398 Friend : 
A. similis Fr. 
Length in alcohol about 7 cm. 
Number of segments,. 180. 
Segments 5 to 8 largest and widest. 
Worm active. 
Colour yellow-grey. 
Very little, if any, mucus exuded. 
Annelid Buionomics. 
A. chlorotica Sav. 
Length in alcohol 34 to 5 cm. 
Number of segments 80 to 130. 
Segments much more uniform. 
Usually green, and very sluggish. 
“Very turbid, dirty green exudation. 
Crawls like A. caliginosa. 
Head with transverse furrow. 
Male pores invisible. 
Girdle covers 28 to 35. 
Tubercula pubertatis 30 : 32 : 34. 
Usually coiled and difficult to move. 
Head with two parallel grooves. 
Male pores on very large papille. 
Girdle covers 29 to 37. 
Tubercula pubertatis 31 
irs us So 
Mons. de Ribaucourt points out that the male pores in 4. 
chlorotica are already well developed when the tubercula puber- 
tatis make their appearance. This is a point of great interest, 
because in the specimen of A. similis from which this descrip- 
tion is drawn the male pores cannot be detected though the 
pubercula are well developed. In chlorotica the 14th to the 
16th segments are greatly swollen, and there are papilla on 
other segments in front of the girdle and male pores which are 
wanting in similis. Mature specimens of A. chlorotica were in 
the box containing the new species, and the differences in colour, 
size, and appearance were so marked that I could not confuse 
them in a living condition, though the similarity in the girdle 
and tubercula might easily lead one to confuse them if seen 
only in alcohol. 
This interesting discovery serves to shew that our earth- 
worm fauna well repays the attention which is being bestowed 
upon it. The numbers of new species which have recently 
come under my notice reveal the fact that up till the present 
our knowledge of the subject has been exceedingly imperfect. 
Readers would be rendering great service to science by 
sending specimens of Annelids from unexplored loca'ities to 
the writer. It is also particularly desirable that the ooze of our 
estuaries and rivers be examined. Four ounces of mud from 
the banks of a river might contain a dozen different species of 
rare or little known worms, which would throw a flood of light 
on Annelid bionomics. 
G. H. Verrall, the well-known 
Albert Harrison, entomologist. 
We regret to record the death of Mr. 
authority on Diptera; also of Mr. 
Tie Marsden Hall Estate has been purchased by the Nelson (Lancs.) 
Town Council, and the Hall is to be converted into a public museum and 
art gallery. 
What a wonderful place Filey must be ; 
extraordinary occurrence is recorded. .The latest, which we take from the 
daily press, is ‘a live eel, four inches long, which can only have been dropped 
there by a whirlwind, as ‘there is no connection with the w ater supply, has 
been found on the roof of a house at Filey.’ 
hardly a week passes but some 
Naturalist, 
