Prof. F. J. Bell on Lumbrici loith hijid Hinder Ends. 475 



millim. 



Total length 170 



Head 26 



Width of head 20 



, Body 69 



Fore limb 30 



1 Hindlimb 42 



Tail 75 



A single female specimen, from Delagoa Bay ; presented by 

 the South- African Museum, Cape Town. 



-V"^v Rhoptropus ocellatuSj sp. n. 



Head much depressed ; snout broadly rounded, a little 

 longer than the diameter of the orbit, as long as the distance 

 between the latter and the ear; latter rather large, elliptical, 

 oblique; forehead not concave. Head covered with flat 

 granules, largest on the snout ; rostral trapezoid, separating 

 the nasals ; nostril pierced between the first labial and two 

 nasals ; latter not swollen ; seven upper and six lower labials ; 

 mental large, subtriangular, broader than long, in contact with 

 two chin-shields ; the chin-shields graduating into the smaller 

 gular scales. Dorsal scales small, granular; ventrals much 

 larger, roundish-hexagonal, imbricate. Limbs shorter than 

 in R. qfer ; the adpressed hind limb reaches the axilla. Inner 

 digit very short, not half the length of second. An uninter- 

 rupted series of thirty-one femoral and prseanal pores in the 

 male. Grey above, with round, dark-edged, whitish spots ; 

 a rather indistinct dark line on each side of the head, passing- 

 through the eye ; lower surfaces whitish. 



millim. 



From snout to vent 35 



Head 11 



Width of head 7 



Fore limb 14 



Hindlimb 18 



A single male specimen, from Cape Town ; presented by 

 the South-African Museum. 



XLIV. — Notice of two Lumbrici with hijid Hinder Ends. 

 By Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell, M.A. 



On the 20th of June last Dr. Gtinther received from Dr. Kirk- 

 man, of Hastings, a small earthworm {Lumbricus terrestris) 

 which was remarkable for having the hinder third of its 

 body bifurcated. The figures now given are reproductions of 

 the sketches made a few days later by Mr Mintern ; they 



