museum 
of the Zoological Society (Natura artis magistra) of Amsterdam, 
where they probably will remain. 
2. Descriptions of some new or little-known Earthworms, 
together with an Account of the Variations in Structure 
exhibited by Perionyx excavatus, E.P. By Frank E, 
Bepparp, M.A., F.R.S.E., Prosector to the Society. 
[Received May 18, 1886.] 
ConTENTs. 
. Note on Pericheia indica, Horst, p. 298. 
. Pericheta horsti, n. sp., p. 800. 
. A new Species of Ludrilus, p. 302. 
. Additional note on Microcheta rappii, p. 306. 
. Remarks on the Variation of Pertonyx excavatus, p. 308. 
Oy Co ho 
1. Notre on Peritcuzra inpica, Horst. 
Pericheta, sp., Horst, Nederl. Arch. f. Zool. Bd. iv. 1879. 
Megascolex indicus, Horst, Notes from Leyden Museum, vol. v. 
p- 186. 
With the exception of Lumbricus and other forms affined to it, 
which ought perhaps to be regarded as subgenera (Allolobophora 
