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NEW RECORDS FOR BRITISH ANNELIDS. 
Rev. HILDERIC FRIEND. F.L.S., F.R.M.S., 
Swadlincote. 
DuRING no previous year has so much been done as in the 
present to advance our knowledge of the Oligochets of this 
country. This is due to the fact that the Royal Society has 
awarded me a grant from Government for the purpose of such 
investigations. The endowment of research is said by some 
to be very dangerous, and it is therefore a pleasure to be able 
to shew what may be achieved when a voluntary worker is 
aided in his heavy expenses. The present contribution is 
not intended to be exhaustive but suggestive ; the aim being 
threefold. In the first place some recent records for rare and 
little known species will be given. We shall then take some 
of the species which are new to Britain, and close with a des- 
cription of some annelids which are new to science. The 
lists will only include those names or species about which no 
doubt can any longer exist. There are a number of species 
in the writer’s possession which can only be satisfactorily 
determined after a further investigation into their character 
on the one hand, and the recent Continental literature on the 
other ; and it is felt that one had better make only such records 
as are entirely beyond dispute. 
I. SomE NEw County RECORDS. 
Nats heterocheta Benham occurs at Woodville, Derbyshire. 
Chetogaster diaphanus Gruith, found in the same county, 
in a pond at Hartshorne between Burton-on-Trent and Ashby, 
September 28th, 1g11. Nazis obtusa Gerv., same time and 
place. Also Stylaria lacustris L., which was likewise the 
dominant water worm at Sutton Broads in August. The 
same species received from Crowborough in Sussex.  Nazs 
elinguis O.F.M., taken at Kirkbride, near Carlisle, February 4th. 
Among the Tubificids we find Clitellio arenarius Miller at 
Lytham, Limnodrilus hoffmeisteri Clap. and L. udekemianus 
Clap. at Malvern, Kew, and elsewhere. L. parvus Southern 
at Repton, May 12th, adult, and near Malvern Wells ; Hetero- 
cheta costata Clap. at Lytham, as well as in the mud of the 
river Thames, along with various other species of Tubificids 
which are still under examination. My thanks are due to Mr. 
Charles Todd of Tottenham, for samples of ooze from the 
Thames, the Roding, and the Lea, which are rich in worms of 
this description. Other species will be named later. Jubifex 
templetont Southern occurs in Sutton Park near Birmingham, 
and at Welland, near Malvern. 
Lumbriculus variegatus Miller is very widely distributed, 
though, strange to say, I sought it in vain in and around the 
Sutton Broads in August. These phenomena, as Mr. R. Gurney 
1git Dec, 1. 
