396 Friend: Annelid Bionomics. 
Journal to some of my results from Newton Moss. At Sutton 
I endeavoured to ascertain (1) the species found, (2) the extent 
of their correspondence with and differences from those in the 
North, and (3) the relative number of individuals of each species. 
The following table is given as an illustration of the result ; 
and the point will be of greater interest still when I am able 
to work out the comparisons between Newton in Cumberland 
and Sutton in Norfolk in detail. 
At the Eel hut on the Ant where the stream from Wayford 
embouches into the Barton Broad a lump of earth was taken 
from under the willow bushes, and the Enchytr@ids examined 
one by one. The results were as follows :— 
Fridericia bisetosa Lev. ie i 
Fridericia, species new to Britain .. I 
Fridericia, species new to Britain .. I 
Buchholzia fallax Mich. 2 
Fridericia michaelseni Bret. 8 
Fridericia bulbosa Rosa II 
Fridericias, 22 out of fa Total Mtasen 2): 
This does not exhaust the number of species found, but supplies 
a clue to the forms which are most prevalent and their relative 
numbers. Does each species do the same work as all the rest, or 
does one prepare the way for the other ? 
APORRECTODEA SIMILIS Friend. 
On August 28th a visit was paid to Kew Gardens, with a 
view to deciding a number of bionomic questions, and the first 
worm which came to hand was a species which has not, so far 
as Lamaware, been found elsewhere. As it was fairly numerous 
and is evidently a regular denizen of the Gardens, a detailed 
account of the animal is here supplied. 
On May 3rd, r1g1o, I received a number of Lumbricidi 
collected in the Royal Gardens, Kew, by Mr. Free. These 
consisted of specimens of the brandling, red worm, green worm, 
submontane, and turgid worms, together with a specimen of a 
worm which is new to science. As it is in some respects very 
similar to the green worm (A porrectodea chlorotica) I have little 
doubt but that it is more common than might be supposed, 
but has hitherto been passed by as belonging to the more 
familiar species. The name which I have adopted for the new 
species is intended to draw special attention to the similarity 
with the green worm, and so lead to its more careful discrimina- 
tion in the future. 
I may first give the main external characters, and then 
shew in parallel columns wherein the species differ. As I had, 
when writing this, only a solitary example I have not dissected 
Naturalist, 
